'Technology' Librarian

I know that I am easier to reach than the IT department is, but please be advised that the things below are not my job just because I am the Technology Librarian:

• Resetting your work computer password
• Finding you a spare extension cord
• Helping you with your personal cell phone
• Figuring out why your webcam won't work three years into the era of virtual meetings
• Replacing a clock
• Explaining to a patron why the website they want to go to is blocked just because you don't feel like breaking the bad news yourself

Antisocial behavior

Our main library is two stories and has an open staircase between the floors. Overheard around closing time just out of line of sight:

Parent: Don't do that.

Kid: Whyyy?

Parent: Because that's antisocial behavior....[pause]...would you want someone to drop a taco on YOUR head?

Still gross

 When I started this blog more than 10 years ago, I was in my early 20s and got harassed by creepy patrons ALL THE TIME. It has its own tag in the blog.

Now that I spend less time on desk and I'm in my 30s, it's been literal years since it's happened to me. But today I was filling in at a branch and doing a 'roam' around the public floor and a very Anglo-looking patron said "Hola" to me. Being polite, I said it back, but when he followed up with "¿Como estás?" after I'd already passed him, I pretended I didn't hear and just kept walking. I was not at all surprised when he said "damn, that ass!" as I was not quite out of earshot.

The sexual harassment is much less nerve-wracking than it was when I was young, but it was still exactly as gross.