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From: mauramc4880@aol.com<br>
To: lpuckett@billings.lib.mt.us<br>
Sent: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 4:21 pm<br>
Subject: Re: [Sca-librarians] A must-read book for all library staff<br>
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<div>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!<br>
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Maura MacLeod<br>
(somewhere in VA)<br>
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From: Lynne Puckett <<A href="mailto:lpuckett@billings.lib.mt.us">lpuckett@billings.lib.mt.us</A>><br>
To: <A href="mailto:sca-librarians@lists.gallowglass.org">sca-librarians@lists.gallowglass.org</A><br>
Sent: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 2:05 pm<br>
Subject: Re: [Sca-librarians] A must-read book for all library staff<br>
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<div id=AOLMsgPart_0_043359fe-4b44-434d-822e-ef2fa0d7f1c9 style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; MARGIN: 0px; COLOR: #000; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff"><PRE style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><TT>Sorcha wrote:
> Every day to my livejournal by RSS. Tamara, the vegan new-age
> children's librarian. Buddy the mascot-turned-shelver.
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> 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).
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L. E. Puckett
Networking Systems Librarian
<A href="mailto:lpuckett@billings.lib.mt.us">lpuckett@billings.lib.mt.us</A>
Parmly Billings Library
510 North Broadway, Billings, MT 59101
<A href="http://www.billings.lib.mt.us/" target=_blank>http://www.billings.lib.mt.us</A>
Ph: 406-247-8691
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