#tales from the library

[tabbyofwisdom]

Had a 2nd grader during book club today tell me that “I was not made for work. I was made to read books.” You and me both buddy.

#librarians #tales from the library

[bookish-bi-mormon]

sorry I know it doesn't matter but so many people come up to me at my library circulation desk and ask me about renting things 😭😭😭

It's not renting it's borrowingggggg. There is no money exchanged that's the whole fucking point 😭

#ray's ramblings #tales from the library #I don't correct them cause I know that comes across as pedantic #but in my heart the distinction matters

[blazingspirit]

One of the programs my library runs is a cookbook club, which is basically a themed potluck, everyone brings a dish they've never made before and they all eat together. Today we had March's cookbook club, with the theme "something green", and one of my coworkers made cilantro ice cream. She saved some for me to try at the end of the night and one, it was really weird but in a good way, like it tasted how a fresh cut lawn smells? But two, I learned that I do not have the cilantro soapy gene, which begs the question... what is in that one brand of dill pickle chips that tastes soapy to me? I always assumed it was cilantro. idk maybe they put dish soap in the chips.

#personal junk #tales from the library

[catboyneighbor]

I was just interviewing a teen volunteer at the library and 1. big queer energy, love seeing teens who are aggressive in gender non-conformity

but 2. as soon as we sat down she grabbed a piece of paper and started drawing, didn't look at me once, and by the time the 10 minutes interview was done had drawn an amazing full page piece of furry artwork????

She's my hero.

#tales from the library

[foxgirlontherun]

The wonders of working in a library:

There’s this older man, a professor of some sort, who usually comes in dirty and smelly (sometimes he smells like cow shit, sometimes like alcohol), acts like every female librarian is his personal assistant, acts like no rule applies to him because he’s above everyone in the library, especially us, and pretends to be big pals with every man working there. So, a disgusting, sexist prick. I told him the other day that he can’t come in with his coffee and he almost had a fit. He’s been coming here for 30 years and he never had to drink his coffee outside, who do I think I am? I didn’t care, obviously. I didn’t let him in. Now he pretends I’m not even there when he comes in, like that would make my day harder... :D And he peeks out from between the rows of bookshelves to see if there are other librarians around because he won’t come up to the desk if I’m the only one there. But he also drinks his coffee outside without me having to ask. Baby steps.

This lady came up to me today saying she would like to borrow the January issue of XY magazine. And I explained to her she can’t borrow this year’s magazines but she can read it in the library if I can find it. She insisted that someone told her she can borrow it (with a smile that told me she thought I was an idiot). I explained again that she can’t, I work there, I know. I looked up the magazine, we don’t have it. I told her that. She left. She came back approximately 10 minutes later saying, alright, she understands she can’t borrow it, but she would like to read it here.

#tales from the library #i should keep a journal

[stephanidftba]

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Ah, the glamorous life of a children's librarian...

#children's librarian #tales from the library #library life #library tag

[characters-at-the-library]

I spent probably 30 minutes trying to fix a patron’s phone because her text keyboard wasnt appearing. I found where I was supposed to fix it in her settings, but the only keyboards were voice to text.

She went out to do something while I tried to fix it, came back and told me she culled her phone and had deleted her keyboard app.

I redownloaded the keyboard and it was fixed in 30 seconds 😞🫠😐

#librarian #library #just library things #patrons be patroning #tales from the library

[mydayatthelibrary]

COVID Lady

Waaaaay back in February we had a display up from a local photographer who took pictures in the hospital during COVID. We had a small sign warning of the potentially sensitive nature of the display, but no one ever complained. It was while this display was up that we first noticed the woman who we (somewhat affectionately) call COVID Lady.

I do not know her housing situation, though I do know that she comes in regularly and is seemingly working her way through the classics. I found Great Gatsby, Of Mice and Men, and The Scarlet Letter for her the other day. I used to work at a large bookstore company (who will remain nameless) and am still programmed to put the book in the patron’s hand, so I hand delivered these to her. She is very nice and quiet most of the time.

Here’s the weird part: she talks to nothing.

Now, I talk to myself and mutter about what I’m doing. This woman is different. She mutters about God and how humans are destroying the earth and how there will be an apocalypse. She opened her email the other day (I only know this because I was shelving DVDs and she was not as subtle as she maybe thought she was being) and muttered about “death, death, death. People are dying and killing each other, death, death, death.”

The COVID display had her muttering about the end times and how there would be a reckoning from God. She would quote whole bible verses at the display and we actually had to ask a couple of times if she was okay. Each time she reacted like she did not know what she was saying (and maybe she didn’t).

A month or so after the display went down, we heard her talking to John Adams on the stairs. How she got a word in edge-wise is beyond me. When asked if she needed help, she said she was fine and moved on with her day. I don’t think she knows that the things she says in her head are actually being spoken.

She always smiles at me and has the general demeanour of a scared deer. She always stops her muttering when she sees us coming or when asked if she is all right.

I was shelving upstairs and in a book in the pharmaceuticals section I found three cardstock note pages full of increasingly less coherent ramblings about God and the end times. I recycled these notes and moved on with my day, but I would not be surprised if they were from her. Maybe not. Maybe they were left by someone who was reading about medicine for rheumatism and decided to talk about religion.

