"heaven help us if the library caught on fire ..."
i just returned from the library where the librarian checked my books out *by hand. no, no. not by scanning them with a little barcode scanner thing, as the library catalog is shut down for upgrades, but rather by writing down my card number and the barcodes and call numbers of the books by hand ... with a pen ... on a really long list of paper. while waiting, i noticed the name of an illustrious colleague as the first, er, customer on the list for today.
i wanted him to stamp my books vigorously with one of those old school stamper things and slide them across the counter like marian the librarian in the 1962 warner bros. production of the music man. come to think of it the librarian did look a little like robert preston.
a musical dance number in the main floor common area with all those jenns from soc shuffling around in their uggs would have been fab too.
i wanted him to stamp my books vigorously with one of those old school stamper things and slide them across the counter like marian the librarian in the 1962 warner bros. production of the music man. come to think of it the librarian did look a little like robert preston.
a musical dance number in the main floor common area with all those jenns from soc shuffling around in their uggs would have been fab too.
posted by Amanda Bonner at 7:24 p.m.
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Those cards where you also saw the names of all the people who'd checked out the book ahead of you, remember those, too?
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