tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90985342024-03-14T00:25:10.663-05:00Librarian IreLibrarians, who after years of torment by the incompetent masses, have become very testy. Circulation is not a place for the faint hearted. Heck, libraries aren't as a whole. Arm yourselves!Nikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07786732234227890710noreply@blogger.comBlogger315125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9098534.post-1141407510463241852010-12-05T11:33:00.000-06:002010-12-05T17:39:08.079-06:00Things that make you go Grr."Hey. Can I ask you a question?" A phrase that makes me want to just walk away. When a patron sidles up to the desk, uttering that oh-so retorical phrase, you know there is going to be trouble. Inevitably, what follows is the stupidest question in all of librarianland.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9098534.post-823765787581197982010-10-15T21:13:00.000-05:002010-12-08T21:22:08.428-06:00I'm good, but not psychicI was so hoping for a good Sunday student worker. Alas, like men, all the good ones are taken.<br />We were forced to hire a new Sunday student worker because the last ones graduated. Funny how that happens.<br /><br />Being the kind, gentle and understanding library person I am, I give them a few weeks to adjust to the wild world of Sunday librarianship.<br /><br />So it's the 4th week now and I give him a few ILL requests to look for and came back telling me he couldn't find them but 'he skimmed the carts.' Hmm, not exactly promising. <br />Now someone can't find a book needed for a class. So we promise to look for it and let the patron know.<br />Guess who got to look? Yep, Mr. Skimmer. He came back saying "I didn't see it, but I skimmed the carts."<br />I know the book is there, since I checked it in myself. He wants to know what cart it is on. <br /><br />What am I, clairvoyent? That's why we hired you. To look, not skim the carts. Sigh.Nikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07786732234227890710noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9098534.post-31968327667122780752008-06-06T09:50:00.000-05:002008-06-06T11:35:20.832-05:00Broken lights or we're just messin' with ya.One of our closing rituals is to blink the lights to warn people we are closing. We've been doing this for about 10 or so years. Probably longer. <br />It's not a surprise to anyone who spends a lot of time here. Or so I thought. Ah the pool of stupidity is endless and vast.<br /><span style="color:#33cc00;">Celery</span><span style="color:#33cc00;"> woman</span> appeared while we were blinking. She's a part time student here. Spends enough time here at night to be reasonably aware of things. But she asked me why we didn't get the lights fixed so that they don't blink like that. "Because it's very disruptive when you're studying downstairs." <br />Uh yeah. That's the point. I explain that we do that to warn people we are going to be closing in a few minutes and they have to leave.<br />She stares at me and walks away. Not out of the library mind you. She went back downstairs. <br /><br />Now this is the same woman who while standing in front of the bathroom actually asked me where it was. <br />How she survived this long is beyond me.Nikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07786732234227890710noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9098534.post-4572946690687399252008-04-22T20:02:00.000-05:002008-04-22T21:28:18.027-05:00Security gate woesOur security gate has been stepping up it's war against me. It has recruited some students to slowly break my will.<br />It was bad enough when it'd just go off. It would beep and then lock. There isn't anyone around, no books to pass through. It could be some ghost or poltergeist. It's a better explanation than what the security company told us. Sometimes these things happen. <br />I keep a record of these assaults on my sanity. Well, for later. You never know....<br />Not much I can do about the students. <br />The one that stands out is the woman who tried to return her books. She attempted to leave the library to place all her books in the book drop on the outside of the library. In order to return books to the library. <br />With staff at the desk waiting to help her.<br />She explains that she wants to return her books. Okay. We unlock the gate and she <span style="color:#cc0000;"><strong>tries again</strong></span><span style="color:#000000;"> to leave to return her books!!!!!</span><br />Finally I just tell her leave them.Nikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07786732234227890710noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9098534.post-1159384113914938392008-03-05T14:05:00.000-06:002008-03-06T18:27:35.696-06:00Sad caseHad a student come to my office to "help" her. She had been in the previous day and been helped by someone and apparantly that help didn't stick. Anyway, she didn't have a copy of a book needed for her class. The bookstore was backordered. Anyway, she was quite upset that the only copy of the book on campus was in our reserves collection (for that class).<br /><br />Apparantly, this "wasn't fair" that it was on reserve because she needed it.