#my day at the library #library #library fun #tales from the library #religion #never a dull moment

[andthebeanstalk]

Me: hm, I want something to put on the TV as background noise... Huh. Looks like YouTube is recommending something called The Last Unicorn. That's perfect, it's probably some old shitty animation that has aged poorly! I can watch it ironically!

Me, 2 hours later as the credits roll: *crying, cheering, buying the book, composing the songs*

Me, 2 weeks later: So I have compiled all of the quotes from the book that I think could make good tattoos, and also, HOW HAVE I NEVER LEARNED ABOUT HOW THE LAST UNICORN FUCKING SLAPS??? This gay-ass little fairytale fed my soul! Watered my crops! Transed my gender! Can't believe I heard of this story from youtube recommendations, of all places!!

#original #the last unicorn #tlu #peter s beagle #molly gru #schmendrick #schmendrick the magician #two of my favorite characters in anything right there in the center of the story! and I'm glad I saw the film first! #my reading ability has diminished due to trauma disability etc. but it seems like having a visual reference actually really helped! #no wonder i only ever want to read fan fic! turns out reading is not actually Superior to other types of Storytelling. it's just different. #to say otherwise is snobbishness I have been eminently guilty of in my life! #but like it is easier for me to consume tv and movies and that is fine actually. also that's why I'm doing a graphic novel lol #because i wanted to make something i would actually be able to read if i found it at a library. altho the audio book IS gonna be bomb #the audiobook is for visually impaired readers and anyone who wants or needs it! accessible stories for everyone! yeah!! #my gender was already transed but now I've gained an ADDITIONAL gender! which one? I'll never tell 😘 #i am so powerful i have so much fuckin gender. my wife has no gender. and she is equally as powerful. #and also she has STUDIED THE BLADE #mostly zoro's blades from One Piece #normally YouTube recommends me shit movies like idiocracy or smth this is like if every day ur cat brought you a piece of rotten food and #then one day it brings you a BEAUTIFULLY ANIMATED TALE FEATURING MY BELOVED TWINK FUCK-UP WIZARD FRIEND AND MY ALL-TIME HOMEGIRL MOLLY GRU #and also it's soft and beautiful and funny and fucking weird!! i wrote melodies to the songs in the books on my ukulele

[lmaverick123]

Tales From the Library: Summer Boredom and Mentally Handicapped Patrons

Tales From the Library: Summer Boredom and Mentally Handicapped Patrons

After my post from yesterday, I really enjoyed telling some of the stories from my time as a student worker at the Library of the college I went to.  I got a TON of these.  Some of them are funny, some of them are heart-warming.  Some of them make me look REALLY pathetic, but that’s part of growing up.  I was 22 and stupid in college.  Between some of the crazy shit in the dorms that I lived in…

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#Autism #Boredom #Funny #Humor #Lost Child #Summer #Summertime #Tales From the Library #Writing

[tea-tuesday]

travel tales: seoul, south korea

#enjoy some pics from my trip to korea this past spring <33 #i have more i want to post later when i don't have daily study content hehe #i haven't studied for the past few days because i pulled a muscle in my chest and it's been sooo painful to move around..been laying in bed #i even wfh from bed today but hopefully it gets better :(( #tea-tuesday #mine #studyblr #lawblr #traveling #seoul #south korea #cafe #flowers #flowershop #starfield library #travel tales

[blazingspirit]

I pulled all the picture books at work out to wipe down the shelves and shelf read them as I put them back (shelf reading = checking the authors/titles to see all the books are in the right order), and I noticed we don't have The Hockey Sweater.

I mentioned this to my mom and she gave me a blank look and said, "I don't know what that is." I was shocked, as I'd seen the animated version a million times as a kid, whenever the French teacher had time to kill.

Today I said the same thing to my coworker, and she didn't know it either! I guess it was not the nationally unifying experience I thought it was. (Pour l'amour de dieu, it was on our money!)

So like, can we all just take ten minutes out of your collective day for some cultural enrichment and watch The Hockey Sweater together?

#tales from the library

[catboyneighbor]

Today at work a couple of other gay trans queers were hanging around browsing the shelves. At one point they came over to ask a couple of questions, and I really played up my own faginess and breedability because I wanted to impress them. At the end of the interaction one of them did the catboy thing with their hand and went 'nya!' as a method of farewell.

These two will live in my heart forever, this community brings me endless joy : )

#Tales from the library #lgbtq #Joy

[deacons-wig]

a very old lady called the reference desk and asked how many uninhabited islands there were in the world. being a diligent librarian i said MANY! and then asked if she was interested in any region of the world in particular because wow what a question, better narrow it down. she said no, that her ex husband used to say he wanted to go live alone on an island and she wanted to make sure he could find one. i told her he had hundreds of thousands of options and she said "good." and wished me a pleasant day and is honestly the most iconic woman of our time.

#libraries #library talk #tales from the ref desk

[cherrhara]

huevember day 24, natalia

#natalia my absolute belovedest #the original idea came from me thinking that the title screen library is in her fathers room #but once i started actually drawing it and looking for refs i realized its not true OOPS #also i tried a different lineart and rendering style and i didnt like it so thats why the whole image is so dark LMAO #huevember 2023 #huevember #tales of the abyss #tales of #tales of series #natalia luzu kimlasca lanvaldear #cherrhara arts

[factuallywrong]

My TJ Klune collection to far!

#wolfsong #green creek series #tj klune #the house in the cerulean sea #under the whispering door #in the lives of puppets #lgbt #gay books #books #tales from verania #library