The library serves the whole community of borrowers like a safe place in all weather at any time. Outdoor borrowers spend their winters here.
Sneaking in through the book drop
“It’s okay, everyone borrows here, even the Beans!” “Yeah, but they pay taxes…”
Traveling around freely during the day without being seen, despite how busy it is, because there’s all the shelving and such to hide behind. They can run behind all of the books.
There’s also no beans on sundays and major business holidays (and staff in-services)
They learn a lot by watching programs/classes from their hiding spots
The huge kid program days are hell though. 100s of kids running around, screaming, knocking everything over. The borrowers all hide back in the staff areas with a stash of emergency food for just such an occasion.
There’s been some mishaps when a novice borrower was too close to the children’s play area and had to go limp and fake being a doll. It works great unless the child decides to play with you!! Stay out of that area at all costs
There’s not as much food to borrow without it being noticed, but there is stuff in the staff room, and people bring in free donuts for each other all the time. Some programs and special events provide more opportunity for food to be snuck away
Don’t borrow from the kits! The poor staff works hard to keep track of all the parts, and they don’t want anything going missing and think it’s lost and having to remove the kit from the system
Almost all of the books are too big to read, but a clever borrower discovered one night that they could use the staff CD player to play audiobooks at night and during the holidays when the beans aren’t around. Some fave stories are (literally) “The Borrowers” and “The Littles” because they’re so relatable
They can do the same with DVDs and video games. They just have to be sure they put the item back where they found it before opening in the morning.
One time a borrower accidentally ended up in one of the puppet pack bags and getting checked out to a patron. Seriously, CAREFUL GUYS
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