I think this is a great idea. I wrote a nonfiction book many years ago (before the Internet even) and my editor and I had to send changes back and forth through the mail system. It would have been so much easier in the cloud. I can also see that posting staff meeting minutes to the cloud would work well.
My collaboration project will be processed through this blog. What I'd like to know is: what are some of the funny (outrageous) incidents that have happened to you in your work as a librarian?
I will post them in a few weeks.
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My recent funny experience had to do with the Sharon Draper Author Visit. I had emailed and had many conversations with Barnes & Noble's book manager. On Friday before the event a co-worker said she had trouble with their order from Barnes & Noble. I thought "oh this sounds like a problem". On Monday I called and the book manager acted like he had never gotten my order and hadn't ever talked to me. My first thought was the man was senile. He did manage to get some books ordered and shipped overnight but not near the number of books that I requested. Why I think this is funny is because at the time I thought it was a catastrophe but now I can see that we lived through it. I do wonder though how Barnes & Noble stays in business with this guy ordering their books.
ReplyDeleteThere is always the Library patron who comes in and complains and complains about how dirty this author is, filthy stuff ... Then asks, "Do you have more books by them?" And there has been more than one patron that has done this. Makes me LOL.
ReplyDeleteI always think it is funny that people hear there is a new movie in the theater, and they come in and ask to check it out. Don't they understand the compnaies won't have it on DVD for a while- well I guess they don't.
ReplyDeleteSeveral months ago I was getting ready for preschool storytime. A youngster asked why Kyler wasn't doing storytime. (Kyler sings and plays gutar[very well]at storytimes, birthday parties, etc. He is very popular). I told her we take turns. That explanation did nothing for her. To get her to stay I told her I had a really cool book to read - and it was. It was the 40th Anniversary pop-up version of The Very Hungry Caterpillar. She stayed and had a good time, even though Kyler wasn't there. :oP Had that happened when I first started doing storytimes I would have been devastated. Now, I am more mature.
ReplyDeleteGreat idea to gather fun/outrageous library stories. One of my small, favorite chuckles was a point illustrating the importance of weeding-- I found a biography on Nixon in the children's section that had been written pre-watergate.
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