As A child I SO wanted to join this bookclub.

Look what I found while doing a little research

 

Lizzie Borden's Library card

It always pays to interest a Librarian

 

It may result in small favors....

True (Library) Story

Patron: Is it ok if I water your squirrel?
Coworker: Um... what?
Patron: It's so hot, do you think it would be ok if I gave some water to the squirrel in your tree?
Coworker: Sure, if you want to, I guess that's fine.
Patron: Great, I just wanted to check because I didn't know if you guys fed him a special diet or anything.

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Librarians after dark

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Three Favorites!

Legos! Librarians & Batgirl!

Margaret's got a point!

I don't deny it.

 

He could at least put the book down!

Marian the Librarian

Alas!

It's been a little too true in my world lately.  Just sayin'.

My best side.

Since I a) work for cheap and b) was around that day,
I was asked to pose for a photo to use in our new header.

“I am what the librarians have made me with a little assistance from a professor of Greek and a few poets” - Bernard Keble Sandwell

"We need librarians more than we ever did. What we don't need are mere clerks who guard dead paper. Librarians are too important to be a dwindling voice in our culture. For the right librarian, this is the chance of a lifetime."

- Seth Godin

  Seth's Blog: The future of the library

"I cannot live without books." - Thomas Jefferson, 3rd president of US

Feb. 1, 1941. "Brooklyn Public Library (Ingersoll Memorial), Prospect Park Plaza. Librarian's desk, sharp view." 5x7 acetate by Samuel Gottscho via: SHORPY.

If someone suggested the idea of public libraries now, they’d be considered insane. If you said you were going to take a little bit of money from every taxpayer, buy a whole load of books and music and games, stick them on a shelf and tell everyone, ‘These are yours to borrow and all you’ve got to do is bring them back,’ they’d be laughed out of government.

Peter Collins, The Secret Life of Libraries

Great moments in Librarian History

To the rescue, many librarians believe computers are the only means to effectively cope with their bulging bookshelves

New York World-Telegram & Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, circa 1966

Sure they do!

I do it as often as I can!

Librarians!

Just sayin'!

How I became interested in working with books....

Alas back at work!

And it's back to business as usual! So far today, It's taken twenty minutes of bickering, cajoling and explaining to get one of my co-workers to email her computer password to our IT department so they could update her computer.

I've come back to find out a certain someone started a re-cataloging of a large amount of books without checking with me as to how to do it. As a result they are now listed wrong in the catalog and essentially unfindable on the shelves. Of course, I and /or the inefficiencies of the system will be blamed for the mistake.....

I am soooooo hitting the Tanquery tonight!

Another beautiful summer day outside, another catering work shift keeping me inside!!!! So much for summer vacation being all fun in the sun! I wonder what it's like to survive on one salary and have time for a social life? Of course that kind of fantasy only holds true on planets where they pay librarians a livable wage......