Library!

[tamaranth]

GOOD: Cambridge Central Library finally open after nearly 2 years of moving / improving.
BAD: The building in the Grand Arcade could not be more different from the traditional look and feel of libraries.
Gone are the brown carpets and big enquiry desks, replaced with colourful flooring, bright seats, and roaming staff.

OMG NO. If a member of staff roams up to me I shall bite them.

Comments

[birdsflying]

You have to be careful, we're like ninjas. You'll be happily browsing the colourful shelves and WHAM!, unexpected roaming librarian.

I got an A+ in Roaming and Library Jiujitsu in my Masters!

[lj_stowaway]

"If a member of staff roams up to me I shall bite them. "

Been spending too much time with Ozymandias, have we?

[desperance.livejournal.com]

This is why I am glad to have the Lit & Phil (http://www.litandphil.org.uk). I like the traditional look and feel of a library, damn it...! And Newcastle has also finally opened its new Central Library, and I went in and the staff were charming to me and when they asked me what I thought I did just about manage to bite back the obvious question, "Um, where are all the, y'know, books...?" - but it was very much what I was thinking. Lots of space, lots of light, lots of computers. Damn few books.

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

If a member of staff roams up to me I shall bite them.

Now that's a criminal record worth having - gratuitous librarian-biting! It's what Eve would do if she had a fruit allergy.

[swisstone.livejournal.com]

Brilliantly, they seem to have concluded that a manned issue desk is unnecessary, and everyone will be able to handle self-issue and self-return without a hitch.

Yeah, that'll work.

[ladymoonray.livejournal.com]

*cries with laughter*

Please don't bite anybody before our holiday. I don't want to go on my own! And make sure you're out of prison before the wedding.

[marypcb.livejournal.com]

roaming librarians; are they much more expensive than the normal kind, and regulated by the EU?

[uitlander]

Hmm. I can't say I'm impressed by the website. No information on what ID you need to bring if you want a library card and the instruction to contact them through FarcebOrked. This means I shall have to walk the whole 500 yards to their front door to see if I can snag myslf one of these 'roaming librarians'. BTW, do you think any of them may be available for loan?

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

shall plead insanity: "I assumed I must be hallucinating -- after all, everyone knows librarians are affixed to the Enquiries desk by a thin chain -- so thought it would probably be okay to snack on figment!librarian ..."

[ms-cataclysm.livejournal.com]

Eating people is wrong. I read that in a book.

[perlmonger.livejournal.com]

Eating people is better than eating books though: more nutritious. There are kinks to be ironed out of book self-reproduction too, so people still are easier and cheaper to replace.

And people generate greenhouse gases. So you'd be helping the fight against climate change.

»parp«

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

Oh, no: I love librarians but I couldn't manage a whole one. Plus I have no idea of how many calories the average librarian would contain. (Possibly the roaming ones are leaner.)

[owlrigh.livejournal.com]

Ahaha.

I've been in lots of different libraries, and when push comes to shove, I have decided upon the following criteria for liking a library:

1. Comfy reading chair(s)
2. Good selection of science fiction/fantasy and science-oriented works, especially magazines so I can keep up with what's latest
3. Easy check-out facilities (i.e. I really love those self-checkout machines, because stupid people don't try to line-jump and then get all uppity when you tell them where the end of the line is)

You can tell when you spend too much time in the library when a librarian sees you and does a double-take and asks if you went home overnight... ;)