Anonymous Patron writes “‘Fluke’ leaves library users locked out: Dozens of would-be patrons of the North Side’s Sulzer Regional Library waited outside for up to an hour Sunday because the main door was inexplicably locked past opening time, even though library employees buzzed around inside.
As it turned out, only one library employee had the main door key Sunday — and that person didn’t show up at work as scheduled, said Chicago Public Library spokeswoman Ruth Lednicer. So, library patrons waited outside until a manager could be called in to open up.”
Silly library
This is why the keys to open up the main doors of our library are kept INSIDE the library!
Who wants to be the sole one responsible for bringing that key back and forth everyday? Geez!
Re:Silly library
Indeed. The place I used to work for kept the keys to the door inside a drawer at the front desk. No one was responsible for anything except opening the library at 9am and then putting the keys back in the same drawer. No one cared who actually opened and closed as long as they did these things at the right times and put the keys back.
No brainer
Yeah; . . . uh-huh.
And how did the employees get in?
Re:No brainer
first of all, the manager should be fired for his/her failure in management.when leaveing the library for ever, he/she should take the keykeeper away,because any library needs not this kind of guy that locks patrons outside.
in additonal, i wonder how the employees entered the library, and why not keep a key in the library.
Re:No brainer
Not to be snarky or trollish, but every library *I’ve* worked in has more than one door. Good thing too, as the Internet regulars at my old public library used to start crowding around the front door a full half hour before opening, and would bang angrily on the glass if they saw a custodian or staff member walking around. It got so bad that we finally had to post a sign next to the posted hours, which essentially explained, “Hey dopes, we get here an hour early to turn all the computers on and do other magic library things behind the scenes” (but they phrased it nicer).
Cripes, it was like they thought we were teasing them by walking back and forth from Tech Services.
Re:No brainer 🙂
At one small library I worked at, the staff door was just a few feet away from the main entrance. So after trying to yank open the locked, front door, they would sometimes come and knock on the staff door. Always fun, especially when they are regulars. You come here everyday, the library hours haven’t changed since yesterday.
another way in?
So the loading dock door is inaccessible to the public. Why couldn’t the person in charge just make an exception and allow the patrons to go in that way? With staff moving them through to the public area of course. Someone wasn’t thinking . . . or maybe we don’t have the full story.