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9098534.post-29728191543673193022008-03-04T18:28:00.000-06:002008-03-06T18:44:13.969-06:00InterruptionsI just love it when I'm trying to help someone and they keep interrupting while I'm answering their vitally important question.<br />Mind you they interrupted <span style="color:#cc0000;"><strong>me </strong></span><span style="color:#000000;">doing something vitally important. </span><br />Case in point. A female patron comes in and says "I asked for something to be delivered here for me."<br />Oookay. Thanks for the information. <br />So she's standing there staring at me. I am using my incredible library powers to discern that the book is on the shelf waiting for you.<br />I ask her name and she says, <span style="color:#009900;">Helen of Troy</span>, like I should have recognized her instantly. Oh of course! Who?<br />Now Helen is back. She wants to know where the PA's are. I don't get the full sentence out before she interrupts to say "they are near the BR's right?<br />Uh no, not exactly. We do have a lot of other books between the B's and the P's in stacks. Blame the alphabet for that one.Nikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07786732234227890710noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9098534.post-23567603144216287962008-02-17T20:51:00.001-06:002008-02-21T18:08:53.188-06:00A new insult record!Had a patron break the insult record lately. I couldn't decide if I wanted to award him or kill him. Three insults in about 8 minutes.<br /><br />He had been sent over to the library(first trip by the by) to get a specific edition of a book for his boss. <br />First of all he didn't know the title. He did however know the editor's name. But he told me it was the author's name.<br />I finally find it, by using the call number which he also had, yet didn't think was useful.<br />I see that someone had returned it in the last few days. We invite him to look on the shelving cart, and he pulls the wrong book. He found the 2006 edition.<br />Which isn't the right translation.<br />Here comes <span style="color:#ff0000;">insult number 1</span>. The library is wrong. How could they have made such a huge mistake as to catalog an English translation as a Greek one! It's a travesty. He shoves it in my face TWICE, probably in order illustrate his point. But really just annoying me. At this point I have to help him to shut him up.<br /><br />I doublecheck on the screen and see that the book he has is a different call number and a different edition as well as a different barcode.<br />I tell him he has the 2006 edition. Then he looks over the cart again and WOW there it is.<br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">Insult number 2</span> was the comment in order to find things here, you have to know what you are doing to find things here. Meaning of course HE knew what he was doing and no one else did.<br />Then <span style="color:#ff0000;">insult number 3</span> was if I know how to check books out to him. He's lucky he made it out of the library alive at that point. I thought about hitting him, but the boss was in her office and she would have seen.<br />And the rule is NO WITNESSES!Nikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07786732234227890710noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9098534.post-19350975548072697182008-02-09T17:44:00.000-06:002008-02-10T20:52:13.850-06:00SSSSHHHHH!!!I mean it this time. Shut up!!!!!<br />I don't care that you have run out of milk, or you need to buy a car, or your fiancee is stuck at the airport on stand-by and won't be home to feed your pet lizard or whatever.<br />Turn the *%$#!! cell phone <strong>off.</strong> <br />We here in the library have no interest in your life and all the jetsam that you are currently broadcasting. <br />And don't give me those dirty looks when I ask you to move it outside. I'll bet you no one else cares either and are relieved someone kicked you out.Nikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07786732234227890710noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9098534.post-68179261816343914752008-02-06T18:45:00.001-06:002008-02-06T19:08:44.044-06:00We're backI bet you thought we had given up or went for therapy, as there has been no Ire for quite some time.<br />Call it a sabbatical. Now we might not have a book or papers but we have observed the habits and rituals of the library users. Both the wild and domesticated.<br />So watch the space.<br /><br />And here's the LI contribution to the Vampire Librarian's meme. <br /><em>"A man is not poor because he has not provided for the morrow. If we only remember what quantity of food the sea full of fish offers, on whose contents each man in Catholic Naples is bound by his religion to feed one day of the week; how profusely all sorts of fruit and garden stuffs are to be found there at every season; how the country wherein Naples lies, has the name of Terra di Lavoro, (not of Labor but of Husbandry), and the whole province has borne the honorable title of the Happy Country (Campagna Felice) now for centuries, we will see how easily one may live there. </em><br /><em>One who has lived here long would see that the Lazzarone is not a whit more idle than the other classes, but would also perceive that all in their way labor not merely to live but to enjoy, and that they are quite free from the labor for living."