The lady at the library doesn't like me.... D:

[Ants In Your Pants]

Well when ever I walk in shes like.... oh s**t.... see I usually get more than 10 books at a time... Yes yes I read then in 2 weeks to a month... but heres the thing, the reason she may not like me ( i could be paranoid) I owe ..... 46$ and I pay a dollar on my fee every time I check out books....
Yes guys Ill pay it off! my doggie needs the vet first.... although a year ago my balance was 20$...... D: but there's only one car and my mom needs it and it added 20 when i lost a book in my home library...


But my question to you from me is, does this happen to you?

[BreathLessX]

Well, when I use to put books on hold, the library assitances hated me. I remember I ordered like the whole Hana-Kimi series (like 16 books then) and she had to go into the back to get them. Oh, and they don't like it when I loose my library card like every other month. ;P Thank god for the self-check outs of the 21st century :>

[your little voodoo doll]

our librarian is mean

[Infinity Outlaw]

The world is not beautiful

Whoah, $46?! How did you possibly manage that? Our library won't let you check out books anymore if your fee is over $10. I don't think I've had a fine that I can remember. Maybe back when I was still on a child's card and my parents were more in charge of getting me to the library I did. (My mom gets a fifteen cent fine every once in a while for returning/renewing a few books late.) Our librarians have been fairly nice the few times I've talked to them, so no complaints there. On the other hand we do have a police officer always stationed in the library (I think because it's right across from the high school) and he tends to follow me around when I'm the only younger looking patron there. He stares at me when I put books in the book return like he thinks I'm going to reach in and start stealing books or something.

Therefore it is.

[Klaark]

Our librarians didn't like us either. We only used the computers and space to play D&D. I told them they should ad more computers one day, got told "library" was Latin for "book."

I wonder what's Latin for "obsolete?"

[Psychotic Bovine]

I was always the good little Bookworm. I rarely brought my books back past the due-date, never lost books, and if I got a fine, I'd pay it off fairly quickly. I also used the computers alot, and the tech people always recognized me. I was the little geek-girl trying to make pokeymanz sprites out of mudkips and pikachus. biggrin

[Eizoryu]

Klaark

Our librarians didn't like us either. We only used the computers and space to play D&D. I told them they should ad more computers one day, got told "library" was Latin for "book."

I wonder what's Latin for "obsolete?"

... Your librarians were more than a bit off the mark. Liber is "book" and is the root for the English "library". Bibliothēca is Latin for "library" or "collection of books", and is only Latinized Greek.

If you really wanna know, Obsolēscō is "obsolete" or "worn out".
Don't make fun of me, I don't get to make use of my Classical Latin courses very often. ;-;

On topic: I don't go to libraries anymore, but I never racked up a fine greater than a dollar when I was a kid. Mom kinda made sure of that, though. xD

[Tsalagi_Phoenix]

I've never gotten a fine. I always make sure my books are back on time.
But I think some of the people there get annoyed with me because I always put a lot of books on hold.

[RyanInATeacup]

One of the head librarians at my library is a very stern lady and I had the misfortune to deny a visitor assistance when she was within earshot and she promptly came over and chastised me for being rude to a visitor, then told me to go help them. The only trouble is, I don't work at the library and I'm nhot sure why people always assume I do. She really didn't like me telling her I wasn't a librarian and she's I've had to avoide her since then. O.o

[Kaarna]

Hmm, that's weird. I'm a librarian, and I don't get mad at people for returning books late, ordering them or putting them on hold, because it's my job to handle that. I might get irritated just a little if someone returns a book wet or ripped and tries to sue his/her dog about it, but I certainly won't remember this person after s/he has paid for it.

Here in Finland librarians have heard about this thing called service. Are you sure your librarians haven't? Or are you the ones who lose or destroy every single book you borrowed? I can understand the negative reaction if you are... because every lost book is a book that isn't available to other people anymore. And libraries don't happen to have an infinite source of money. In Finland we have to create more and more new services with less and less money - well, it's the law - and the collected fees go straight to municipal corporation's bottomless purse. Libraries don't get a penny of it.

Someone wanted more computers in his local library. Probably the mean librarian has already asked for them, too. The problem always is: there's no money, not enough staff, we have more important things to put money into (like buying new copies of the books you lost), not enough space and we need the renovation, too...

Ah, the youngsters at a library. Teenagers and computers don't mix well at public libraries: gaming makes noise, aggressive teenagers and irritated librarians. The most important use of computers in libraries is the information retrieval. If there's no-one waiting to use the computer for it and you are keeping quiet, I can't see why you shouldn't play.

[Tiggermyk]

Yeeeeah...y'all sure you're reading the librarians' reactions correctly? I'm not a librarian, per se, but I do work at a library. As Kaarna said, as long as you're not the ones destroying the books or disrupting the whole building every time you walk in, then the librarians probably don't mind you nearly as much as you think they do.

And if they truly don't like you because you're reading "too much," then they really aren't in the right profession, are they?

[We who have Fallen]

I've never had a fine so I wouldn't know how any librarians I've known would react to that, but I've had a few... unhappy ones.

I'm always quiet, I rarely touch the computers except for 'information retrieval', never had a fine, the books I borrow come back in the same condition they left in and the only time I 'lost' a library card, I hadn't been in so long that its place in my wallet was required for something else and I couldn't remember which bag I put the library card in.

So when I've come across the unhappy librarians (constantly cranky, frowns or even glares at teens and children) I'm always shocked. I realize that I was reading books above my age level and I totally get that for the majority of my life I was in the 1% of people my age that appreciated and cared for books... BUT COME ON!

I would expect that after my tenth visit, you'd either recognize me by face or by card as that girl that reads very quickly and is very nice to the books. I don't like to socialize or talk in libraries, I always prefer to grab books an leave rather than loiter or use tables and chairs... I certainly don't have food or drink with me.

And because I love books and libraries so much, meeting librarians that are less than polite to me is always devastating. Yes, devastating, that same word I use to describe the feeling of losing a beloved pet or finding a damaged book.

[FriendshipisPowerful]

We had this reading program at my library where if you read a certain number of books in a period of a month you got a prize, it was for 6-8 year olds, and every year they had a different theme, one year was cowboy, another was baseball. One year it was clown themed, and i got a pair of giant inflatable clown shoes, so i put them on and started walking around, the librarian gave me an evil stare and told me to take them off. Every time I walked into the library the librarian would give me scary lookin' stares like i was still wearing the clown shoes. We moved since then so I neeevver saw her again.

[bluelily3]

That happened to me yesterday. I came in right when they opened, (at 1:00) and since it was a Tuesday, when they open later, I forgot they had just opened. I asked for the four books I had ordered from another library, even though she (one of the librarians) hadn't gone through them yet. Then I apologized as I realized, "Hey, they just opened, give them a break!" But after that I grabbed 7 more books and added it to the pile. I think she may have rolled her eyes at me. I can't help it librarians are mostly old ladies and hate their job! And I do have a compulsive problem where I grab a ton of them off the shelves. It's especially dangerous if I bring my big bag. biggrin