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bloodyrosemccoyThanks, all, for Your Thoughts On Library Science. It’s helped me narrow down some ideas for what I want to do next—I have some other ideas, too, which rather appeal to me as well.
In more immediate Liberry news, our branch’s Wheel O’ Staffing has spat out a new manager from one of the other branches, and now we get to wait while she establishes that she is an Effective Manager by fucking shit up. She has big new ideas for how the carts will be shelved, which … well, I get to see if it makes any earthly sense tonight. Should make work interesting, anyway.
Every time we get a new manager* this happens—they come in all ready to Fix Things Up because clearly we are all degenerate slackers who just need to be managed better. This lasts for about a month, during which time people explode chili sauce on the W picture books, poop in the urinals, tag the stacks, leave ice cream bars amongst the paperbacks, dump low-blood-sugared kids off to run around from the end of school until closing, and decide that the music collection labels look better on the floor.** Meanwhile the majority of the patrons, who are pretty cool, are just trying to wade through all this to use the computers for job applications, meet their ESL tutors, have community meetings, or actually god forbid FIND SOME BOOKS TO READ. At that point, the manager starts to figure out why we always look a bit swamped.
The current new manager hasn’t gotten quite there yet. I wish her the best of luck in getting this branch in decent shape, though. If she can do that, by god there should be some kind of prize.
* I’ve been there for a year and a half, and we’ve been through … let’s see … four or six, depending on how you count the assistant managers. Our branch is a revolving door.
**These have all happened.
In more immediate Liberry news, our branch’s Wheel O’ Staffing has spat out a new manager from one of the other branches, and now we get to wait while she establishes that she is an Effective Manager by fucking shit up. She has big new ideas for how the carts will be shelved, which … well, I get to see if it makes any earthly sense tonight. Should make work interesting, anyway.
Every time we get a new manager* this happens—they come in all ready to Fix Things Up because clearly we are all degenerate slackers who just need to be managed better. This lasts for about a month, during which time people explode chili sauce on the W picture books, poop in the urinals, tag the stacks, leave ice cream bars amongst the paperbacks, dump low-blood-sugared kids off to run around from the end of school until closing, and decide that the music collection labels look better on the floor.** Meanwhile the majority of the patrons, who are pretty cool, are just trying to wade through all this to use the computers for job applications, meet their ESL tutors, have community meetings, or actually god forbid FIND SOME BOOKS TO READ. At that point, the manager starts to figure out why we always look a bit swamped.
The current new manager hasn’t gotten quite there yet. I wish her the best of luck in getting this branch in decent shape, though. If she can do that, by god there should be some kind of prize.
* I’ve been there for a year and a half, and we’ve been through … let’s see … four or six, depending on how you count the assistant managers. Our branch is a revolving door.
**These have all happened.
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Date: 2011-02-02 11:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-03 01:16 am (UTC)...yeah. That's why I'm specifically aiming for Academic, not Public. I'd rather deal with I'm-A-Doctor-&-You're-Not than half the BS I saw (from patrons and managers) when working as a page in a public library.
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Date: 2011-02-03 03:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-03 04:31 am (UTC)*How to Seduce Women
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Date: 2011-02-03 05:35 am (UTC).. heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeheeheeheeheehee.