[Sca-librarians] A must-read book for all library staff

[Sorcha]

On Jan 15, 2008, Aletheia Isidora of Philae wrote:
> So how many of you get Unshelved in your email every day? Or read it
> online at http://www.unshelved.com/
> It's a comic strip set in a library - and also hysterical. Among their
> regular patrons: a nudist lawyer, a homeless guy who used the home
> improvement section to help set himself up an apartment above the
> library's drop ceiling, the hacker kid...the staff is good too: Dewey
> the YA librarian, Colleen the old-style reference librarian who taught
> her daughter to read using AACR2, Mel the director. It's a hoot!

Every day to my livejournal by RSS.  Tamara, the vegan new-age
children's librarian.  Buddy the mascot-turned-shelver.

It's nice to normalize the workday with such things.  With the things
we've found left around here (a pair of men's underwear, pornographic
magazines slipped into the stacks or under chair cushions), I never,
EVER open a closed door to a study room around here without knocking
first.  Also, can someone tell me why some patrons will eschew a
perfectly good wastebasket to throw their gum wrappers and whatnot in
the potted plant four feet away?  This is possibly my biggest library
mystery to date.

Sorcha, Outlands
Cataloger at the University of Wyoming
George W. Hopper Law Library