thankstolibrarians

This Is What a Librarian Looks Like: A Celebration of Libraries, Communities, and Access to Information | Kyle Cassidy

1. Weekdays 2-5
2. programming, no classes
3. Yes! 3/week
4.🤷🏼‍♀️ but Banned Books is always my favorite!
5. The Chilbury‘s Lady Choir
6. no
7. Libraries Rock, we have programs & prizes for adults
8. No
9. 99 items at a time. 3 weeks, DVD‘s (7 days) & new 7 day books. Renew 5 X‘s
10. We have a $15 max fine / item or the price but 99 items can get you in trouble!
11. Yes, Valerie Tripp is our most popular
12. 🤷🏼‍♀️
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Kaye

Kaye Thank you @Cortg . Chilbury Ladies Choir was really good. That‘s great that you have Summer reading programs for adults too. Makes it more fun for everyone. 7y

Cortg I ❤️ your interest and shout out for libraries and librarians! @Kaye 7y

Kaye Yes, I don‘t think librarians always get the recognition or thanks they deserve. I thought more of them would be interested in sharing more about their job. I like visiting different libraries and seeing what all they do at each one. It‘s fascinating. (edited) 7y

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Librarybelle

The Librarian's Book of Lists | George M. Eberhart

I‘m a public librarian! #thankstolibrarians

1. Lunch rush and dinner rush and opening queue up to be the 1st person to get the newspapers
2. I‘m in charge of programming for 18+ year olds and am starting to add programs other than book discussions. My staff also do one on one technology help.
3. Yes - for babies, toddlers and preschoolers
4. Staff picks! Also the most used. We had to expand it to a second floor (my dept is on two floors)
...con‘t

Kaye

IamIamIam Oh my GAWD, I absolutely NEED the tagged book!!!!!! 7y

Librarybelle 5. The kids area has discussions for kids of all ages. I currently run two for adults - Mystery and Historical fiction. We‘re reading Finding Nouf for mystery and Girl Waits with Gun for historical. 6. Yes - incorporating it somehow into Summer Reading this year and maybe a local top books. 7. Theme is music oriented - Libraries Rock. See above answer! 8. No, but... 7y

Librarybelle ...patrons can do purchase requests. 9. Three week checkout for everything, except 90 day paperbacks, and we‘re currently changing the renewal limits in the next few months. 10. Let‘s just say there‘s a lot of zeroes. 11. Yes! Bestselling and local authors. Laura Lippman visited last year. Christina Baker Kline is coming in September... 7y

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Librarybelle 12. “Adult DVDs? You mean you guys have porn?” “What do you mean I need to give you my name to get a library card? Can‘t I just take the books I want?” So many, many more stories. Let‘s meet up for drinks sometime, or wait until I write my book! 7y

Librarybelle @IamIamIam 📚❤️ 7y

Kaye Thanks @Librarybelle It certainly sounds like you are so enthused about your job. That‘s great. What kind of turnout do you get for the discussion groups ? They have pretty tiny ones in our local libraries. Funny questions. As if a library would offer porn videos. Geez ! Is your library in a small town or large ? 7y

Librarybelle @Kaye I have my hands in so many things at the library, I could probably talk everyone to death. We have a very good turnout for both adult discussions - I have a core group of 8 of us for mystery, with a few people who are hit or miss, and I think I‘m up to 8-10 regulars for historical fiction. I‘m in a small town, Gettysburg, so small but many tourists and lots of foot traffic. 7y

Kaye That‘d be such a neat place to do historical book discussions . That‘s a good turnout too. The ones around here seem to have trouble getting off the ground. Not sure why. I have high hopes for our library downtown. The head librarian is retiring and they e hired a younger girl in her early 40s I‘d guess. She ALWAYS has a book recommendation for you. She‘s quite the reader herself so maybe she‘ll get more things like that going. 7y

Librarybelle @Kaye Hopefully she will! 7y

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Grrlbrarian

This Is What a Librarian Looks Like: A Celebration of Libraries, Communities, and Access to Information | Kyle Cassidy

academic librarian here #thankstolibrarians
1. Monday PM
2. we host speakers sometimes.
3. If someone‘s trying to get out of a fine 😉
4. Native American culture.
5. No
6. Nope! It‘s after finals - students are gone
7. None and nope.
8. Yes! In 2 spots
9. 1 mo (students) & 6 mo (faculty). 150 items
10. Thousands
11. Yep! Sally Walker, Kevin Stein, etc
12. “Isn‘t it a shame there‘s nowhere on campus you can get books without buying them?” 😳

Kaye

Kaye I bet you have heard some stories about damaged or missing books. Someone actually owed thousands on a fine ? Wow, did they pay it ? 7y

Grrlbrarian It was a professor who retired with over 100 books still missing - and academic books can be pricey. Last I heard, he still hadn‘t paid! 😱 7y

Grrlbrarian The most interesting ‘damaged book‘ story came from a student whose car was stolen and set on fire with his library book inside. He said, “I can bring you the police report and maybe some ashes.” I removed the item from his record! 7y

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