A gobbit from Roy Hattersley's Endpiece column in the Guardian of 28th January 1984.

"Librarian Larkin presided over the shelves and stacks of Hull even in that university's paleolithic period when I was a student there, and I often experienced the austere wrath which he directed at constant return-date dafaulters.
Even in these pre-promiscuous days , in the University of Hull keeping a girl out all night was safer than doing the same to a book. In the Brynmore-Jones Library, the safest course of all was to take half of Polonius's advice and never a borrower be."