Adventures In Book Shelving

[bloodyrosemccoy]

Historic Moments In Library Aiding

Today was the first day I ever got followed around by a couple of hovery patrons while I shelved the fiction cart.

Granted, they were looking for Dan Brown and Nora Roberts, respectively, but still. It wasn’t DVDs!

Also, I picked up a small satellite while putting the kids’ DVDs away, in the form of a five-year-old girl telling me stuff. I now know everything relevant to her interests: how many stuffed animals she has, which water swides she can go down at Raging Waters and which are too big for her, when she’ll turn six, that her dad got a new house, and that her favorite colors are pink and popul. My co-worker pointed and laughed all day as I’d wander by with a book truck followed by my enthusiastically autobiographical buddy.

Eh, it’s a tradeoff for the days I can enjoy a nice quiet block of shelving. I enjoy it while it lasts.

Comments

[kadharonon.livejournal.com]

I used to get preteen boys. One day they discovered my name, and wandered after me asking if I was related to Martha Stewart.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Somehow I am a champion shut-downer of preteen boys. I think I scare them in my 5'4" doughy fierceness or something.

Five-year-olds are immune to this, though.

[michellerz.livejournal.com]

and that her favorite colors are pink and popul.

5-year-olds are the BEST. XD

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Hee hee! I always thought it was a cruel twist of fate that gave that color a really hard name to pronounce.

[queenlyzard.livejournal.com]

Oh, it was probably done on purpose so that we can hear the cute mispronunciations. Ditto with "yellow".

[dark-phoenix54.livejournal.com]

Fastest way to get rid of the hoverers is to just see if there is any of their desired books in the cart and shove them at the hoverer. That usually delights them and they go away squeeing.

No way to get rid of small satillites, though, unless you can pawn them off on the children's librarian...

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

I try that, but half the time "Are you looking for anything specific" is met with "No, I'm just browsing."

With the DVDs I just tell them I will get them put away and then they can look. Some respond better to this than others ...

[queenlyzard.livejournal.com]

too cute!