Another new job

 I am moving libraries yet again. My new job is not going to be public-facing, so I'm afraid I may be starved of blog material for quite some time! I know I didn't have much time to post to the blog as manager of Walnut Bluff so hopefully people aren't checking this too often/any disappointment has already been experienced. I will certainly keep posting highlights, they are just likely to be infrequent.

Ironically given how I am a mega-grinch, one of my last acts at Walnut Bluff was to put up a big "Season's Readings" display in the library windows. At least I got a pun in.

Still confused

 We now have two large A-frame signs outside our front doors that patrons have to basically squeeze past to reach the doors themselves. The signs say "CLOSED. Curbside pickup only, call 1-800-WALNUT-BLUFF." Of course, people being people, they often squeeze past the signs and pull on the door handle, at which point our front door person (whose job is supposedly delivering curbside pickups as cars arrive) has to shout the information to them. Most people get it at that point. However, today I had a couple who were still confused. They asked me "What kind of appointments do you guys do?" and when I answered "You can come pick up books or movies or printouts!" they replied, "Wait, so you can't come inside and look at books?"

When I relayed this conversation to Children's Librarian, she said, "I think people have been spending too much time in their houses watching TV and they don't know how to interact with real people anymore. They're like 'This one is talking back to me when I talk to it! What am I supposed to do!?'"