(OK, maybe it wasn’t THIS dusty, but it was kinda nasty under there….cool photo by Oslo In the Summertime).
Spring cleaning fever has hit the library and we cleaned out the various shelves and cubbies around the Reference Desk.
Besides the chewed pencil stubs (eeew!) and copulating rubberbands (look away!), I also found some old papers from [...]
Posts Tagged ‘kids’
Found Under the Reference Desk
Posted in Daily Life, Library, librarians, libraries, tagged dusty, kids, Library, poem, reference desk, writing on April 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Two Wrongs and a Sad Third
Posted in Library, tagged kids, librarians, Library, that's just wrong on September 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Two very wrong situations at the library recently:
1.) A young boy comes running in and heads for the new children’s books. He is followed by his annoyed grandmother who yells, “NO BOOKS! You can’t get any books, only videos!”
Poor little kid. He got the short straw for a grandparent. (I should note that this [...]
Pass the Drugs, Please Mom
Posted in Random, tagged depression, kids, medication, scary on April 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
From a drawing by Fred Bernard. Reproduced in “The Dickens Country” by kind permission of Messrs. Chapman and Hall. www.fromoldbooks.org
Watched a disturbing PBS Frontline show tonight about kids on heavy duty depression drugs called The Medicated Child. There are children four years old being diagnosed with bipolar disorder and being given huge amounts of medication [...]
