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This is so funny, every librarian should find this song very catchy. Sorry if it is a repost!
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This made me laugh! Anybody know what show this is from or is it just a one-off skit? I hope this isn't a repost :(.Current Mood:  cheerful |
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I just finished with the best investigation I have ever come across. A reporter calls looking for help in looking up a word. The word she gave me was "Seminole" which is a group of Indians and she was confused why a lawyer had given that word for an article. So I had to look it up old school for our internet was down at the time.
I asked her for the spelling again and she spelled, "Seminal". Now that I had the correct spelling I could find it for her. So I looked it up and read her the definition according to Webster's dictionary as I read aloud to her over the phone...
1. pertaining to, containing, or consisting of semen. *She sounded horrified so I figured that wasn't it and I continued* 2. highly original and influencing, the development of future events.
She quickly responded that was the one she wanted. I couldn't help but laugh into the phone as I hung up as politely as possible. Once off the phone I laughed so hard I fell down. Most amusing end to my day ever!Current Mood: jubilant |
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This elderly lady with a thick French accent wanted help printing out her emails and then needed to find a biography on Coco Chanel. While I was searching through the catalog I couldn't help but notice that she was staring right at me.
Old French Lady: Are you French?
Me: Me?
OFL: Yes, you.
(My maiden name is actually French in origin, but my ancestors are scattered throughout Europe) Me: A little bit here and there.
OFL: What?
Me: Uh, no - nevermind.
OFL: You look so French to me.
Me: Oh, oh ok.
OFL: You look just like Coco Chanel.
Now hold up - Coco Chanel was quite dead by the time I was born and while her name may be synonymous with elegance and haute couture, her physical embodiment, in my mind, resembled something like this.
Me: I do? (but I'm not wearing any pearls? hmmm...)
OFL: Yes. You look like a young Coco Chanel.
Ok, that's different! While I've never seen young Coco, I do know that Audrey Tautou is to play her in an upcoming biopic and she's about the cutest thing that doesn't contain a kitten so I'll take that compliment (though I look nothing like her).
Me: Oh, well, thank you, I guess.
OFL: What?
Me: I said, thank you. I’m flattered (?)
OFL: (does a cackle laugh) Oh, well, I don’t even really remember what she looked like.
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The desk phone rings and I answer it and the patron asks to be “connected to” the city library. I inform them that I can’t directly connect them, but I’ll be happy to provide them with the number (though I am wondering if they looked up our library number why they didn’t look up another one?).
The patron replies “ok” and I start reading off the phone number when simultaneously in my ear I hear “beep boop beep beep!” I stop giving the number and say, “Uh, you can’t be dialing while we’re on the line, you have to wait until I finish giving it to you and then hang up.”
There’s a pause. “Oh,” the patron says. Longer pause.
“Why don’t you write the number I’m giving you down and then call it,” I suggest.
Another pause. “Oh ok, hold on, let me go find a pen.”
I have never had a phone transaction quite like this and find it hard to imagine that this person has lived their life without knowing how properly use the phone. Who starts dialing while someone is talking? How did they think this transaction would work?
May. 23rd, 2009 @ 01:33 pm
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Upon entering the library:
"I hate reading!"
Well, you've come to the right place, then, numbnuts! Pull up a barcalounger and grab the remote, 'cause The Library is positively teeming with NOTHINGFORYOUHERE.
May. 19th, 2009 @ 10:05 am
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At my library we have to have ID to look up a patron's account number. Since we get a lot of students in the afternoons this sometimes causes problems. I had this conversation with a patron a few days ago:
Her: I don't have my library card. Can you look up my account?
Me: I need to see ID.
Her: I'm too young to have ID!
Me: Not even a school ID?
Her: Oh yeah, let me go get it.
She walks off and comes back a minute later with her... driver's license! I looked up her account since she had ID, but I'm wondering why she said she was too young for ID before...
May. 16th, 2009 @ 09:00 pm
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We had some kid (15 I think) break into one of our branches and tried to steal the money we had in the till. Apparently he thought that b/c of all the fines we take from people we'd be rolling in money, but he quickly found out that he may be going to prison for the rest of his life for a whopping 20 bucks in the till.
Lesson Learned: Don't screw with the library!
May. 11th, 2009 @ 05:52 pm
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I work in an academic library.
You know it's the end of the semester/quarter when...
1. Student start using the library for a supply store. Pens and pencils we have. You're out of luck with glue and index cards.
2. The copier is running double time.
3. Reference questions come down to "HALP! My paper/project is due tomorrow and I haven't done any work on it. Please do it for me!"
4. Students mistake the library for the bookstore. If you didn't get your books here in the first place, what makes you think we buy them back?
May. 7th, 2009 @ 04:34 pm
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(crossposted to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) library_mofo)
Just saw this on MSNBC's Countdown. Remember Capt. Sully, who not only safely landed the plane in the Hudson River after both engines went out, but is also an incredibly responsible library patron? Well not only is he making sure his lost books are covered, he's also trying to make everyone in the SF area returns theirs too! He's done a PSA for the SF Public Library, talking about their amnesty program. He also talks about the great lengths they're going through to try to salvage Capt. Sully's lost books from the river. Definitely worth a watch.
Video is here
May. 4th, 2009 @ 07:55 pm
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"On April 30th, 2009 in order to break up the stresses of spring semester exam week, UNC students flash raved the Walter Royal Davis Library. Without warning to those that were unaware, an estimated 3,000 students packed the library lobby and brought it hardcore for over 8 minutes."
May. 1st, 2009 @ 09:18 am
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On some days (and with some patrons), I think I would choose the lizards.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Cv2INuu9eo
Arjayen
Apr. 20th, 2009 @ 07:12 pm
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Video won't embed, sorry:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/090414-colombia-biblioburro-video-ap.html
via ontd_political
xposted to amused_library, badass_teacher and englishteachers, sorry for any duplications.
Figure at this point in the school year, we all need a little bit of fun and a little bit of hope.
Apr. 15th, 2009 @ 04:58 pm
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This isn't the typical "amused_library" fare, but it is amusing! Books on Wheels came to the Alvar branch of the NOPL last week. I wasn't able to go, but I wanted to share this idea with you, just in case they happen to make it to your town.
Apr. 11th, 2009 @ 01:05 am
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I received this link from my friend, we both work in public library here in Finland and found this amusing:
http://notalwaysright.com/at-least-he-can-tell-time/1765
Apr. 5th, 2009 @ 06:37 pm
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Hi everyone,
I came across this banned books bracelet and I thought some of you might like it: click here for pics and description
They also have this fun "Don't make me use my librarian voice" shirt.
Apr. 3rd, 2009 @ 11:55 am
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At one of my university's libraries, we hand-stamp every single book with that self-inking push-down kind of date stamp. (Hopefully, you all know what I am talking about. :)) [I only say this because my city's library has done away with stamping books.] Anyway, a patron asked me today whether it was difficult to line the stamp up to get it in the correct box. :] I remember thinking the same, exact thing when I visited the library when I was little. <3
Apr. 2nd, 2009 @ 07:18 pm
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I am pretty sure that John Grisham never wrote a book called 'White Trashers,' ma'am. No not even as a 'comedy.' No, we don't have the book in our collection, nor do any of the libraries in the area; I did check. No, I can't imagine why not.
O.O
Apr. 1st, 2009 @ 02:49 pm
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