#library instruction

[whenalibrarian]

I resist the urge to cast our library tutorials to random peoples' devices, though every cell in my body tells me to do it.

When a librarian encounters a unique answer to the library classroom survey question, how do you resolve conflicts when you find additional available devices on the wifi network?

[whenalibrarian]

Now I have time to take the cat to the vet, so win-win.

When a librarian is asked if she minds taking a late morning to do a night-time instruction session, and she can’t think of a way to say it’s actually great for her

[whenalibrarian]

Trigger Warning and the Smell of Falling Oak Leaves

When a librarian is trying to teach a new class and the campus warning system suddenly blares its weekly test pattern through the library’s windows on the last day the library can open the windows for bright late autumnal sun.

[whenalibrarian]

Ma... Ma.... Ma Ma MA  MAMAMAMAMA

When a librarian is full-on angry mothering people who said they’d sign up for instruction, didn’t show up, and now what to know where the recorded version is.

[whenalibrarian]

There’s No Crying in Instruction!!

When a librarian is cruelly rebuffed by a student during a lesson, but as the class oohhss and aahhhsss his sass, she sees one of her colleagues gesture through the window of the door. 

[whenalibrarian]

Not To Be Offensive, But

When a librarian uses the Lord of the Rings fandom to relate library search tools and services to particular specialties in the field. 

[whenalibrarian]

Stale Memeage

When a librarian wonders why a prof only gives a slight smile at the joke, before realizing that she’s told the same joke to the same professor’s class for eight consecutive semesters running.

[whenalibrarian]

Lick It! LICK IT!

When a librarian finds students initially disgusted by “book tasting” -- which is an activity meant to produce book reviews on menu cards, not actually ask the students to digest library pulp products.