An angry patron comes stomping down the stairs to the Reference Desk. He is angry because he borrowed a book from us and then mailed it back. (Why did he mail it? I have no idea.) He is being charged for the book because it apparently never arrived. So he is here to check the shelf. Ok, no problem. He wants me to check with him. Ok, again, no problem. He tells me that he'll know it's the copy he borrowed because he UNDERLINED huge segments of the book and wrote notes in the back. When we locate the book he triumphantly shows me the blue and red ink all over the front, inside and back cover of the book. Great. Now we will know who to charge to replace the returned book.
Duh.
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Bethany and Mom and Library of Congress
Reading in the rose garden
What is Bethany the Librarian reading?
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Goose Girl by Shannon Hale
Who is Bethany the Librarian?
About Me
- Beth the Librarian
- I am a 29-year-old book lover. I live with my partner Jamie and dog Albus on Long Island and work at a public library in the Hamptons. I enjoy reading, playing with my dog, visiting my family in Maine and shopping for fun shoes.
Bethany and Mom and Library of Congress
Reading in the rose garden
Authors I Have Met
- Alison Bechdel (Fun Home)
- Amy Tan (Bonesetter's Daughter, The Opposite of Fate)
- Chang-Rae Lee (Aloft)
- David Sedaris (Me Talk Pretty One Day, et cetera)
- Doris Kearns Goodwin (Team of Rivals, Wait Till Next Year)
- Emma Donoghue (The Sealed Letter)
- Jason Pinter (The Mark)
- Lily Koppel (The Red Leather Diary)
- Lisa Lutz (The Spellman Files)
- Neil Gaiman (Neverwhere, Coraline)
- Paula Uruburu (American Eve)
- Sarah Waters (The Night Watch, The Little Stranger)
- Susan Nagel (Marie-Thérèse, Child of Terror : the Fate of Marie Antoinette's Daughter)
- Tom Wolfe (I Am Charlotte Simmons et cetera)
- Zachary Lazar (Sway)
5 comments:
hahahaha! and of course he put the book on the shelf HIMSELF before coming to get you, hoping to get out of the late fee since he never returned it/mailed it! hahaha, i love people...
NO WAY! OMG Beth, I can't believe it, what was he thinking?? Who writes in a library book and then points it out to the Librarian?
That is excellent! People are so weird.
LOL SUCKS FOR THAT PATRON. WHOEVER TOLD HIM THAT WE ARE ALLOWED TO MAIL BOOKS BACK IS BEYOND ME. LOL I WAS BORN IN THIS LIBRARY AND THEY NEVER ALLOWED ME TO MAIL A BOOK BACK WHAT WAS THIS PATRON THINKING?
You would not believe how many people mail stuff back -- mostly DVDs. You have to tell me who this was!!
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