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The author offers advice for librarians when books are not returned by library patrons. He mentions that any school library that actively circulates books will have patrons who lose or take library books. He mentions a quote by Henry Miller from his "Books of My Life" about a book. He also relates the primary motivation for many librarians who lament the number of lost books.

The article offers a guide for school librarians to putting up a pop-up library aimed at engaging students who are reluctant to read and who do not regularly visit the library. Topics covered include the steps involved in establishing a pop-up library, promoting the pop-up library via Instagram or Twitter, and the feedback received by a school librarian to the pop-up library she opened in unexpected places on campus.