When I started as a clerk at Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh- East Liberty, I had no idea that being a librarian was a thing. I just needed a job. I didn’t even care about libraries!
It is totally a thing. We do things like this. And there are lists like this. Even Legos!
Here are some funny yet informative things librarians look at (during lunch breaks of course.)
Sometimes books need to be thrown away. Sometimes a librarian can’t do it. These are the (often unintentional) hilarious results.
Pretty awful, yes?
It’s exactly what it sounds like. Sexy pictures of all things book-related. Unlike regular porn, this will lead to DIY projects.
Book review websites can be so pretentious. As a voracious reader who will read anything, I love that Book Riot covers everyone from J.K. Rowling to Dave Eggers to James Patterson. Plus, they have a pretty awesome “mission” statement:
We create. We always prefer the book to the movie. We riot as a team. We geek out on books, embarrassingly so. We’re leaders. We practice charity. We miss our subway stop cause the book is that good. We are non-traditional. We believe in family (bookshelves and cats count).
I love these lists. I love the reasons people give for loving their top ten or twenty or thirty. I’m amazed at how many books show up over and over again. Good is good.
Working with the public can be…challenging. It’s also inspiring, funny and fascinating.
Problems. We got ’em. Books are for nerds!? You cut our funding?!?!
Like dog shaming but for bad librarians. Billed as a “place for those of us in libraryland to come clean” Librarian Shaming has confessions ranging from the awful to the sublime. My own confession? I dropped a Bestseller in the tub. My very first week of work.
Your librarian really doesn’t hate you. She hates someone else. Like the guy cutting his toenails at the computer desk.
suzy, who has never cut her toenails in public and tries to be good.
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