My Safe Haven

This blog is for those who enjoy the company of a good book and the atmosphere of a library. Enjoy.

[lezz-paul]

Shout out to librarians doing what they can to keep providing as many services digitally as possible, from putting millions of books online for the first time, to hosting community days via webinar, immediately cancelling late fees, letting this one homeless guy who reads a lot sleep nearby, etc. Without your research and free dispersal of information, we'd be a completely totalitarian society (instead of just mostly totalitarian).

[smoakingmarshmallow]

PSA

Please be kind to your public librarians. Contrary to popular belief we do not read all day. We deal with so much shit on a daily basis. Today two of my coworkers were physically threatened by a customer simply because we asked him to turn the volume down on his headphones since it was so loud that it was bothering the people around him. He lunged at my boss and threatened to punch him. It is the nice customers that make it all worth it, so please try to be one of those customers.

[smoakingmarshmallow]

PSA

Please be kind to your public librarians. Contrary to popular belief we do not read all day. We deal with so much shit on a daily basis. Today two of my coworkers were physically threatened by a customer simply because we asked him to turn the volume down on his headphones since it was so loud that it was bothering the people around him. He lunged at my boss and threatened to punch him. It is the nice customers that make it all worth it, so please try to be one of those customers.

[mienar]

commission for @enlasmontanas and @sunnybeam

[absinthundblut]

[bookporn]

The Libraries Are Appreciated, Jacob Lawrence From the Harlem series, No. 28 The Harlem Branch Library of the New York Public Library at 9 West 124th Street

[hufflepuffhaven]

[whenalibrarian]

Ermm, um, huh… so… we don’t work that way. On multiple levels.

When a librarian tries to explain why a person cannot walk into the academic library from the street, present a water bill, and check out the $150 reference collection guide to tree identification (via whenalibrarian)

[the-bookshop]

Musée Guimet’s library, Paris

[xoxohchicago]

So classy

Brooklyn Public Library

[librarianproblems]

WHEN PATRONS GIVE CREATIVE EXCUSES FOR LATE RETURNS

[gnossienne]

[paperfury-deactivated20260224]

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a girl doesn't want a husband. She wants floor-to-ceiling bookshelves and a magical cape.

[916gawd-deactivated20190411]

Reblog if you think public libraries are important and should be maintained.

[cheshirelibrary]

You know it!

[foreverlostinliterature]

[librarianproblems]

WHEN A PATRON ASSUMES WE DON’T HAVE A BOOK BECAUSE IT’S NOT ON THE SHELF