from the listserv publib:
in addition to fixing things, cleaning up gross things and working on your day off:
I think students have to learn to find their way of being comfortable with dealing with people who are clearly mentally unstable and people doing things one shouldn’t do in public.
So true. I reccomend all future librarians should start practicing important conversations with this crowd as early as possible. Start with the 'I'm so sorry, you smell so bad I'm going to have to ask you to leave' conversation. Move on to the 'No, it is not OK to respond to the voices in your head at the top of your lungs' conversation. Then, last, but never least is the 'Your 2 yo child may NOT wander the library's 1st floor alone while you're on the 2nd floor computers' conversation.
Start practicing keeping the 'Are you SERIOUSLY breeding, please tell me this is your only child' conversation inside your head now, just in case you think it might ever slip out by accident;).
o' the things i wish they'd taught me in library school.
why is it that i never really know what i'm doing?
