Why the library's electric bills are so high

1. Back corners of the stacks must be brightly-lit for safety

2. As long as the elevator exists, no one uses the stairs

3. Scanners. SO many scanners.

4. No matter how many times I ask them to, staff never turn off the front desk computers at night

5. The patron who comes in with his own power strip and charges two phones, a tablet, a laptop, and a mysterious device I have yet to identify.

Oh no

I am doing a pet project of cleaning up old notes on patron records when I have downtime on the reference desk. As far as I can tell, I seem to be undoing the life's work of one of Those Old School Library Workers who felt that all things should be noted in the patron's account, period. Today I deleted someone's social security number from the notes field of their patron record.

SMH.