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

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-----Original Message-----
From: mauramc4880 at aol.com
To: lpuckett at billings.lib.mt.us
Sent: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 4:21 pm
Subject: Re: [Sca-librarians] A must-read book for all library staff



Hi,

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Its good to know that we were not the only library in which someone deposited a BM! Our unidentified poopitrator left the deposit in front of the reference desk during a very busy Sunday afternoon. The amazing thing is that there were two employees on the desk and a rom full of people, no one saw a thing until someone stepped in it!

Maura MacLeod
(somewhere in VA)


-----Original Message-----
From: Lynne Puckett <lpuckett at billings.lib.mt.us>
To: sca-librarians at lists.gallowglass.org
Sent: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 2:05 pm
Subject: Re: [Sca-librarians] A must-read book for all library staff




Sorcha wrote:
> 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
Hi, Sorcha,
Long time no see. The worst things found in the stacks here (public 
library) - a USED condom back in the Oversize 900s (yes, we're on Dewey) 
at the back of the library; one patron left a BM deposit in a chair 
(called maintenance for that one - and got rid of the chair! Ick). We 
find trash in the potted plants too; not to mention stuffed down the 
cable holes in study carrels. All our study/walled-off areas (all 3!) 
have glass walls, but that does not stop stuff going on - a pair of 
enterprising teens moved all the bean-bag chairs in the Teen area to 
behind the teen reference island stack to make a nice comfy bed, for 
purposes better left unspecified. :)
Enterprising little critters, ain't they?

Aletheia Isidora (aka Tarimaat - trying to get the registered name in 
use, bit by bit).

-- 
L. E. Puckett
Networking Systems Librarian
lpuckett at billings.lib.mt.us
Parmly Billings Library
510 North Broadway, Billings, MT 59101
http://www.billings.lib.mt.us
Ph: 406-247-8691 

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