What Do Public Library Workers Do? (2011)

Re:What Do Public Library Workers Do? (2011) by jacobolus on Friday August 19, 2016 @09:16AM (#12319720)

All the public library librarians I know are amazing. All the university librarians I know are amazing.

For whatever reason though, all the secondary school librarians I ever interacted with (admittedly, a small sample) were the worst kind of petty bureaucrats, who seemed to revel in being deliberately unhelpful, usually for some kind of pedantic trivial reason.

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Re:What Do Public Library Workers Do? (2011) by JoeAltmaier on Friday August 19, 2016 @09:18AM (#12319729)

Because of their clientele? They deal with double-talking rules-lawyers all day long. Develop a thick skin and zero tolerance, or they don't last long.

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Re:What Do Public Library Workers Do? (2011) by cafard on Friday August 19, 2016 @09:28AM (#12319796)

Richard Nixon was president when I last dealt with a secondary school librarian, but for what it is worth, I recall her as very pleasant. In junior high I was a library page, and though I no longer have any recollection of the paid staff, they must have been OK to work with, or I'd have quit or never started.

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Re:What Do Public Library Workers Do? (2011) by veddox on Friday August 19, 2016 @11:45AM (#12320852)

Can't confirm that - while my school librarians weren't exceptional in any sense, they certainly were not as bad as you describe.

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