</em> The Early lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson v.IINikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07786732234227890710noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9098534.post-59153279867639029382007-05-25T12:02:00.000-05:002007-05-25T12:07:52.343-05:00What is youth coming to?This would fall into the category of "stupidity ire"<br /><br /><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2007/EDUCATION/05/25/stanford.imposter.ap/index.html">Silly Article</a><br /><br />If you read the article carefully, one of the students who agreed to let this woman stay in her room and knew the woman was coming in through the window is 'upset at the security at the university'.<br /><br />If Stanford were to ask me I'd suggest evicting this student from the university. If she's dense enough to just agree to let some women stay in her room & <span style="font-weight:bold;">then</span> blame the university she shouldn't be at a school of that academic quality.<br />Oy.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9098534.post-45055403109179699412007-04-15T20:58:00.000-05:002007-04-17T22:59:06.794-05:00Communication is keyYeah, we all know this. It's one of those buzz phrases. What you say, how you say it and to whom.<br />Apparently it hasn't filtered down to those lower on the totem pole of life yet. (and that's not exactly what I wanted to say)<br /><br />Like Miss Attitude. She hasn't figured it out yet.<br /><br />A week ago the phone rang at the desk and since I thought she was at the desk I didn't pick up. Until the fourth ring. Apparently she had better things to do than man the desk. But she doesn't bother to warn anyone that they are on their own. This was the last straw.<br /><br />The best illustration of this annoying little habit happened a few weeks ago. I had just gotten a chance to finally take a coffee break. So I told her that's what I was doing. I actually used her name and said the following words. "I'm going on my break, I'll be back," and then she wanders away from the desk before the echo faded.<br /><br />We are headed for a showdown. And the attitude will not be on her side.Nikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07786732234227890710noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9098534.post-60250338319096232842007-04-13T18:13:00.000-05:002007-04-14T17:18:32.555-05:00More Miss AttitudeNow I now all of you have been wondering if there have been more Velmaesqe (Velma-ish?) traits sighted recently.<br />Two have surfaced.<br />Miss Attitude like to show off her musical talent. She does this by telling everyone how good she is at playing her horn.(Ironic isn't it?) She has been using this as an excuse lately to miss shifts.<br />Also she gets all fired up about stupid news items. She spent nearly 10 minutes arguing about some experiment conducted in a subway recently. And how that proves that our culture is doomed, because people during rush hour won't stop to participate.<br />I thought it was funny actually. Well, more ironic than funny. She was horrified.<br />Neither she nor Velma could see the humor in things like these.Nikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07786732234227890710noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9098534.post-15502796967751393662007-04-05T11:31:00.000-05:002007-04-05T13:36:58.277-05:00Swear. To.... Joel.If one more person emails me that cartoon with the chocolate bunnies my head will explode! Its the equivalent of getting those weekly sale flyers in the mail.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9098534.post-1171324253791182082007-02-12T17:49:00.000-06:002008-02-06T18:44:28.372-06:00CreepyIf I didn't know better I'd swear it was Hallowe'en.<br />We are getting some real creepy patrons here lately.<br />The first one is the crazy bandanna lady from last summer. She back using our computers. Now we have good hardware and some great research software. But I don't think that's the draw for her. She asked me about a specific church run school that supposedly is 'nearby'. She wanted to know everything I knew about them. I had no idea. I looked up the name she gave me in the phone book. Wasn't there. On the internet the only thing that came up was somewhere out West. She immediately knew that was wrong. No kidding.<br />But she's positive that she's got the name of the school right. Well, I gave her the names and addresses listed in the phone book that were close.<br />The second guy is even odder. Comes in every afternoon and hogs a computer. A very snazzy totally loaded deal. If he hangs around when the computer lab is 4 deep, some students are going to be very cranky.<br />He 'says' he's studying some Eastern religion, and likes our book collection. But no one has ever seen him in the stacks, just the computer lab. Not to mention he always blocks anyone's view of the screen when they come in.<br />He's never bothered anyone. So far. But he's creepy.Nikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07786732234227890710noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9098534.post-1170731562900637082007-02-05T20:44:00.000-06:002007-02-05T21:21:41.916-06:00Miss AttitudeSo here we are in the new semester.<br />All in all I can't complain about my new student workers. Except one. Of course there's always one.