From McSweeny's, this is both very funny and very poignant. A working day's worth of tweets from a public librarian.
Boy wants book on how to make paper airplanes. I challenge him to a paper airplane contest.
about 3 hours ago from web
*snip*
Ask patron not to talk on their cell phone. They explain that the cell phone designated area is too loud.
about 8 hours ago from web
These are an actual day's worth or tweets from public librarian Scott Douglas, author of Quiet, Please: Dispatches from a Public Librarian
(Via Rachel Walden.)
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So here's the rather strange story.
My Stealth Librarianship Manifesto post from last month continues to gather comments and page views, albeit at a slower rate than before. Of course, that's very gratifiying to see.
I don't hear as much curiosity from the research community as I'd like to about what a librarian knows and does, but I do hear some.
From the University of Toronto Academic Librarians' blog: