Sunday, December 8, 2024

Librarian Low Points (part 3)

 Spotting That Patron in a non-work context and having to hide.

 Working really hard on a program and then no one comes.

While browsing in the bookstore, you suddenly realize you're mindlessly straightening the shelves and fixing mis-shelved items instead of looking for things you are interested in reading.

Stumbling across a statistic about how much the average person with a masters' degree makes.

Spending your whole budget for the Dewey 300s on replacing the branch's copies of The 48 Laws of Power and Anne Rule books instead of getting to buy new titles.

At work on time

 Pulling holds near the computer area this morning, I observe a patron come in at 9:00 AM sharp, then make his way straight to the vending machine, the printer coin box, and the fax machine coin box and feel around in the coin return of each one. You can tell he does this every day