<br />Anyway Miss Attitude is not what you'd call a ball of fire. She could sit and study and do her e-mail from the time she gets here until the time she leaves. Not exactly what we are paying you for dear. <br />Hey, I could keep you busy from the time you get here until the time you leave. So watch it!<br />More than once I've had to remind her to do some very basic circ things such as printing the paging requests, reserve policy, and my personal favorite shelving. Stuff I know she knows, since she's worked here nearly a year now. <br />While she doesn't like <strong>to work</strong> when she's here she also doesn't like to take breaks or leave. Once I found her sitting behind the circ desk in the shelving area. When I asked her if she was all right(I first thought she was sick or something) she told me she was fine. She didn't bother to get up, even though it was sort of obvious I needed to move the ranges. I asked her what she was doing there. She then told me she was on her break. I pointed out she was 1) not allowed to sit in the stacks behind the desk and 2) not allowed to take her break while still behind the desk. And 3) she was in my way. And yes, I did say all of this nicely.<br />She didn't get it at all. Oh, she did get up and move, but waited until I was finished and sat back down on the floor in between the shelves.<br />She's very odd. I had to explain to her the concept of a required break recently. <br />But the reason I christened her Miss Attitude is that when I do ask her to do something she gets defensive. She will put it off until I have to ask her again. Or ask for an update. Then she sighs give me a look like she wants to challenge me and reluctantly leaves the desk. She will take a long time to do the task assigned to her.<br />There is a slight but scary resemblence to Velma, one of our previous circ assistants. We shall keep you posted if any more character traits pop up.Nikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07786732234227890710noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9098534.post-1167965712127661772007-01-05T14:38:00.000-06:002007-04-12T21:55:53.406-05:00Anger and Rage in ILL v.3And here's the finale.<br />After sending the very polite e-mail about how to use the catalog to the Dud(e) I get another request for something that we own.<br />This time I cancel the request, send my regular "We don't do this" e-mail. And page it from where it lives. It was not in our stacks.<br />So a few days later the Dud(e) comes in and says, I got this e-mail saying I have books. And surprise, surprise he just stands there.<br /><br />Umm, okay. Want to give me a hint here buddy? So I ask him who he might be. And he tells me.<br />Oh goodie. So I ask if he got the e-mail I sent to him about learning the catalog. He's not sure. He seemed to be a little afraid that I knew who he was. Who did he think was sending him e-mail?<br />So I explain to him that he's been using ILL to request our own books, which we don't do.<br />At this point the MSB makes an appearance and shoves me aside. Fine with me. I could tell he was going to be a long term learning project.<br />And when the training session was over the MSB comes back into the office and tells me the student was very intelligent, just confused about how we operate. She could just sense it.(this is the same person who hired back Dr. Nathan and Stripey)<br />I almost asked the MSB what drugs she had been doing.<br />Later on a few of my students told me that while they recognized him, they didn't know him. He only goes to class. Doesn't participate in campus life at all.<br />So he probably won't be a regular featured player here on LI.<br />Which is a loss.Nikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07786732234227890710noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9098534.post-1167347271015831412006-12-28T17:04:00.000-06:002006-12-28T17:07:51.016-06:00Alive!IT's (meaning me) alive!! I've been quite delinquent with the ire induced rants but and totally gearing up to it!<br /><br />I forged a shallow stream of sanity with a new job at the beginning of september and thus haven't experience much ire for awhile (moving ire doesn't count stupid decrepid back). Well, to continue the metaphor, I slipped on some slime that coated the bottom of that stream and fell onto the bank and totally got my backside covered in mud.<br /><br />Coming soon: rants on applications, interviews, and Library Barbie.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9098534.post-1159543830185219902006-12-23T10:19:00.000-06:002006-12-28T17:04:31.156-06:00Butthole alert!This guy didn't know how close he came to a talk with security...<br /><br />So, we work at the Circulation desk. Right nearby is the Reference desk. Across from these is the 6 crash bar entry doors, the gate alarms. All around are computers... I ask anyone - would you think this is the spot that will have NO noise?