I Work at a Public Library
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3.6
Gina Sheridan
Straight from the library--the strange and bizarre, ready to be checked out!From a patron's missing wetsuit to the scent of crab cakes wafting through the stacks, I Work at a Public Library showcases the oddities that have come across Gina Sheridan's circulation desk. Throughout these pages, she catalogs her encounters with local eccentrics as well as the questions that plague her, such as, "What is the standard length of eyebrow hairs?" Whether she's helping someone scan his face onto an online dating site or explaining why the library doesn't have any dragon autobiographies, Sheridan's bizarre tales prove that she's truly seen it all.Stacked high with hundreds of strange-but-true stories, I Work at a Public Library celebrates librarians and the unforgettable patrons that roam the stacks every day.
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Author
Gina Sheridan
Pages
160
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Published Date
2014-07-04
ISBN
1440576254 9781440576256
Ratings
Google: 4
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"For those who understand "Oranges and Peaches": Admittedly, only my fellow librarians will find this as hysterically funny as I do, but surely everyone can appreciate these actual patron encounters:<br/><br/>*The woman who rails about her no-good ex being able to send her email...who then acknowledges that she does not have an email account.<br/><br/>*The patron who asks about Google, Word, and Internet Explorer,and then asks "Which do you prefer?"<br/><br/>...and many, many more tales of misunderstandings, mild insanity and bodily fluids. As I have often said, in my 25 years as a librarian, I have cleaned up every single human bodily fluid...except perhaps bile.<br/><br/>Rock on librarians! The few, the proud, the tragically misunderstood.<br/><br/><br/><br/>"
Lesley Williams