Tax dollars at work.

This was my favorite quote from the article.

But neither of those books was actually checked out from the Hayden Library on his trip. One of the books was checked out from another library, and another was stolen off the shelves. Norris refused to return the books at first, and Alexa Eccles, the executive director of the Community Library Network, told me in a phone call that, when Norris eventually returned them, the barcodes had been cut out of the book covers, and the library has not been able to return them to circulation or get new copies.

to search for the book Identical,

Does he not know how to use the Dewey decimal system? You don't have to search for books in a library, you just look them up in the catalog and then go directly to where they're displayed. Better yet, the library probably has their catalog online.