<br /><br />So this as-cerbic person comes up to the desk and goes "Who's in charge here?" <br />I ask if he means here - this area - or something else. He gives visual attitude cues, then nods, so I reply I am. <br />Then he says, "This is a library do you think this means that you can talk?" <br />I'm all... "excuse me?" which I barely get out before he's all "you're just standing around talking; a library is a place for quiet and study..." I open my mouth to start to explain this is a service area there will always be talking, but I get maybe 2 words out before he interrupts and says "don't make excuses" and "what do I have to do to make you shut up?" and he said some other shocking crazy things but I was concentrating on controlling my fists so missed it all.<br /><br />Well sir, if you don't want to listen to our voices let me call the police and get you removed you COMPLETE wack job!! So I just said, "ok" and he walked away... (because he was in no way going to accept any rational explanations)<br /><br />My student was very frightened by this guy... he is definlty crazy in a murderous kind of way. I've got my eye on him now. He's using one of the research terminals - the second he accesses anything that isn't library created or owned I'm kicking his ass off! Not to mention my student and I are making it a point to speak very loudly to all people coming to the desk. Everyone's getting a greeting... books are being forceful put on shelves and counters...Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9098534.post-1166571453432957282006-12-20T17:19:00.000-06:002007-04-17T22:58:02.074-05:00Anger and Rage in ILL v.2So after I sent out the polite informative note about how we don't ILL stuff we already own, he sends another ILL request.<br /><br />This time it's for something that I not only know we have, it's something that I have seen recently. So it's on the shelf. I actually go down to look for it. Right where it's supposed to be.<br />So I canceled the ILL request yet again. And my favorite part was he didn't even bother to search our catalog. He went straight to Google to look for it. Now I have nothing aganist Google. I use it frequently myself. But c'mon! Just blows the mind that he made it to college and grad school.<br /><br />So while I am rapidly losing patience with this idiot, I hold out hope that he can eventually be taught and send him the following message. "I would like you to come to the library for a refresher course on how to use our catalog and ILL software. I believe it would be more rewarding and less frustrating trying to do research if you learned how to use them properly.<br />Please e-mail me with a time that you can come for this."<br />Tune in for part three of this entertaining saga.Nikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07786732234227890710noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9098534.post-1166154616782518462006-12-19T18:20:00.000-06:002007-04-17T22:57:15.234-05:00Anger and Rage in ILLrecently there was a spate of new ILL requests. All by the same person. His user ID was Dude(I learned to leave off the 'e') So I knew before I even saw the request we were going to have issues.<br />After searching our catalog I noticed we have all of his requests so I sent him an e-mail telling him he didn't need to ILL the books. After the last ILL was cancelled 'The Dud(e)' sent an e-mail back saying and I quote "why was this cancelled? I've submitted about 10 requests and have only gotten cancellation notices--nothing that I requested. Am I doing something wrong?"<br />Librarian Loki chimed in from her sabbatical with a resounding yes in her inimitable way.<br />I believe the words crazy and fool were used.<br />I sent out a nice, polite, and informative note to the "dud(e)" explaining things about catalogs and ILL policy.<br />Do you think he understood it?<br />Wait until the next installment.Nikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07786732234227890710noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9098534.post-1161657531518656712006-12-13T20:45:00.000-06:002006-12-14T20:55:27.890-06:00Worrying about the fate of the professionNow they are into the e-mail. I recently had a run in with the King of Stupid.<br />Via e-mail. Okay I will concede spam and the stupid jokes and forwards. But to invade my cozy ivory tower with His Majesty was just too much.<br />There was a question about the problem of library security. You know, stolen library books that appear for sale on various internet sites.<br />The person wanted to know what other libraries had done in similar cases. One public librarian made the comment she had seen a book on sale on Ebay that she herself had taken a lost fee for only days earlier.<br />She didn't complain to either the web site or her bosses because the person in question had paid her for the book.<br />I was surprised at that response. And said so. <br />Then the K of S jumps in saying why should she complain since the book was paid for and the library no longer owned it and oh by the way you are very wrong and your opinion isn't worth jack.<br />Okay he didn't say the last part, but the way he phrased his e-mail it was implied.<br />And it's not the first time that the K of S has offended people. Most of the time we ignore him or in a few cases gang up on him with our superior knowledge and experience.<br />But in this case I replied to his post pointing out a few facts. Like just because you accept a lost fee doesn't mean you sold the book to this patron. And later it was discovered that, the library in particular, had been targeted by people who were shopping library shelves for specific books to sell. (Can we say arrest warrant?)