Have you ever noticed how ticked off librarians get when you try to re-shelve books? I would, I'm one of them. Every Saturday, I work at my cities public library for four hours. Even with just my few hours, I've come to the conclusion that it shouldn't be the dentists who have the highest job suicide rate, but the librarians.
Can you imagine sitting in front of 9 zillion books all day, trying to sort out the Nesbits from the Nersbits and 438-M19 from 438-M26? Working at the library is painful and dangerous. That's right I said dangerous. Every week I come home from working at the library with scratched up hands, bleeding from every pour and bulging to the size of the moon from caluses. And By the way, have you seen how tall the shelves are at the library? They at least have to be 50 ft! Okay fine, maybe they're not 50 feet, but I'm a little short so that kind of puts things in perspective. If you thought trying to reach books on the top shelves was bad, try putting away books up there.
If one tiny book leans in the wrong direction, you're history. That's another thing. Have you ever noticed how the the heaviest, deadly books are always on the top shelves? I've decided this is a communist conspiracy made to destroy all of the complaining library pages like myself.
I don't think anyone ever really notices how easy it would be to sabotage the library. This is the reason librarians are so snappy about not putting away books. If one book is put in the wrong place, it can be lost for centuries, and when someone needs that books it's the librarians who get blamed. If you were to just move books to different shelves, you could reek havoc for all the people at the library. If you decide to try this, please don't try on Saturdays when I'm there.
Well anyways, I could go on forever and ever about my complaints about the my amazingly intense job of working at the library, but I don't want to excite you too much. So as you can see librarians like myself deserve more credit for what they do. From now on after you've read this blog I hope that you will have a different perspective on librarians and smile knowningly when they complain about mis-shelved books.
1 comment:
You truly have a gift--I could roll on the ground and laugh, but then I wouldn't be able to read what you write. I empathize with you; I'm a library volunteer. We should get together some time and organize a boycot against companies that don't make only eye-level book shelves. We could wreck havic.
P.S. How was your day?
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