I've just been checking my RSS feeds and have found some interesting stuff! Like Leonard Cohen is 73 and performing live to great acclaim. Being a Leonard Cohen fan from the 70s it does my heart good to see that 'music to slit your wrists by' is still appreciated. This was from the Guardian.co.uk.Books feed. Neil Diamond is 67 and also still performing to appreciative audiences - I bet they're not climbing trees to watch him.. Hullo Tree People!
On Librarian.net they mentioned the Internet Public Library. It seems to be like our Ask a Librarian but American based. All new stuff to me! Very apt cartoon that says - Public Library: Like Wikipedia only it takes 4 hours!
How about this one: Librarian fired for writing book on patrons - "A library employee in this Lake Michigan resort community has been fired for writing a book that describes a range of unpleasant patrons, from the merely unpleasant to online sex fiends, in a town she calls "Denialville." Imagine what we could write about some of our customers!
And my final interesting item - the diaries of George Orwell are being released daily in blog form 70 years after he wrote them. Check it out at:
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I was thinking about the librarian having been fired for writing about problem borrowers at xxam this morning!
It reminded me of when I did a course many hundreds of years ago in my nursing days. The woman conducting the course had been an A&E nurse and said that at one place of work they'd kept a book where the staff had recorded the funny incidents that happened in their department. Some wag had said that they should look at publishing it when the book was full.
However, when the time came that the book was full they realised that what they'd laughed at at the time had often been very sad/angry/stressful times and that the reading public would probably not understand.
I remember from my own student nurse days laughing at Lizzie a poor demented lady with cancer of the groin who said "F@#*, f@#*, F@#*ety f@#*" anytime we went near her and the young Sikh woman who, post-op, wanted the doctor to write in the discharge letter that she wasn't to have sex for 17 years! And I have giggled over a dead body.
Our mirth was born out of compassion rather than enjoying the situation, it was a mechanism to get us through the sadness/anger/stress.
And that's what we do in BM Libraries. Most of our patrons are decent, pleasant people to deal with but the various towns throw up their "problem children" and humour will go a long way to getting us through the hard times - as will the support of the colleagues we can always count on.
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