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Other uses2|Lost and FoundDablink|Lost property redirects here. For the legal concept, see Lost, mislaid, and abandoned property .Refimprove|date=August 2010A lost and found ( American English and Canadian English ), lost property ( British English ), or lost articles (also Canadian English) is an office in a large public building or area where visitors can go to retrieve lost articles that may have been found by other visitors. Frequently found at museum s, amusement park s and school s, a lost and found will typically be a clearly marked box or room in a location near the main entrance.
Some lost and found offices will try to contact the owners of any lost items if there are any personal identifiers available. Practically all will either sell, give or throw away items after a certain period has passed to clear their storage.
History
The first lost and found office was organized in Paris in 1805. Napoleon ordered his prefect of police to establish it as a central place "to collect all objects found in the streets of Paris", according to Jean-Michel Ingrandt, who was appointed the office's director in 2001.Cite news | last=Tagliabue | first=John | title=Napoleon's monument to everything | newspaper= The New York Times | date=2005-05-23 | url= http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/05/23/news/journal.php | accessdate=2007-08-07 | postscript= However, it was not until 1893 that Louis Lépine, then prefect of police, organized efforts to actively track down the owners of lost items.
Organization
Lost and found offices at large organizations can handle a large and varied collection of articles. Transport for London 's lost property offices (which handle items lost on the city's London Underground|Tube , Buses in London|buses and Hackney carriage|taxis ) handles over 130,000 items a year, including 24,000 bags and 10,000 mobile phone s. Among the more peculiar items that have been handed in include a wedding dress , ashes in an urn , a longcase clock , a kitchen sink , and several wheelchair s.cite web |url= http://www.timeout.com/london/big-smoke/features/2812/London_Underground_lost_property.html |title=London Underground lost property |work=TimeOut London |publisher= |date=2007-04-17 |accessdate=2009-03-01
Other large organizations may lack a central lost and found office but have several offices attached to different administrative units. This is the case, for instance, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign|University of Illinois , where different campus units have both distinct offices and different unofficial retention and resolution policies (rules for how long to keep items and what to do with them once that period has expired). In addition to such distributed offices, a cross-unit office might also exist; again referring to the University of Illinois, this cross-functional unit rests in the Campus Police (Division of Public Safety).cite news |author = Sharita Forest |title = Mom, Where's My Shoe? |work = Illinois Alumni, Volume 19, Issue 1 |publisher = UI News Bureau |page = 7 |date = July/August 2006
Computing
Some File_system|file systems contain a special Directory_(file_systems)|directory where Fsck|file system check places lost and potentially corrupted files when the correct location cannot be determined. Restoration may be possible but generally requires manual intervention by the system administrator .
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