It's spring break at my university and, this early in the morning, staff outnumber students by three or four to one. No one has even asked me if we're open today!
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Today's random knowledge win! I remembered the German word for stories from my high school classes for a student browsing for short stories.
Whatever brain cell remembered erzählungen deserves a treat for hanging onto the word for so long.
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My hot take: I kind of hate these stories. Life happens & librarians shouldn’t make people so fearful that they don’t return late books.
Also (beside the point): after this much time, that book has almost certainly been de-accessioned. I doubt it’ll be added back.
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There are new student orientations coming through the library. There must be new tour guides working out their timing because we've had three pile ups in the stairwells when groups bumped into each other.
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Oh great, the ILS went down.
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Always a fun day when you can introduce someone to the stunning work of Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_...
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A student is holding a small, solo concert in the men's room.
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Does anyone else read in this way...? Cause I honestly would like to stop, but it's like I can't help myself lol
#booksky #books #reading #librarianproblems ???
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Ah, under other duties as assigned.
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Someone abandoned one of the library's books in one of our restrooms today. On the one hand, it's our job to provide reading material. On the other, ew.
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Goddamnit, poets, please give your collected and selected works actual titles! You're *poets* for crying out loud; you can do better!
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Well that was a new question. A student wanted to see if we, the library, could help them get access to a subscriber-only Substack newsletter. (Sadly, we cannot.)
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My trip to talk to the writing tutors about walking students with no sources and other research problems to the research help desk is bearing fruit this week! (It's annotated bib time on campus so we have students in need of both librarians and writing tutors.)
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Nobody showed up to my free, 30-minute library session on PubMed, not even the nursing students for whom I made it. #LibrarianProblems
(I’m offering it three times, and some students came to the first one.)
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One of my favorite things abt being an instruction librarian: helping overwhelmed students who were never taught how to do college-level research by breaking it all down into manageable pieces. It's shocking how many people were never taught the 5 paragraph outline.
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I sometimes wonder what the @bookculture.com staff thinks when they see a sizable, NJ library-bound order from their remainder sale not fifteen minutes after they send out sale emails. Do they realize how much they enable my book buying addiction? Do they think I'm bananas? 😂
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What was supposed to get done today, among many things:
-monthly meeting with supervisor
-NJLA presentation meeting
-meeting with PR coordinator
-Eid and ICBW prep
What actually happened:
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"Is the guy in the trespassed picture from yesterday the guy who was already trespassed for waving a knife around? Or is it just that they both look like Creepy White Dude Model 2?" #SaturdayLibrarian #LibraryLife #LibrarianProblems #Skybrarians
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I hope the person walking around with some kind of tank on their back with a hose is a) an exterminator b) here on duty but you can never tell at this place. And we weren't told to expect anyone. #LibraryLife #Skybrarians #LibrarianProblems
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Kind of amused at blowing up a student's phone because they asked for keywords for their research question by text. Thankfully, I have a keyboard and a browser interface for our SMS reference help.
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Between the anticipated snowstorm and our library being a voting location for the special Congressional election, the number of programs were rescheduled and/or scuttling right now is too damn high!
#librarianproblems #skybrarians #librarysky #GLAMs 📚
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Seeing more posts than usual on reddit about a general stike.
Just read a very interesting discussion from public librarians who argue that, since public libraries aren't about capitalism anyway, they want to stay open for people to gather, warm up, etc.
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This hasn't happened to my library (knock on wood, etc.), but it has happened to libraries in my state. So now we have what to do about bomb threats on our emergency plan.
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Patron, Saturday: You can't take so many books, we have to share them with everyone else.
Another patron, Monday: [checks out at least half of our phonics collection, at least forty books]
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QotD, helpful/not-helpful edition.
Student: I'm probably doing way too much research for this project, but I don't care about that.
Me: Well, I'm not going to stop you.
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Feeling a wee bit jealous of a colleague who caught a research help request about the enigma machine.
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Apparently a patron just called the cops on herself because we were asking her to leave for smoking in the library and she isn't going to go until the cops show up. #Skybrarians #LibraryLife #LibrarianProblems
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QotD, phrasing edition.
Student, to me at the research help desk: Hey, can you check me out?
He meant, could I take payment for items at the (closed) library cafe. The answer would only be yes if he'd been talking about a book.
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I'm covering the evening reference shift today for a colleague. it's the second day of the semester, so everyone's looking for textbooks.
Also:
* Pointedly asked a student listening to a podcast on their phone at top volume if they needed headphones.
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