BS: are libarys rubbish?

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: GUEST
Date: 15 Mar 05 - 11:10 AM

Ted have you seen a nuclear powered Jag? That's all they drive you know. Fussy little buggers. But on their money who can blame them.

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 15 Mar 05 - 10:24 AM

I suppose its all right for them that likes laughing...can't see much in it, meself.

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Noreen
Date: 15 Mar 05 - 10:11 AM

They could even give wing signals

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 15 Mar 05 - 10:07 AM

Thanks GUEST, but on a more serious note, the seagulls would of course buy nuclear powered cars that don't need refuelling. Simple, nes pas?

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 15 Mar 05 - 10:04 AM

100! I thank you!

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 15 Mar 05 - 10:04 AM

99

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: GUEST
Date: 15 Mar 05 - 09:58 AM

Who's going to unscrew the petrol fuel lid when they need to fill up? Men, think they know everything!

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 15 Mar 05 - 09:53 AM

hmmmm..... interesting. BUT, a gang of seagulls could drive a car no problem. Three of them on the pedals, two to steer, and one to sqawk instrutions to them from the dashboard. There, simple eh?

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Layah
Date: 15 Mar 05 - 08:20 AM

I expect seagulls would be crap drivers, because they don't have hands, and even overcoming that difficulty, they certainly wouldn't be able to operate the pedals and see out at the same time. And I'm not sure they have enough power to push a clutch at all, so unless they were in an automatic they wouldn't even be able to start.

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 15 Mar 05 - 05:15 AM

Are seagulls crap drivers then? I hadn't thought about that before.

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Gervase
Date: 15 Mar 05 - 05:07 AM

Aha.Thismay be the answer!

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Davetnova
Date: 14 Mar 05 - 06:02 AM

Oooooohhhhh. Handbags!

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Gervase
Date: 14 Mar 05 - 05:14 AM

It's not the spelling, it's the inanity - the constant "Is xxx rubbish?" sort of thread that's posted more as a form of cyber-Tourette's than in a genuine search for an answer. If I really believed that John was interested in and could learn from the responses I might have a different opinion, but all I see is rather sad attention seeking of the 'Look at me, I'm zany, I am,' sort of fashion.
Such people - the sort of people who ask a question and don't give a toss about the reply, or who don't engage their brains before posting apparently random verbiage do rattle my cage.
It's not that his opinions are different from mine, it's just that they're not even fully-fledged opinions; they're the equivalent of someone in a pub lurching up and shouting through a haze of crisp fragments: "Seagulls! They're crap drivers, aren't they?" Once may be funny, but too often and it's maybe time to change pubs or have a quiet word with the landlord.
Perhaps it's a north-south thing. Perhaps it's just that I'm an intolerant stupid moany person. But if someone can point out to me the gnomic wit and subtle humour that I've clearly missed in the original post, I'll gladly stand them a pint of whatever it is John drinks.
Anyhap - it's probably better than I don't go near these sort of threads in future.

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 11 Mar 05 - 09:28 PM

I think the basic idea of the thread was to entertain.

As Eeyore says, ballons, parties, here we are! and there we are!

If you are a librarian, or a quantity surveyor who was just passing byand got sucked in. If you were dragged away from the serious concerns of the day: deciding who was nicest Saddam Hussein or the IRA.......call it a sabbatical.

Perhaps you can make the time up if you get up earlier and start taking cold showers.

The deadly serious nature of this thread is hinted at in the title - one would have thought.....

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Layah
Date: 11 Mar 05 - 08:55 PM

Interesting that some humor seems to have trouble being communicated through written media. I don't have much experience with jOhn (he disapeared about when I showed up, hmmm....) but I haven't noticed any reason from anything I've seen him post and things I've seen people say about him to take anything he says seriously. It occurs to me there's a lot of stuff that gets posted in BS that I would find offensive if I thought people were being serious. But since I don't it's all funny. I think I'm probably happier this way, and if I suddenly find out these people are being serious I'll be very disapointed.

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Bill D
Date: 11 Mar 05 - 06:36 PM

Do I detect that we are not all people of similar taste and attitude? Could it be that some of us actually have different notions of what is important, funny, stupid and relevant? Oh, horrors!

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: bbc
Date: 11 Mar 05 - 05:46 PM

Gervase, I've been wondering about John, too. He sure puts out a lot of BS. In general, I avoid any thread he has started. This time, I got sucked in because I am a librarian. If his threads have anything to recommend them, I guess I'm just too dense to see it.

bbc

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Mar 05 - 12:10 PM

Please don't get into either a shouting OR a pissing match or I'll have to ask you to leave the library.

