Friday Time Killers

From the July/August issue of the Saturday Evening Post a selection fron author N. West Moss's new story collection, focusing on a day in the life of a librarian at the Bryant Park NYPL .

N. West Moss was the winner of the Post’s 2015 Great American Fiction Contest for “Omeer’s Mangoes,” which, with “Absence of Sound,” appears in her first short-story collection, The Subway Stops at Bryant Park (Leapfrog Press, 2017). This story first appeared in Neworld Review.

Yes, according to Vox.com the history of card catalogs is weirdly fascinating.

Winner of the Peeps Diorama Contest from The Washington City Paper.

Librarians like Peeps, right? Can someone please explain (in the comments) how this came to be?

Anyway, here's a recipe for culinarily ambitious librarians (and others) who want to make delicious honey saffron-scented HOMEMADE PEEPS!!

From the New York Times Melissa Clarks thoughts about her Peeps project.

from JstorDaily.

Perhaps you're acquainted with Edinburgh University's Library Cat? Here's the Facebook page where I first met him.

Little video inspired by the completion of the Olympics.

Some Good Customer service "precepts" by Paula Laurita via Pub-Lib

Okay, my number one rule is no blood in the library. But aside from that I have a few general rules:

2. We don't work at the "no" factory. The first response isn't "we can't do that". Try and find the "yes" if possible without infringing on another patron. Some staff took this at first that we never say no. That's not a blanket yes to more computer time if someone else is waiting.

Here's the story from 538.

From Buzzfeed Books.

Happy weekend! Anyone doing the #Deweyreadathon tomorrow?