Posted in Library, tagged asshats, librarian, Library, reference desk on July 10, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Because I wanted to slap some people today.
A nice, solid smack upside the head.
#1: A guy walks up to the Reference Desk (no, this is not the start of a joke…if only it was, people…if only it was… 
and asks about a certain movie. He wants to watch Putney Swope. As I am looking it [...]
Posted in Library, Random, tagged copyright, Elvis has left the building, Library, pictures on July 3, 2008 | No Comments »
I had one of those odd days where two completely different patrons asked me the same obscure copyright question about a hour apart. While I was looking up the answer online at www.copyright.gov I found out something even more odd:
Apparently, so many freaks people have bothered the U. S. Copyright Office about how to copyright their sightings of [...]
Posted in Library, tagged boy wonder, librarian, Library, wow on June 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
(You just KNOW Freud would have had a field day with this illustration!)
I had two very different conversations with two kids this week at the library. They went a little like this:
Conversation #1:
After a program, I am looking at some children’s books we had set out with a boy in 4th grade. He is [...]
Posted in Library, tagged babies, Library, music, that's just wrong on June 15, 2008 | No Comments »
(Yes, I’m still listening to kid music Cd’s since I am a children’s librarian and need to use this stuff for programs… In a previous post, I had mentioned the very odd music Cd’s and videos from Mother Goose Rocks.
Well, now we have another series of odd music for kiddies: Rockabye Baby!
They take popular artists and [...]
Posted in Daily Life, Library, tagged recorder, three blind mice, Hell, Aaaag! on May 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’ve been making the rounds of the local elementary schools, talking up the summer reading club.
On one school visit, I passed a classroom where a teacher was bellowing out, “A, G, F….!” repeatedly as her class of 23 grade schoolers were all blowing unmusically on recorders. All I could think of was, “What horrible thing [...]
Posted in Library, tagged changes, computer troubles, computer whisperer on May 4, 2008 | 4 Comments »
–Yes, the blog looks different. I’m experimenting with a new format, so it may change again.–
While I do enjoy the benefits that computers have brought to the library (quick searching, databases, book editing) for librarians, I am also wistfully wishing for those times when you didn’t have to deal with endless computer questions.
Because it’s not [...]
Posted in Library, tagged C is for Cookie;library;reference desk;librarian;Can YO on April 29, 2008 | No Comments »
I used to wonder why all the librarian blogs were so snarky…was there no joy in librarianship? Now I know better! And it only took me four months behind the reference desk, too.
We had a patron much like the one below today. And this is not an isolated event…
Posted in Library, Uncategorized, tagged librarian, Library, reference desk, young and nasty on April 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
(…unless you are Ewan McGregor, Joaquin Phoenix or Viggo Mortensen…then, by all means, give us some luv darling!)
Ran across one of the funniest videos celebrating National Library Week called “Reference Desk.”
Yes, these questions all sound familiar! I think this guy comes in twice a week at our branch…
Check out all the others here: http://alfocus.blip.tv/posts?view=archive&nsfw=dc
Posted in Library, tagged librarian, Library, stupid on April 11, 2008 | 3 Comments »
(royalty-free stock image but visit www.fromoldbooks.org anyway, OK?)
So, I am three months into the whole librarian gig and not a fresh-faced kid anymore (can you really be fresh at 39, anyway?). I still like it but I can, indeed, see why some people get burned out.
While I knew there would be weirdos, as I have [...]
Posted in Amphibians, Insect, Library, tagged amphibian, bugs, children's books, endangered, frogs, gopher frog, Insect, Mo Willems, toys on March 28, 2008 | No Comments »
I happened to look at the Yahoo article on the endangered Mississippi gopher frog… and then did some more searching and found this interesting article from the Georgia area Nature Conservancy.
Check out what a gopher frog sounds like here. Hmmm…are we sure they didn’t just tape my husband sleeping? ;-p
Best of all: they glow!
“Before they [...]
