... musings of a too-short girl in the high-stacks world of librarianship
I'd been helping a very nice, polite young man with his questions about the citizenship exam. He was so polite that I was actually thinking to myself what a rarity he was. But before he left, he turned back to me and asked, in a lower but not overly embarrassed voice, if I knew where the nearest Adults Only Video store was. A bit shocked but also pretty amused, I gave it my best shot to see if I could find a listing, but when the porn adverts started popping up, I had to tell him it wasn't appropriate for me to look it up. I have to say, at least, unlike most of our porn-centric patrons, he didn't just think it was okey doke to be viewing it for free on the public terminals. That's a rarity, too.
...it's been very busy but not a lot of weird stuff has been happening. But I'm going to be in charge while the manager's away for big chunks of the summer, so you'll be in for many tales. The weirdos always seem to know when I'm in charge.
Well, when they're puppets being held by primary school kids, at least. This year our summer reading school visit skit involves having the kids hold animal puppets and my puppet asks them what they feed their babies. Usually we get typical stuff - bones for the dog, carrots for the rabbit, etc. But we've also had:
Cat - oranges
Mouse - apples, wires, rat food
Bunny - eggs (I get it, it's the Easter Bunny, but it was still cute)
And we always get the interesting questions
"Is it fun working at the library?" - I thought that was actually a super question and I was able to say that yes, yes it is!
"How many books are the library?" - Dang, I actually had the stats on that last year but couldn't remember. I just said tens of thousands.
Happily, school visits are over. Now it's just the deluge of sticker-wantin' kids for the next two months.