Four-part column from the Seattle Book Examiner:
“Top 20 things librarians wish patrons knew” by Danielle Dreger-Babbitt.
and finally…
Columnist Dreger-Babbitt (who has spent the last 13 years working in bookstores and libraries) adds…”Librarians, did I leave anything out? Leave your suggestions in the comments section below.”
The bigger question! What do
The bigger question! What do Library staff wish that non-users knew about the library:
Libraries have DVDs and downloadable materials, Staff are not same as your 7th grade experience….
Top 20 suggestion
When patrons go to the movies or watch a TV show, and someone confidently strides up to a microfilm reader/printer, then whizzes through the reel of film and miraculously stops on the EXACT article they’re looking for, I wish patrons knew that it just doesn’t happen that way. Actually quite the opposite. Microfilm searching a labor-intensive, time-consuming, and painstaking type of research, which, of course, librarians know all too well!