Monday, December 11, 2017

More questions to ponder on a quiet desk shift

If a kid knocks a bunch of board books off the shelf when no one is around to see, does an adult still trip over them later?


Do the patrons have mental nicknames for the staff the way I have mental nicknames for the people I see regularly but don't know the real names of? What is mine? Bad Spanish Lady?




How many total pounds of masking tape are holding all the signs, posters, etc. up? Could estimating this become a STEM program somehow?


Why is it that Patron A will come back the next day for his handwritten song lyrics he left on the copier, while Patron B left her driver's license here months ago and never returned?


How much of the square footage of the library has literally never been cleaned?


Why in the name of Elon Musk and Bill Gates do agencies still require people to FAX them things?

3 comments:

  1. I have no answers but the questions are funny

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  2. the only reason some areas of our library ever get cleaned is if someone spills something one them

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  3. At my library we found out that more than 1 patron called our oldest reference librarian the "white-haired lady"

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