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Oh, you're right...
Brows could radiate sweat. I know mine did today--I've just gotten a job at the library, and shelving is hard work!Array
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Yes, it is. I volunteered last summer at a library, and I didn't even shelve, I just neatened up the shelves (which did, however, involve reshelving), and I had to battle exhaustion more than once.
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Welcome to the club...In our one-employee-at-a-time library I check in, order, check out, deal with research questions, but many of my best work hours are spent shelving..it's great mind therapy!
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Oh, I wish...That I could find the time to help out in the library, but then again, I don't know how much I'd get done...I'm forbidden (mother's orders) to read while (not) cooking supper, lol!
I used to plan how I'd manage to spend the night in the library...I could probably do so if I stayed hidden in a dark corner and silent.
Nanaea, I don't know where you work, but maybe you could tell me why my public library now charges $60 for out-of-town patrons? (like us) What costs so much? And is it going up in your area?
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(I can say 'book' in five languages)
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Barb, you know I love you for many reasons. Not least among them being that you're a librarian.Many communities have churches. My ideal communites value public libraries as their shining "temples of worship".And, of course, all library employees are sacred priests, priestesses, and acolytes. :)-- Nanaea
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OT: Another bibliotek fanatic (and accolades to any and all library personnel)If I could move into a library, I would. I used to do some volunteer work at one of my grade school libraries and I also did some at a very small public library (helping my mother in the public library doing some general stuff, doing the shelving in the grade school library.)Ah, a library (preferably one with an in-house living, breathing, warm, non-human mascot.) Just find a place to stick my bed and a decent kitchen, then I'd be set.Phyllis (aka Sidhe Uaine or Gaia Euphoria)
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Non-human mascot: We used to have a library cat......but alas, Morris was done in by an undisciplined canine. (not in the library, just down the street).
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Thanx,Nanaea! I'm at work now in a British Council Library and my coworker is on her break,so it's a one-man operation. Nice to know that we're appriciated.
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"all library employees are..."except in southern US small-town libraries, where all employees seem to be hog-callers. I've never seen a louder group of people anywhere, notwithstanding that there's supposed to be some degree of "quiet" in a library setting.I've gone so far as to politely request the (apparent) senior staff person present whether those on duty might turn the homey gossip (with each local walking in) down a few decibels. I never got much beyond a muttered apology and absolutely no change in Wanda and Lurleen's caterwauling with the patrons and their screaming spawn.
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Linda, Barb and Mary Anne are pretty good at homey chit-chat with the locals too....But we try to keep the noise down to a dull rumble.
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Daividh, Daividh...You're still clinging to the past. The days of peaceful perusal in public libraries are long gone. That went the same route as the card catalog, Daividh.-- Nanaea
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That's what I tell my feet whenever they start complaining...
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Heyyyyy, Array!You're shelving in a library? That's a great job! I'm always pushing public libraries -- and the folks who do the vital work of shelving library materials (we call them "pages") absolutely rock. :)Major props to ya. :)-- Nanaea (Library Director)
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