frequently used tags:
#librarian superheroes
(aka things i do as a library worker)
#adventures in librarianing
(aka things that happen to me as a library worker)
#this is my OMG SARAH tag
(aka i talk about sarah a lot.)
putting new books in the system and i’ve typed the words “marvel adventures” so many times they aren’t even words anymore.
but hey, we’re about to actually have marvel books on the shelves in the children’s room again.
they have actually all been checked out since the avengers movie. we usually have about half of the children’s ones on hand at any given time, but nope. every. single. one. has been gone. and as soon as one gets checked in, it’s back out again to some other kid.
makes me really happy. :)
i’m 99% sure the majority of children’s books these days are written by a stoned person.
that said, when i’m going through catalogues of books to buy for the children’s room where i work, i primarily look for dinosaurs, girl pirates, and absofuckinglutely bizarre premises. so OBV we have this now. :D
FATFEB LADY!CAPTAIN AMERICA COSTUME IN PROGRESS EDITION.
guys. GUYS. so today i was inventorying books at work and there was a superhero squad book that said FREE PUNCH OUT MASK INSIDE! and i was like, ‘oh, processing probably took it out or some kid has already gotten to it.’ but i checked anyway and SURE ENOUGH. THERE IT WAS.
so i decided it must be mine.
add this to the fact that i got to pick up the skirt and shirt i’m using for my lady!cap costume for dragon*con/halloween this year (there’s also going to be a blue cardigan with the star embroidered on the front and back and i’m hunting for 1940s-esque red heels), and HEY LOOK IT’S THE BEST DAY EVER OKAY.
so yeah!
skirt and shirt both from sellers on etsy.
mask from superhero squad: captain america doom’s day courtesy of the fact that i work in the children’s department of a library.
and it’s been almost a month. and they’re still not back. and i’m really starting to worry that we’re not going to get them back.
and how can we be a library without any patricia polacco books?
#whywearefriends
I got into a (very polite) disagreement with a woman questioning the suitability of In Our Mothers’ House once. I won. I felt very noble in the aftermath.
ALAS we don’t actually have that one. i need to buy it myself and sneak it in as a donation or something because i have a feeling that’s a conversation i would lose if i straight up asked our manager to buy it.
oh my tiny conservative town. :/
i have, however, been able to get todd parr’s books in.
(from the family book by todd parr)
my mom’s argument against piracy is “well what if you wrote a book and one person bought it and then hundreds of people got to read it for free and you didn’t make any money!”
MOTHER YOU HAVE JUST DESCRIBED
LIBRARIES
YES. YES. YES. THIS. THIS IS THE WHOLE POINT OF LIBRARIES. THIS IS THE WHOLE REASONS I LOVE LIBRARIES. THIS IS THE WHOLE REASON I WANT TO SPEND THE REST OF MY LIFE WORKING AT LIBRARIES.
ALL OF THE FREE SHIT FOR EVERYONE GUYS.
ALL OF IT.
You know that “Six Little Ducks” and “Five Little Ducks” are different songs and are willing to burst into song no matter what the occasion to prove the point.
TRUFAX
though i’m more likely to burst out into dinosaurs in cars, myself.
so i bought this poster today.
for my library.
children’s librarian made fun of me when i picked it up at the distribution sale (“now, becca. are you getting that for the library or for yourself?” “ah. do i really have to answer that question?”), but whatever.
the sad part is that i got it for the young adult section where all the graphic novels are and that’s not even in the same room as my desk. :(
and it ended with him telling a story about how when he was here a year or so ago there was a woman here who was all “rights for illegal aliens and super liberal and ‘a woman can do anything a man can do!’ but then she saw a snake and started screaming and jumped over the desk. liberal, my ass.”
like, what?
what?
what does a fear of snakes have to do with ANYTHING?
(GUESS WHO IS ALSO PRO IMMIGRATION AND LIBERAL AND FEMINIST AND SCARED OF SNAKES?
if you guessed “becca,” you are correct.)
gryffindraco replied to your post: worst thing: having to take a book out of the library that you know you won’t be able to return on time.
word of advice from a librarian: just talk to the librarians about it. we’re actually really cool about letting people hedge the rules if they explain the situation.that’s actually good to know, thanks! i currently have a shit ton of fines because my renew limit ran out when i was away earlier in the year, so i physically couldn’t return the books on time. i’ll have to go in and talk to them sometime.
Don’t believe those myths about librarians, we’re actually a really forgiving and nice group. Well…excluding the catalogers. They’ve earned their reputations :p
A lot of libraries also offer the ability to renew checkouts online, so be sure to ask if yours does and how you can set that up. It will save you a lot of fines on those days when you just CANNOT get there on time or remember at like 10pm that you have something due.
some libraries will also do vacation check-outs, where if you know you won’t be able to return them on time, they’ll change the due date to a time more convenient for you. our books check out for two weeks, but if someone tells us in advance that they won’t be able to return them then (out of town, planned extended hospital stay, etc.) we’ll give them the extra time they need, as long as it’s reasonable, not, like, a year or something.
