Tuesday, June 6, 2023

Librarian low points (part 2)

  • Seeing one of your problem patrons push his way in just as the library is closing (contributed by an anonymous commenter)
  • Keeping an ugly, outdated book in your collection area because it's the only one you have.
  • Using painstaking, by-hand labor to do something that should be done by printing technology that your library system is too cheap to pay for (coloring in a black-and-white printout, taping together multiple sheets of paper to make a poster, etc.)
  • The first time someone says "You're a librarian? It must be so nice to get paid just to read books!" and you don't even bother to explain, you just say "Uh huh."
  •  Labeling an office supply with your own name. You're one of Them now.

2 comments:

  1. When I was working on my PhD in library science, someone once asked me, in all seriousness, "how much is there to know about putting books on the shelf?"

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