<br />Of course that wasn't good enough for K of S. He had to send me a personal e-mail pointing out how wrong I was and how fantastically right he is.<br />You work in a tiny little community college. I work in a major research university. Gee, I wonder why. <br />If this is what's out there in my profession, I need to move to Paris and learn to paint.Nikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07786732234227890710noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9098534.post-1158526192141331642006-11-01T19:58:00.000-06:002006-11-01T21:30:52.973-06:00Patience of a saintI am glad today's All Saint's day. I could use the patience and forgiveness of them. I don't know what is up with the students today.<br />Maybe they know it's our anniversary month. And wanted to give us something to complain about again.<br />Two years of bitching and whining here on LI! Wow. Amazing really.<br />So far, today I have had students who are well into the semester and know how to use the reserve pages shout out only half a call number for reserve books. When I insist they write it down they give me death glares.<br />Ha. They have a long way to go before they can perfect a decent death glare capable of intimidating Nike the Librarian.<br />I learned the library glare from the best!<br />Then the two of the most capable and intelligent library workers seemed to have taken a little mental vacation while at the desk. One checked out an entire set of DVD's(a total of 8 items) to one student for a 2 hour reserve. Not only can't you watch a set of 8 DVD's in two hours it's not our reserve policy for Media items. <br />The other let someone borrow a reserve book without checking it out first (Sigh) and then screwed up paging books, so I spent half an hour chasing down already checked out books that were on the verge of being marked "lost".<br />To top it all off, she left all huffy because I asked her to be more attentive when doing her job. <br />And yes, I was nice about it. <br />Well, I had been missing something to complain about so it worked out.<br />So happy anniversary Librarian Ire.Nikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07786732234227890710noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9098534.post-1159743483644131482006-10-10T17:47:00.000-05:002006-10-15T20:30:45.263-05:00More stupid freshmanHere's a little gem. <br />One of our new students has been deep into research. So he pages books from us to be held on our circ desk.<br />Despite the fact we've told him many times that we don't do that. I personally have sent him 4 e-mails in the last week.<br />So what do we get today? 4 more requests to be held at our desk.<br />I send him more e-mails and then get a reply saying Oh I am so sorry I keep forgetting to look at the place. And oh by the way is anyone at the library now?<br />No, dipstick. I log into the spam laden e-mail account from home to mess with your mind.<br />Not that it's hard to do apparently.<br />I bet he is one of the people who call up places and ask are you open when someone answers the phone.Nikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07786732234227890710noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9098534.post-1158699800957579472006-10-10T14:56:00.000-05:002006-10-09T21:12:49.463-05:00Laughing hystericallyat the new ILL users.<br />I haven't had such a good laugh at an ILLer in some time.<br />Here is a new request from a new student. The request is about an obscure topic on the fringes of philosophy. And the book they want is in Dutch. Nothing wrong with either of these things. I see stuff that's a lot weirder than that being checked out everyday.<br />But what gets me is that the requester cited the author, the full title, the publication date and publisher. Which is rare. I am lucky to get an author and title most of the time.<br />But instead of citing an academic database that they found this in, they tell me that it is available at Amazon.com. <br />Well, good for them! Amazon that is. Branching out, I see.<br />The two things I can't figure out is why the person didn't buy it(wasn't that expensive) and why they thought a citation in Amazon would help.Nikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07786732234227890710noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9098534.post-1158986604956255702006-09-29T23:34:00.000-05:002006-10-09T21:05:41.983-05:00Whoo-Yah!!!Oh there was joy this week. Yes, pure unadulterated dancing JOY!<br />In fact I got to do the Hooray you're fired Happy dance. <br />Stripey has left the library.<br />I don't have the full story, but I suspect there's more to it than the offical line.<br />The offical line is that she got another job. <br />But there were hints that she doesn't have another job at all. And the boss dropped a morsel of gossip that there are medical tests in Stripey's future.<br />And not for allergies or heart trouble if you get my drift.<br />But again I don't have the full story.<br />While I don't wish any terrible disease on her, really. It's nice that when I work now on her days I can actually get stuff done instead of answering her questions every 5 minutes.Nikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07786732234227890710noreply@blogger.com1