{"id":131612,"date":"2020-03-11T13:49:45","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T17:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=131612"},"modified":"2020-04-03T13:47:13","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T17:47:13","slug":"the-case-of-the-missing-buds-in-librarys-lost-found-on-march-11-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2020\/03\/11\/the-case-of-the-missing-buds-in-librarys-lost-found-on-march-11-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"The case of the missing buds in the Library’s Lost & Found, March 11, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI think I\u2019m on the phone with someone\u2019s mom,\u201d said a wide-eyed Jaimin Keliihoomalu \u201921 of Kapolei, Hawaii.<\/p>\n

I had been arranging items on a low wooden table to photograph for this edition of Library Lost and Found. Nearby, studying with a friend, Keliihoomalu was taking a look at a pair of lost (but soon to be found) Bluetooth earbuds.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow do you work these?\u201d he asked before fitting them in his ears and powering them up.<\/p>\n

\"Good<\/a>

Good buds: Vidyut Yadav \u201920 of Chagrin Falls, Ohio, poses with Jaimin Keliihoomalu \u201921 of Kapolei, Hawaii, after the case of the lost ear buds was solved. (Jay Burns\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n

It was at that moment that Keliihoomalu apparently connected to someone\u2019s phone and, perhaps, to someone\u2019s mom. So Keliihoomalu quickly took the buds out, a bit abashed. But still very curious, he put them in again and powered them up again. And again he was in conversation with someone. \u201cShe asked me if I disinfected them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

In search of the other half of the paired device, he and I headed toward the nearby forest of study carrels on the first floor of Ladd. Suddenly, a student stood up, looking at his phone, clearly bewildered. He saw Keliihoomalu; they gestured a greeting to one another as he walked over.<\/p>\n

It was Vidyut Yadav \u201920 of Chagrin Falls, Ohio, and yes, he\u2019d been on the phone with his mom, Anuradha, when Keliihoomalu inadvertently cut in to the call via Bluetooth. \u201cI think these are yours,\u201d Keliihoomal said. \u201cSorry, but I put them in my ears.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s all good. Thanks, man,\u201d said Yadav, who\u2019d lost the ear buds a few days before and had tried to find them, not yet realizing there was a Lost and Found.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The earbuds no longer lost, the once-18 items became these 17:<\/p>\n