It’s been a big week or so at the library, and to celebrate my day off, I’m going to blog about public libraries. Yep. (Don’t worry, I spent a chunk of the day learning how to make Chinese Pork Dumplings. That deliciousness will be posted soon.) I already told you how awesome the blog “I…
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Reason 2,948 Why I Love My Job
I love my job for lots of reasons–for the sheer insanity that happens sometimes when you’re working with the general public. For the random information I learn every day. For the chance to help people with small things like using a website that can impact the big things like getting a job. It’s great. But…
Return to the Land of Books
Sometime in the past few years, I forgot what it’s like to work in a library. You’re constantly (or semi-constantly) helping people find books or making lists of books or sorting through new books. So if you’re someone who likes to read, it’s natural that you’ll find at least one book a day that you…
Haiku
Microsoft mocks me Sticky fingers pick up books Another work day
Treehouse Naps
There’s something just right about a rainy day at the library. Getting out of bed is kind of a struggle (and that’s an understatement, since you could say that I have “kind of a struggle” getting out of bed every day), but once you’ve made it from the cocoon of pillows and sheets to the…
Patron Quirks
There are more and more patrons coming into the library covered in calamine lotion, with oozing eyes, and suffering from other very obvious and probably contagious health problems. Mmm. I just love helping someone find a book when touching the same surfaces will very likely make me rush to the store to buy calamine lotion,…
Labels Matter Sometimes
Having now fully recovered from the loss of my post on Monday, I’ll try to tell that story again. Fortunately, the story is complete now. No cliff-hangers for you. Aren’t you relieved?! I’m sure you would have been on the edge of your seat. I have a little problem with assigned reading. The labels “assigned”…
Small, but valuable. 