#library problems

[conservethis]

Someone keeps shelving books backwards at my work and I keep finding them somehow.

[esperata]

Since this seems to be an issue causing more arguments lately,

do you think it's okay to take your shoes off in a public library?

yes

no

Voting ended onJul 26, 2024

No nuance, we die like men

[grey-gazania]

I saw this funny screencap from the new Superman movie and sent it to my dear friend @championoftheoppressed, who suggested that it would make a great meme template. And she was right! So I was inspired to whip one up for the kids at my library:

[leche-flandom]

Aw man I'm stuck in the library elevator and the emergency phone doesn't work and I can't contact the campus police. It's hot.

[thelightwillbreakthrough]

chat which thing i’ve seen a patron do recently is worse

i deserve emotional and financial compensation for these!!!

open mouth cough over their baby’s stroller

use their own hand to cover their coughing child’s mouth*

sneeze over, possibly on, a newspaper **

cough into their hand, then hand in their returns***

Voting ended onNov 26, 2024

*the child did in fact appear old enough to be told to cover their own mouth

**not even their newspaper they brought to read, one of ours. meant for everyone

***with their returns they were also carrying. a box of covid tests

[samayla]

I am so so so sore today.

After weeding the past three years, we had two empty shelves at the head of our elementary fiction section. We also had several shelves in that section that had no more room for new arrivals. I shuffled all the elementary chapter books down to make room in those tight sections. And then I did the opposite in the high school fiction, which had some shelves with just 10-12 books on them. I condensed that down to create an open shelf at the end of the aisle for new arrivals in that section.

I moved every chapter book we own. And crawled on the floor through most of it because 90% of my patrons are tiny people who need low shelves.

*cries in librarian*

[bandtobooks]

Nevermind, I had a much better day and feel like I can hold out for a while longer.

[africanmorning]

I had a very mentally taxing day at work yesterday.

Someone returned a Cat in the Hat themed board game, which, among other things, includes a set of pieces referred to as "playthings."

Now, the patron just so happened to have returned the game missing the "ball plaything" specifically, so I had to fill out a little form about the missing "ball plaything" and then send them an email to let them know they had forgotten to return the "ball plaything" with the rest of the game and to please bring the "ball plaything" back if they found it.

Later, the patron called back to say that they did not know where the "ball plaything" was and would not be able to return it, so then I had to fill out another form that said that the patron was unable to find the "ball plaything" and ask tech services if we would need to charge the patron for the missing "ball plaything."

I had to do all of this with professionalism, and it was very difficult and I very nearly failed, but I managed to pull through in the end.