The Foulmouthed Librarians

shhh...tfu

[eatsleepcrap]

the downside being???

[foulmouthedlibrarians]

Clearly, our entire staff needs to find a way to make this reality.

[thatadult]

Sesame Street has Rosita (a green Mexican American resident of Sesame Street) on here talking about how all books she has to read about Mexican people are exactly the same. She’s like “they are always taking a rest by a cactus with a donkey and a sombrero” (she said it in Spanish!!!) and that they’re stereotyping Mexican people and not reflective of their real experiences. She said “there’s so much more to being Mexican!” and now she’s about to write her own story “Me Amigita Rosita”!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And they have an Afro-Latino guy talking to her about it and helping her! Sesame Street is so fucking good!!!!!!!!

[americanlibraryassoc]

Reading literary fiction improves empathy, study finds

[foulmouthedlibrarians]

New research shows works by writers such as Charles Dickens and Téa Obreht sharpen our ability to understand others’ emotions – more than thrillers or romance novels

[tellyitzyaboutme]

Very into this

[foulmouthedlibrarians]

I OWN THIS SHIRT.

(um...)

[osyal]

TRYING TO ADVISE STUDENTS WHOSE PROJECTS DEPEND ON U.S. GOVT. DATABASES

[mistyautumn]

I WOULD APOLOGIZE, BUT I AM NOT SORRY. LIKE… AT ALL.

[foulmouthedlibrarians]

Remember children, Try to take over the world in a more gradual manner, or else you too will be reading from the Prison library.

[replore]

[osyal]

WHEN THEY INTRODUCE ME TO THE BACKLOG

[idea-lab]

[foulmouthedlibrarians]

Office Discussions

Boss: Is this some weird Scandinavian dessert?

Co-worker: Nah, it's french, you can tell because of the 10 tablespoons of butter.

[osyal]

WHEN A JOB DESCRIPTION CONTAINS THE PHRASE “SECOND MASTERS DEGREE”

[foulmouthedlibrarians]

AND THEN APPLY ANYWAY, BECAUSE SOMEONE WITH A SECOND MASTERS WILL PROBABLY WANT TO BE PAID MORE THAN THEY ARE OFFERING AND YOU MIGHT GET THE JOB BECAUSE THEY ARE CHEAP AS FUCK.

[soulbrotherv2]

All lost in a book.  Another image that will never make it into the mainstream media.

[husssel]

This is DC!!!!!!!!!

[runjuliet-deactivated20150527]

The “retreat,” in which we forgo meeting in our library’s conference room to meet in another library’s conference room.

[sslibrarianship]

Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman Probably Had Sex Once

[foulmouthedlibrarians]

I don’t know what else to tell you. Oscar Wilde almost definitely had sex with Walt Whitman.

WELL, THIS MADE MY DAY BETTER.

[elliespring]

You're Older Than the Internet?

I stand by the fact that nothing will make you feel ancient at the age of 30 like working with the under twelve population. These kids simply can’t fathom how old I am and what being a kid was like way back in the *gasp* nineties. These conversations often take the form of the following homework interaction.

10 year old: Miss Ellie I Googled it but nothing came up. I’m just going to tell my teacher I couldn’t find anything.

Me: Let me help you search and if we can’t find it online we’ll just have to use the encycolopedia.

10YO: [blank stare]

Me: You know, when I was your age I couldn’t use Google to do my homework.

10YO: Did your parents take your internet away?

Me: No, we didn’t have internet.

10YO: So like where did you go if you needed to use Google?

Me: Nowhere. There was no Google. It didn’t exist yet.

10YO: YOU’RE OLDER THAN THE INTERNET?!?

[iworkatapubliclibrary]

Good, Not

4-year-old [regretfully]: “Miss Ann, I don’t think we will be coming to story time much anymore.”

Me: “Oh really? Why?”

4-year-old [sighing]: “Well, the snacks aren’t good.”

Me: “We don’t have snacks at story time!”

4-year-old: “I know and that’s not good.”

[osyal]

WHEN A PATRON ASKS ME TO HELP THEM DO SOMETHING THAT OBVIOUSLY BREAKS COPYRIGHT LAWS