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silveradeptOf course, you can't have one without the other - there are always things that we would love library users to pick up on...
1) If your pants do not fit your waist, you have two options. Get smaller pants, or buy a belt and use it. Showing us your briefs (grey, white) or your buttcrack are not acceptable.
2) Recessions suck. That said, if you think that you're doing yourselves a favor by voting down levies and millages and bonds because you don't want to pay the taxes on them, think again. Or at least don't complain when you find out that the schools are suffering because their capital has been curtailed by uncomfortable and evil cuts in the budget, or that the library suddenly isn't as open or as material-filled as it was before.
3) For us, recessions only kinda suck, actually. We're actually rather intrigued at how much our usage spikes in bad economic times. Yes, this means you will have to wait for holds.
4) It's not really that much more of a problem to order something through ILL. It will take longer to get here, that's for sure. It also makes me feel a bit sad when I've found what might be just the thing for you in ILL, only for you to tell me that it's too much of a burden and not to bother with it. All that superb librarian power...goes to waste.
5) You do not call at the circulation clerk, the reference desk, or the youth services desk from your computer terminal to have him/her fix a problem with your computers. You go over to someone and explain it and bring them back with you.
6) If I can hear the bass line of whatever piece it is you are playing in your vehicle, through the windows, doors, and walls of both your car and my building, and it threatens to drown out a conversation (or the kids in the children's area), you're playing it too loud.
7) The loss of your internet terminal does not imply that you can lose your common courtesy and decency. Nor does it mean you can close your ears and not listen to what I am saying.
8) Teenagers, if treated like normal people instead of pariahs, will behave like normal people. If you are intimidated by them, their tobacco usage, and their occasional use of coarse language, don't hide behind your child as the reason you complain to me. Own up that you're afraid of them, you think they're behaving degenerately, and you want me to make them go away.
8b) That said, lot of ill-behaved vandals, if you live up to the stereotype, you're not going to garner any sympathy from us... or the police when we sic them on you for your vandalism.
9) Thank you for not annotating the book directly with pen or other nonremovable methods and materials. However, please remember to remove your annotations after you are finished with the book and are returning it to us.
10) The sign clearly says that we open at 10. Why, then, are you waiting outside out door at 9? You're not even leeching the WiFi. That there are more than one of you waiting is also unnerving.
1) If your pants do not fit your waist, you have two options. Get smaller pants, or buy a belt and use it. Showing us your briefs (grey, white) or your buttcrack are not acceptable.
2) Recessions suck. That said, if you think that you're doing yourselves a favor by voting down levies and millages and bonds because you don't want to pay the taxes on them, think again. Or at least don't complain when you find out that the schools are suffering because their capital has been curtailed by uncomfortable and evil cuts in the budget, or that the library suddenly isn't as open or as material-filled as it was before.
3) For us, recessions only kinda suck, actually. We're actually rather intrigued at how much our usage spikes in bad economic times. Yes, this means you will have to wait for holds.
4) It's not really that much more of a problem to order something through ILL. It will take longer to get here, that's for sure. It also makes me feel a bit sad when I've found what might be just the thing for you in ILL, only for you to tell me that it's too much of a burden and not to bother with it. All that superb librarian power...goes to waste.
5) You do not call at the circulation clerk, the reference desk, or the youth services desk from your computer terminal to have him/her fix a problem with your computers. You go over to someone and explain it and bring them back with you.
6) If I can hear the bass line of whatever piece it is you are playing in your vehicle, through the windows, doors, and walls of both your car and my building, and it threatens to drown out a conversation (or the kids in the children's area), you're playing it too loud.
7) The loss of your internet terminal does not imply that you can lose your common courtesy and decency. Nor does it mean you can close your ears and not listen to what I am saying.
8) Teenagers, if treated like normal people instead of pariahs, will behave like normal people. If you are intimidated by them, their tobacco usage, and their occasional use of coarse language, don't hide behind your child as the reason you complain to me. Own up that you're afraid of them, you think they're behaving degenerately, and you want me to make them go away.
8b) That said, lot of ill-behaved vandals, if you live up to the stereotype, you're not going to garner any sympathy from us... or the police when we sic them on you for your vandalism.
9) Thank you for not annotating the book directly with pen or other nonremovable methods and materials. However, please remember to remove your annotations after you are finished with the book and are returning it to us.
10) The sign clearly says that we open at 10. Why, then, are you waiting outside out door at 9? You're not even leeching the WiFi. That there are more than one of you waiting is also unnerving.
