Act I, Sc 1
Lights up on a urban college campus, the undergraduate library. Sara is sitting at the reference desk. Patron, a young undergraduate male with multiple piercings and a “I’m a smartass thug attitude”, approaches her.
Patron: Hi, I, umm, need this article. See, one of my professors wrote a scholarly article and wants me [...]
Tuesday nights are by far my favorite time to work. Aside from the fact that my library stalker routinely plants his ass at computer number 4 no later than two and doesn’t leave until we close at nine, always making a point to come up and tell me something creepy like “he was at the [...]
Yay, I know where to shop if I ever need to buy a present for a patron!
(is it sad that I haven’t even graduated yet and I’m already this cynical?)
The best thing about working in a library? A never ending supply of reading material whenever you go to lunch. Which you gotta have, because the librarians and staff where I work just aren’t socializers. The staff break room is a very odd place. Imagine if you took all the loners in high school, [...]
I’ll admit it, academically I am a perfectionistic over-achiever. A big old nerd. Oddly enough though, growing up my parents never really outwardly pushed academic excellence, always instead saying “They’re your grades, get what you want.” Which proves that they are experts in psychological warfare. Because you just can’t say that to a quietly competitive [...]
And NOT in a good way.
Earlier this week I was at work, sitting at the desk in the tech center, when my library stalker comes up to me. On the surface he seems harmless enough but something about him just gives me the creeps. He’s a very large, older man with coke bottle glasses, [...]
And possibly one of you as well. I know I shouldn’t make assumptions. Really, I do. Especially in my line of work. It’s especially important not to make any when dealing with a patron. The ALA Code of Ethics states
“We protect each library user’s right to privacy and confidentiality with respect to information [...]
One of the many reason I chose to work in theatre for such a long time was because it attracted interesting people. I could live with the low pay, uneasiness about where the next paycheck was coming from, and the constant stress to produce miracles out of thin air as long as I knew that [...]
