You might think he would have more on his mind. You might think going to the inauguration, or walking on the pre-game Super Bowl field would have gone to his head. But no, do you know what was on the mind of the hero pilot who brought his jetliner down into the Hudson River? A lost library book that also found its way to the Hudson in the cargo-hold of the plane. That’s right, US Airways pilot Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger got in touch with his local library because the library book he borrowed via Inter-Library Loan (ILL) went down with the ship. He asked for the overdue fines to be waved and for an extension but library officials went a step further. Not only did the library forgive his overdue fines, they dropped the lost book fine and are now dedicating the replacement book to him. Check out the article from the Philadelphia Inquirer. As a librarian I plan to tell this story to my students because I am as impressed as the librarians where he borrowed the book at his sense of responsibility and hope my students are impressed too. Oh by the way, the subject of the book borrowed was professional ethics. Nice.
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