Please don’t email your librarian a link to an instagram story, presumably, containing the link to the article you are looking for. That leads to so so many problems.
Worked my butt off to obtain the only circulating copy of a book 📕 in the entire 50 United States 🇺🇸 from a small library in ND that I had to borrow indirectly thru the ND State Library….and my patron doesn’t even bother to check the book out that they asked for… #ILLblues #librarianproblems
Oh, I am surprise officer in charge. #SaturdayLibrarian #LibrarianProblems
Oh, and also our security cameras are down, I forgot that one but I was reminded just now when security got on the walkie talkies and informed us that their dispatch office phone is down, too. #LibraryLife #LibrarianProblems #BlackFridayLibrarian
The paramedics were here before we opened and we had the first person removed for being drunk and obnoxious before 10.
#LibraryLife #LibrarianProblems #BlackFridayLibrarian
Me: “I mean, yeah, he’s talking to someone who isn’t there, but at least he doesn’t want to involve *us* in it.”
Therapist: 👀
#LibrarianProblems
Running the same group of Jehovah's Witnesses who keep violating our solicitation policy off of our door and at least 25 feet away, for the fourth consecutive business day. #LibraryLife #LibrarianProblems
I just heard one of the other department managers walk up to my manager's door and ask "What's the verdict on the bird? There's nothing in the policy." #LibraryLife #LibrarianProblems

I only ask because cataloguers, being shady fuckers, have their own secret hang-outs. I'm risking my life just revealing that information. The Head Cataloguer may descend upon me, wings beating, shrieking horribly, and carry me off to their putrid lair as punishment for betraying the secrets of the inner sanctum.

#Cataloging #LibrarianProblems #Libraries