If you are fortunate enough to be friends with a library employee you know they, can be a lively and entertaining bunch. Far from being stoic, matronly, stern little old ladies with buns, the library workers I know are as diverse as the area I live in. So when I stumbled upon the tumblr page called ?Librarian Shaming?,?thanks to the Daily Mail, where library workers post their secrets, I was all in.
First off, thank you to the librarian who doesn’t enforce the food and drink policy. I hate those since I’m always hungry and thirsty.
Here are some other highlights ?from the page, presumably posted by real, live librarians:
“My books are often overdue.”
“I owe so much in fines I am frequently blocked and have to wait for Food-4-Fines Program to clear my account.”
“I owed so much $ in fines that I just moved to a new city and joined a different library.”
“I get so excited about new books, I HUG THEM.”
“I get oppressively bored during ?5 little? finger plats. By the 3rd monkey or pumpkin, I am gone. I have astrally projected myself into a beautiful world where young children have only two fingers.”
“I use Wikipedia bibliographies to find other sources. Loser!”
“Actually, I?am?in it for the money. That’s why it’s called a job. (I’ll take a raise while you’re at it ? we can’t live on love alone.)?
Some of the posts are funny. Some confirm things you may have suspected. I have never thought all children’s librarians can possibly enjoy being around kids all the time that much. The most interesting aspect of the site is it represents a very one-gendered workforce that is stereotyped as female and either always kind, cheerful, and asexual or old, mean spinsters. This site opens a window and gives us a chance to see them as normal fully human beings. Happy reading!
Edited/Published by: SB
