HIDE!!!

Alright, as a reference librarian I have a tendency to run away from approaching board members. Call it instinct, but I know the moment they come in through the front doors of the library. Okay, maybe I can smell them coming because of their over excessive use of expensive colognes, but you get the drift.

So what does the reference librarian have to be afraid of?... MY LIFE!!! I'm deathly afraid of people with power, so what do I do when they come in through the front door? I go into 'ghost mode' and disappear into the stacks. What happens when the director starts looking for me because the board members want to see me?

Even more so I hide. Call me chicken, I know, but I can't help it. People with power are S.C.A.R.Y... So what was the reason for the board members visit? Well after spending most of the day hidden and finally feeling the heavy presence of the board members gone, I head back to work. Director mad, me... don't care.

Director: "Didn't you know I was looking for you?"

Me: "Yup."

Stunned Director: "Then why didn't you come say hi to the board member?"

Me: "Can't. I'm allergic to them."

Director giving me a weird look: "Anyway, they wanted to say well done."

Praise from a board member... never a good thing...


You got to love Librarian-Hood...

Bluetooth vs Director

Alright, so our library has just installed all these new fancy bluetooth scanners, and headsets. Well, our director is what you would call a non-technological person. So my job as the IT/Ref librarian in-tells that I teach her how to use them. Like I've said, not technologically advanced.

Director: "Why isn't this plugged in?"

Me: "You don't have to."

Director: "Why not, if it's not connected to the computer I can't... what did you call it at the last board meeting... communicate with it?"

Me: "It goes through radio waves."

She gives the lipped 'O' and sets to scanning books for the first time. Falls in love with it and goes on a book scanning rampage. Next day, I'm busy behind my reference desk, working on yet another online reference question when the Director comes up looking a bit bed-ragged. Looking up, I ask, "What's up?"

"Ref! THIS THING DOESN'T WORK!!!!"

I look at the little yellow bluetooth hand-held laser and ask in a monotone, "Did you take it over to the computer and then press the trigger."

A moments hesitation and then she disappears, and reappears all glowing happily as she says, "IT WORKED!!!!"

You got to love Librarian-Hood....