I don’t work at UT. Wrong university. Wrong city even. Believe it or not Texas has more than one university.
I don’t particularly care what the student workers are doing when there is no work to be done. The problem occurs and my “dehumanizing” reaction occurs when there is tons of work to be done and they are playing games or studying.
Desperately trying to save face, are we?
Hint: the time to unequivocally say you don’t work there was then, not now.
I avoid giving out to much personal information on the net. The fact that I am an librarian in Texas is all I reveal in general to strangers. I don’t spend 24/7 on the Dope, therefore, I don’t have time to comment on every single remark that pops up.
Take any personal issues or beefs you have with another poster to the Pit and out of this thread, please. It’s not the place for it.
No worries, I’m done. And permanently, WRT ZPG.
Like this? That is pretty hard core.
I once threw a rubber ball in anger. I was in college. It hit a mug I was fond of, which dropped to the ground and shattered. I haven’t thrown anything in anger since then.
When my brother was a kid he would pick up the board game “Risk” and toss it off the table if the game wasn’t going well. There’s no way to recover the game after that.
One time I threw a book across the room so hard that it smacked into the wall. It was a really, really awful book!
I did that, for some famous SF book about a alien society. The author kept introducing new alien words into the book, the meaning of which had to be puzzled out by context. With a liberal use of totally unnecessary apostrophes. No dictionary, no footnotes, nothing. By about page 20 it made less sense that Jabberwocky- without Humpty Dumpty to explain.
It might have been The Faded Sun: Kesrith.
It was simply unreadable to me.
I sawed a book in half once… Mailed half to the publisher and half to the author.
I duct-taped a book closed once, so it could not (easily) be opened or read ever again.
I’ve also hollowed out several books to hide keys inside. As you might expect, I choose books I don’t respect very much for this purpose.
Only once have I ever burned a book, and that was at a “blasphemy” party.
Periodically, the library will receive donations of the most odious kind (Holocaust denial, “intelligent design”, Scientology, etc.). Very horrible things often happen to these books.
Really? Is there a list of unapproved books or book types, or are employees just allowed to make their own decisions?
Librarians make the decisions based on the content needs of various subject areas. Sometimes copies of the stupid stuff is kept for the purpose of research. For example, we have copies of Holocaust denial books (cataloged as such, not as actual history books) for the purpose of research about anti-Semitism, historical denial, propaganda, etc. However, it is not necessary to waste valuable library space and time with multiple copies of that garbage. The same is true of “intelligent design”. If someone wants an example to compare against an actual biology textbook, we can provide that, but we don’t treat a donated “intelligent design” textbook as an actual science textbook or make any efforts to accumulate copies. Ditto for a lot of religious texts (Scientology sends boxes of their junk periodically). We will keep some of it for reference in case someone wants to look up quotes or doctrines from original sources, but if it has little academic value it’s going to be recycled, trashed, or used in creative ways that render it unreadable.
That’s why I gave up trying to read “Watership Down” after a couple of chapters.
The movie was much better, and also understandable.
I volunteer at a library bookstore and we get controversial things occasionally. It’s our decision whether we want to put it out or not, or list it on our Amazon account.
If we get any of the “Babywise” books, I put them into the recycle bin. Don’t know what anyone else does with them.
Someone dropped some porno DVDs in the deposit box a while back :eek: and the head of the bookstore program, who is probably about 70 years old, left them out as a prank for someone in another group she’s involved with. 
She said that the cover left NOTHING to the imagination.
Whenever this happens, we usually send the extra copies on to a reseller (in our case, Better World Books) and they decide what to do with it. We also do that with all the extra copies of Danielle Steel books and “The Da Vinci Code”. The reseller does their thing and periodically sends us a cut of the proceeds.
Grin! My local (small town) library once got a copy – a library copy, registered in the system and everything – of The Anarchists’ Cookbook.
The librarian was absolutely certain that someone was going to steal it. So…he stole it.
I once threw a Grisham book into a cornfield at 70 mph (I think I’ve told this story here) because it annoyed me that much.
I deliberately broke a vase I really liked (basically dramatically sweeping it off a desk) after I was sorely provoked. This is not my usual nature, but I married a 1/2 Sicilian and it rubs off. 
A few times in my life I have swiped at the kids’ attempt at cleaning (ha) and told them to have a do-over.
Last week I chucked a spoon, with a glob of peanut butter on it, somewhere in my spouse’s vicinity, after a trying evening. You had to be there. Whoops.