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a pop culture addled mind

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Whatever floats my boat. Or your boat. A metaphorical boat. The Love Boat? You know what? Let's get away from this analogy. There is no boat. I promise. (There may be boats.)
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natalieleif

Seeing a steady rise of people using the library as we carry through summer break, so here's a quick thread from a staff member on little things you can do (for free!) to make life easier on staff. Let's go!

  1. If you want to put a book back, DON'T put it back on the shelf! Put it on the return cart or bin, or give it to a staff member. Not only does this make it MUCH easier to catch misfiles and gather abandoned books in one trip, our budget is literally based on returns. Putting it on a cart gives us more money!
  2. (To expand on the above: not only do we get paid more based on more returns, our book-buying budget for next year is based on what titles seem popular. Even if you don't check out a stack of books, putting it on the cart lets us know there's an interest so we can order more in that genre and support that author.)
  3. Conversely, if you see a cart already full of books being pushed around by staff, PLEASE don't yank books off it or loiter around it. Carts are unwieldy and returns can build up quick, so let a shelver have space to move around and do their job.
  4. (Again expanding on the above, especially please don't yank books off a staff person's cart if you see them pulling books off the shelf instead of putting them back. Books are pulled for a reason--hold requests for another patron, damaged, need to be relabeled, etc--so taking one can really throw off our list.)
  5. If you rent a DVD and notice it's scratched or doesn't play, please tell us! We don't have the time or resources to watch every returned DVD, so we rely on patron feedback. Even a note tucked inside the case helps it get flagged for damage inspection when we're processing returns.
  6. Pay attention to news related to your local branch! The VAST majority of book-banning demands we get are bulk lists from only one or two people--which means contesting them (or requesting a challenged book) also only takes one person.
  7. Remind your friends that most libraries don't do late fees anymore! We want to be a safe haven for low income and disabled/nd people, so don't let being late or disorganized or poor or anything else discourage you. Bring your books back whenever you can, or just mention to a librarian if you lose it, and you're always welcome to come back.
#libraries#this librarian co-signs this message
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manuscripts-dontburn

Prepare to be disappointed and maybe amused.

In December 2023 I organized a trip to Prague for my class and we booked a professional guide who created a fun game full of historical facts. The kids competed in groups by answering questions as we proceeded to go around and over the Charles Bridge, where THIS plague is situated under one of the statues. There we stopped, seeing a couple petting the dog, and the guide suddenly asked:

"Do you know what they are petting the dog?"

And the kids were all like: "For good luck!"

Instead, we got: "Because they are idiots!"

And then he told us he is a friend with a historian and a statistician, who got merry in a pub one night and made a bet. That same night they took some cleaning chemicals and polished the dog - which had never been petted by people before and was as ignored as everything around it - and installed a small camera on a nearby lamppost. They just wanted to know if more or less than 100,000 people would touch the dog in a month now that it looked like it was "lucky." It was really just a psychological test of how impressionable people are.

It was way, way more and ever since people still pet it. But it was not something that happened on its own. It was a drunken bet between two academics.

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taraljc

see, I have a completely different view. A drunken bet between two academics produced something kind of wonderful whereas a drunken bet between two authors gave us Scientology which is a genuine scourge on humanity.

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dovesndecay

I went to the library to borrow some DVDs we're planning to watch, but when I handed the librarian my card, it took me a solid 15 seconds to register that I handed her my fucking weed card.

Me, fumbling to swap it out: "OH MY GOD, I AM SO SORRY, I was on total autopilot!!"

The librarian: "It's all good, I just assumed it was a flex."

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dovesndecay
#hee
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lillywhitefield

I would like to point out that in the part of the trailer where Colin is asking Violet about love and friendship, she is wearing the same dress as the Moon/Star ball still that we got earlier, and it's confirmed to be in ep 2.

This man is already asking his mum about being in love with your best friend in EPISODE 2

#EEEEEEE#polin#bridgerton
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iverna

okay but the fact that Leia was interested in ships and knew a lot about them makes her roasting the Falcon immediately even more savage

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like she wasn’t just having a go at him for the hell of it or because his ship was a likely target, no no, Leia takes one look at Han’s ship and knows exactly how crap it is

#HEE#star wars#leia organa
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audible301

Oh that face is Brennan realizing how predictable he is. That card got created in an hour with no notice.

Congrats Mike Trapp you may have also gotten played but truly you won.

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