Criminal librarians!
Indeed, in another "only in Florida" type situation, a library branch supervisor and assistant created a fake library card issued to "Chuck Finley" who checked out 2361 books over a nine month period.
(Note that this is not the REAL Chuck Finley, a baseball player perhaps best known for being the male victim of spousal abuse courtesy of the violent Tawny Kitaen porn star from the 80's ... best known for that and for playing some baseball, obviously.)
It turns out that there is now big brother type artificial intelligent software that will run algorithms and spit out books to cull from the stacks -- so the crafty criminal librarians made up a person (replete with fake address and ID) in order to make sure their favorite books were spared the wrath of the software gods and could stay in circulation.
The problem -- funding for public libraries often gets distributed by circulation rates, and so artificially inflated rates equal more money to spend for them but less for others, and an inspector general got an anonymous tip about the scheme.
The bottom line: trust no one -- even your local friendly (potentially sneaky) librarian!
THE CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE EXPLAINED:
http://people.com/human-interest/florida-librarians-invent-fake-patron-to-save-books-from-being-dumped/
AT LEAST IT'S NOT A LIBRARY IN AUSTIN:
http://lj.libraryjournal.com/blogs/annoyedlibrarian/2016/10/10/the-library-crime-wave-in-austin/
A CHUCK AND TAWNY REFRESHER:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/chuck-finley-strikes-back
