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I hope it's not some kind of auto-erotic thing...

Tiny Little Librarian — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:30:00 GMT

At least twice now over the past few weeks, my colleague has received a hang-up phone call at the info desk. But before hanging up, he hears the definite sound of a plastic bag being crinkled into the phone. We have no idea what's up with that.

Everyone needs support sometimes

Tiny Little Librarian — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:34:00 GMT

One of our circ clerks brought over a stack of new books, and it included this one: She said: “This is going to be very unprofessional of me to say, but this woman just isn’t getting the support she needs!” &n

I'm sure you do a marvelous job of it, sir...

Tiny Little Librarian — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 02:12:00 GMT

I haven't run into this guy, but my colleague at the circulation desk was telling us that there's a not-quite-yet-elderly man who delights in bringing up books with titles like "How to Please a Woman" to the checkout counter and mak

Welcome back to work...

Tiny Little Librarian — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:51:00 GMT

My first day back was fairly uneventful, but I was the person in charge, so I got to pick up a poo nugget that a leaky diaper had left behind in the children's department. The sad thing is, it was no big deal - it was solid! I've had much wor

I'm back!

Tiny Little Librarian — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 02:44:00 GMT

Sorry for the absence, I've been on a 3-week (woo hooo!) vacation, so have had no work stories. To tide us over, here's a quote from an interview with Neil Gaiman about winning the Newbery in the March 2009 edition of School Library Journal,

I. Am. Canadian!

Tiny Little Librarian — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 18:13:00 GMT

A black guy sporting a very “I am African” red-green-yellow hat (sorry, it probably has a proper name, but I don't know it) approached the desk and said (in an obviously African accent), “Canadian?” I nodded or murmured so

Apparently you have had no contact with pop culture for the last 3 or 4 years...

Tiny Little Librarian — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 02:52:00 GMT

An approaching-middle-aged woman asked for a book, she didn’t know the author but she thought it was called Twilight. I asked if it was the vampire book. No, it wasn’t, she was definite about that. So I showed her the half-dozen or so boo

Is this a bad sign?

Tiny Little Librarian — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 02:31:00 GMT

Last week during storytime I totally blanked on the middle of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. That can't be good. I sing that song a minimum of once a week and if it's really busy, program-wise, up to 7! Apparently after 10 years, children's

Still small

Tiny Little Librarian — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:35:00 GMT

The other day I was in the elevator on my way our the door to work when the other person in it said "You have really small feet!!!!!! What size are they? 5?" I said yeah, 5 1/2, 6... "No way are they 6!" Um, yes, that's what t

Yep, I'm really that small, apparently

Tiny Little Librarian — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 03:15:00 GMT

The other day I overheard the on-call who was working with me tell the rather pesky old man she was helping on the computer (for the 3rd or 4th time) that there was someone waiting for her at the desk, she had to go. I thought that was a bit odd, as

Refgrunt

Tiny Little Librarian — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 02:10:00 GMT