#library life

[lakecountylibrary]

We don’t have a uniform, why do you ask?

Inspired by our friends at Rapid City Public Library (link goes to TikTok). Music only - sound not needed.

[Video Description: A librarian with glasses wearing a polo shirt and shelving books answers an unheard question from someone offscreen. His words are inaudible but the caption reads "The librarian wearing the cardigan and glasses will be able to help you." Video cuts to an information desk where four librarians wearing cardigans and glasses are working. They all turn and wave as four more librarians wearing cardigans and glasses pop out from behind the desk and wave. The librarian from the beginning walks on screen and puts on his own cardigan. And waves.]

Music credit: George Street Shuffle Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

[okayto]

Student worker at closing during finals week: We’re definitely getting a lot of people in who you can tell have never come into the library before.

[librarianproblems]

When all your holds come in at once

[kingsbridgelibraryteens]

Most people don’t pay too much attention to this creature who hangs out at the service desk. But recently, it was greeted by a child who said, “What are YOU doing here, Mr. Hedgehog?”

[conservethis]

In case you are thinking about going to school and becoming a conservator for a library with a large and convoluted mix of collections, know this:

Your pockets and desk will be FULL of these kinds of little notes that you will only kinda sorta remember their purpose when you find them days later.

And your camera roll on your phone will be littered with pictures of books and archival boxes that you know have problems that need to be investigated later.

[storybookprincess]

HI so technically i’m not allowed to say anything yet but this is tumblr so it doesn’t count & no one from work follows me so i am okay saying UM HI I GOT MY DREAM JOB AS A CHILDRENS LIBRARIANNNNNNNNNNN THEY CALLED ME A MERE TWO HOURS AFTER MY INTERVIEW TO OFFER IT TO ME BUT I CANTT SPILL THE BEANS BUT IM SO EXCITEDDDDDDD

[librarianpirate]

HOOPLA, OVERDRIVE/LIBBY NOW BANNED FOR THOSE UNDER 18 IN MISSISSIPPI

This country just keeps getting more and more off the rails. I can't even think of any pithy commentary to add - I'm just tired.

[perpetuallyexhaustedlibrarian]

I'm at a library training, and at the table over I see another librarian from a different library with a rainbow ao3 sticker on her water bottle

"ah," I think to myself, "so this is what it's like to spot another weirdo in the wild."

[theanticool]

Bored at work (library). Weeding books from the children’s nonfiction collection due to old age and condition.

Guess the year of the oldest book I find and get a prize!

[booksinmythorax]

Parents, I understand that you want to teach your kids to put things in their proper place. I do. That is virtuous and lovely. But at the library, when they touch a book and decide they do not want to check it out, its proper place is on the cart, not back on the shelf.

[lakecountylibrary]

Just the essentials!

Music credit: "Cinema Blockbuster Trailer 7" by Sascha Ende Link: https://filmmusic.io/en/song/329-cinema-blockbuster-trailer-7 License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license (CC BY 4.0)

[Video Description: A 26 second video. Orchestral, cinematic music plays. Text reads The library is on fire! Grab the most important things!

A librarian at her computer spins around in her chair in slow motion, a look of horror on her face. Video cuts between various librarians frantically rescuing items. Each scene is labeled with the item:

The South Shore Posters: A librarian completely obscured by a framed South Shore Line poster she is carrying backs out of a room.

The hand chair: A librarian hauls away a large red plastic chair shaped like a hand.

Patron holds: A librarian shovels patron holds off the holds shelf onto a cart.

Benny the library skeleton: A librarian princess-carrying a large skeleton dressed in an oversized t-shirt frantically looks around for an exit before dashing away

The cardigan pile: A librarian almost completely obscured by the pile of cardigans in her arms runs toward the camera.

3D printer: A librarian dashes up to a large 3D printer and attempts to lift it off the table

Cecily the giraffe: A librarian pats a life size baby giraffe statue and then grabs it by the leg and begins slowwwly scooting backward to slide it across the carpet

The library tree: A librarian grips an enormous planter out of which springs an entire tree and pulls with all her might. It doesn't move.

James Patterson books? : The librarian carrying Benny sprints into frame between shelves loaded with endless Patterson books. Record scratch. The sound of a clock ticking as he considers the books for maybe two seconds.

Text changes to "Not enough hands". The dramatic music resumes as he sprints off frame with Benny.

End card with the library logo. The words 'Not actually on fire. Everything is fine.' are typed across the screen. End description]

[readingrobin]

Y'all I went to my first title talk as a full time librarian and man am I SET.

Look at all this! They were also doing raffles the whole day and guess what?

I got MORE BOOKS.

Dang I have a good job.

[okayto]

Hey, this pride month (or literally any time of year), you wanna know something fairly easy and great you can do?

Contact your local library (or comment on their social media) positively for any pride/LGBTQIA+/queer-related displays or events they have going on.

Seriously.

What I’m seeing and hearing from the (mostly US-based) library workers in my groups and social circles is that the anti-queer (anti-gay, anti-trans, anti-drag queen story time, etc.) comments and complaints that have ramped up in the past year aren’t going away. Even library workers with supportive coworkers/bosses/boards are steeling themselves to deal with an avalanche of garbage, or are second-guessing their displays and events because the amount of vitriol can wear a person down so much. And the ones without supportive people or work environments? It’s worse.

Give the library something else: give them both the ammo (by being one of the numbers they can count worth the positive group) if they need to show their community isn’t wholly negative. Give them the compliment of knowing that their work got appreciated.

A comment like “I love this” or “Wow, that looks great!”

An email about how much you’re excited about X event

A call saying you wanted to let them know you appreciate this thing

Tagging them if you share a picture or positive comment on social media

“Cool shirt/pins/etc!” (Because people are also bring harassed about personally being queer, even if it’s not a library display)

Literally anything that would be positive for them to receive

[librarianproblems]

Watching a patron check out your display

[provokedgoalie]

visit your local library!

they need your support <3

[conservethis]

Someone abandoned this fake lemon in the library.

After several hours of noticing that it hadn’t been claimed, I decided to grab it for myself, which was easy peasy…

(sorry)