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I had a high school teacher who told us he dropped out of law school after stuff like that--like people razor-blading out crucial pages of a book containing a necessary citation.Bluedeanie posted:Got any microfilm/fiche stories? I know all the reaction they're likely to cause is exasperation from young people who have to do a school project and need to figure out how to work such archaic machinery but I have a soft spot for them. They're a uniquely library thing. When I worked for a library, one of the faculty handed off what was ostensibly a legal research project but was obviously just football fandom (he wanted to know exactly when the Redskins moved stadiums). I scrolled through a ton of Boston newspapers from the 1930s and learned a lot about Hitler and pro wrestling. Halloween Jack fucked around with this message at 21:09 on Nov 20, 2018 |
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Those books are more extreme than 50 Shades, but mainly because they come across as having been written by someone who's never had sex or even watched porn.
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I wonder what the librarian thinks when I check out books on Juche Thought that probably haven't been touched in a quarter-century.
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Nov 28, 2018 22:27
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I once checked out a YA novel and found that the last person to check it out had been my homeroom teacher, many years before.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Anne Rice herself is actually astonishingly vanilla so that would probably make sense. She said some time in an interview that she never had sex with anybody other than her husband. I think they even waited until marriage and never bothered to get up to any crazy shenanigans. After he died I guess she had no interest at all in getting remarried. You'd expect somebody that wrote that sort of thing to have first hand experience in the craziest sex imaginable but according to her interviews she just, like, doesn't do that sort of thing.
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One of the main jobs I did as a part-time shelving monkey was throwing stuff away. You wouldn't miss anything I threw away--most of it was many-volume sets of indexes to other books, none of which is necessary in the era of LexisNexis and Westlaw. Probably the only sorta-worthwhile books I threw away were enormous records of state legislature proceedings--some of the books were interesting purely as physical objects, having been bound in an era when beautiful paper marbling was standard practice. Halloween Jack fucked around with this message at 01:18 on Dec 11, 2018 |
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Granted, "Form, Die" ruins the joke a bit.
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I remember Andrew Eldritch once going on a rant about how his drum machine still runs software from the 80s because it just works.
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Working in a library got me interested in becoming a librarian. But I quickly realized that people who get the full-time jobs never leave, and even when they retire, their positions aren't filled. And this was at the library of a T14 law school with hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Did this take a dump in anyone else's brain when they were five? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DzzPDnIKtQ
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JacquelineDempsey posted:One minute, you got the very real horror of everyone wearing masks and civilization collapsing. Next minute, I'm laughing my rear end off over a library still using card catalogs in the 22nd century, and this idiot Margaret who works in the incredibly important job of preserving humanity's culture, yet doesn't know the alphabet, let alone how to find a fiction book. (That one is personally hysterical, because both my circ manager and her second in command were named Margaret.) Years ago, I would suddenly remember stuff like this, and wonder if I just dreamed it. The people delving into it were goofy personal sites like Seanbaby's. Now I can find it all on YouTube. The other one that immediately comes to mind is a regional kids' show called Mrs. Cabobble's Caboose. PBS sells a DVD collection. Halloween Jack fucked around with this message at 17:27 on Apr 17, 2020 |
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When I think of library porn I think of the Free Library of Philadelphia.
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My library prank is when I haul 150 pounds of books to the library, and it's closed because the AC is out, so I cram the book drop full and haul 125 pounds of books back to my office.
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My Lovely Horse posted:Then you get a reminder and fines for 125 pounds of books. Pranked right back!
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I don't work in a library anymore, but I recently got a call from a man who wants to donate his late father's books. The collection seems desirable, but unfortunately our whole university library system isn't accepting donations due to COVID. Sucks.
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I think we should be proactive by preventing books that no one will read from being printed in the first place. Like, maybe it should be illegal for politicians to write autobiographies. You'd lose a handful of bestsellers, sure, but save entire forests from being turned into copies of junk like Standing Firm.
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I love seeing anti-maskers die, it's my daily medicine, my weekly energy, my monthly inspiration and my yearly motivation. Their loss is the only reason I'm still alive; I was born to love and enjoy the failure that they have achieved. What are people that stupid doing in a library anyway?
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Now that I think of it, I have a proxy set up on my work laptop so that a lot of educational resources (LexisNexis, JSTOR, Kanopy, etc.) automagically know that I have my employer's access privileges. I wonder how that interacts with local and regional library systems, if at all.
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Trying to assassinate Gerald Ford is like a SNL bit. He'd dodge the bullet by accident when his trick knee gave out.
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Is there any system of organizing comic books that isn't incredibly confusing? It's easy enough to categorize e.g. a classic like A Contract With God the same as you would any other novel. But when you're stocking TPBs that compile the individual comic book series that made up a DC or Marvel crossover like the Infinite Crisis or the Infinity Gauntlet story, it's infinitely annoying to try to organize books by author.
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nashona posted:why not crossover title?
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DicktheCat posted:I just don't get the mindset of intentionally being disruptive. Why?
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I used to work with a lot of college students, and in my experience, men are more likely to watch sports on their phone with no earbuds and no regard for the fact that they're sitting outside someone's office or classroom. I don't get the impression that they're doing it deliberately, they're just too up themselves to care.
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I've been wanting to check out Prince of Tides from the local library, but I don't have a LaserDisc player.
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I remember we had these law journals that we got in print because the digital subscription was more expensive. They weren't journals, though; they were volumes of laws and regulations kept in 3-ring binders. So periodically someone had to go around taking out pages and putting in new ones to reflect changes in the law.
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grassy gnoll posted:Hey, I did those at my law library. Did you guys have the supplements where you had to literally shove a booklet into the pocket in the back of the binder?
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That's ridiculous. My barcode tattoo stopped scanning properly after like 3 days.
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