Library Revolution

Library Staff Member: “Those ‘Bonus Feature’ DVDs? We usually don’t have the right cases to hold them and the movie… especially if the movie is more than one disc, or if it’s one of those TV shows. So we just throw them out. Nobody really wants that stuff, right?”

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At the Long Island Association’s Negotiation workshop:

ME: Hi, It’s nice to meet you. I’m Emily Clasper from Suffolk Cooperative Library System.

LI BUSINESS PERSON: (looking me up and down with surprise): Oh! I thought you were from a business!

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My son’s teacher: “I can’t believ eI had over $8.00 in library fines! I haven’t even been there in at least a month!”

My husband: “Well, maybe that’s why.”

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Library staff member: “That seems inefficient. A duplication of work. You do know that would NEVER happen in the business world.”

yeah. right.

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A Friend of mine (talking about me): Books? Oh, no! Em isn’t that kind of librarian!

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Unnamed vendor to a room full of librarians: “How many of you still use paper journals to do your ordering?”

(Every single hand in the room goes up.)

Vendor: (blinking, taken aback) “Oh.”

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