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Noreen
Date: 11 Mar 05 - 07:29 AM

Hmmm, Gervase- you decide that jOhn is the village idiot because..?

Perhaps it's that his posts are not in perfect English, correctly phrased and spelled?

Or because his opinions differ from your own?

Neither are good reasons to think of someone as an idiot.

He has certainly rattled your cage, perhaps it might be useful to consider why?

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Gervase
Date: 11 Mar 05 - 07:20 AM

Sorry John, I still don't get it.
What was the point of your original post?
Maybe I am stupid, but I replied because I think:
Libraries = not rubbish.
First post = rubbish from stupid moany person who maybe should read some books instead of writing drivel every time his fingers stray near a keyboard.
Silly me, eh, trying to reason with the Mudcat Village's very own idiot!

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Mar 05 - 09:16 AM

It's okay, j0hn, if he moans too loudly in my library we'll ask him to either quiet down or leave.

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 09 Mar 05 - 08:17 PM

big writing= gervase is moany person.

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 09 Mar 05 - 08:12 PM

Mr Gervase- Wahts your bloody proplem then?

you read all thread, and post to it loasds of times, then say "johns threads are rubbish"

this is make you looking like a stupid person!
i explain=

perhaps you will allow me to draw an analogy?

a man goes to restaraunt, eats meal, waiter goes up to him a few times, asks is everything ok?
man says "yes, its great, really nice etc"
man finishes all meal, licks plate clean,
but then moans, = "that meal was rubbish, i'm not paying"!




If you don't like my threads, don;t read them.
dont read them, post to them a few times, then moan about them!
[makes you look like a stupid moany person].

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Mar 05 - 09:08 AM

And?

Been there, seen that. Also the Lipstick Librarian, the Laughing Librarian, and all the other pages.

As for shagging a trainee librarian -- well, I suggest a library degree. It ain't ALL cat & class!

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Mar 05 - 08:38 AM

ps...

http://bmeworld.com/gailcat/

"Welcome to the web page of the Modified Librarian. Here we will discuss the concept and practice of body modification as it relates to librarians as persons and professionals."

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: GUEST,no way do I disclose my name this time
Date: 08 Mar 05 - 08:36 AM

no one here ever shagged newly graduated trainee librarians..

the dirty [ even kinky ] little minx's

talk about secret lives and passions...!!!!???

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Mar 05 - 08:20 AM

That comes from swingin' that almighty big sword. Damned lucky the other fella didn't cut that right one right off. Fortunately, I managed to distract him with a pacifier and a new bottle of milk, burped him, and he dropped right off to sleep.

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Ebbie
Date: 07 Mar 05 - 11:27 PM

Rapaire, you are quite impressive in that picture. Please, note, however, that your right boob got a little too much exercise. Back to your left-arm pushups.

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Mar 05 - 09:58 PM

Nope. Google (and the rest of the search engines) make NO distiction between true and false, and for that matter whether or not the web pages that they have stored and indexed ("cached") still even exist.

And did you know that it's library school graduates (i.e., librarians) who developed the indexes and do the indexing? True.

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: goodbar
Date: 07 Mar 05 - 08:23 PM

i had to do real research for once the other day. so my class went tot he library and damn there's a lot of books. i have kind of a small school but when i really took it all in and looked into all the shit they had i was amazed.

good stuff, but it's quicker and easier to use google. :P

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Amos
Date: 07 Mar 05 - 06:44 PM

Right. Some Winamps are backward compatible and some are not.

Sounds ugly all right, and I yam glad to hear you're no part of it. I would have guessed that! :D

A

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Mar 05 - 06:18 PM

Gee, it plays back through Winamp for me.

It ain't a library's grievances, it's a library employee's grievances. Ugly stuff, like religious and age discrimination and whistle-blowing retaliation is being charged.

I'm glad it's not my library. Then again, I wouldn't even consider such stuff.

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Amos
Date: 07 Mar 05 - 03:38 PM

That particular piece was encoded using an obsolete or non-standard codec, is what it is. So the number of systems it will play back through is limited. But that's okay, I didn't want to hear librarians whinging anyway!! :D


A

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Mar 05 - 02:58 PM

I dunno what's wrong, Amos. Are your speakers on? Try going to www.kpvi.com and clicking on "News." The story is "Library grievances."

As for offending everyone...darn, I thought that was my job. Maybe that's why nobody comes to visit me. But then, this IS Idaho, and bathing is optional (if not actively discouraged).

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Amos
Date: 07 Mar 05 - 01:14 PM

The story play swith no sound on my system, even thou other Win Media files play ok. Dunno wazzup wid dat.

Rapaire I think there is a slight misunderstanding. A library, by rights, should contain enough material to be able to ffend almost anyone, true, because it represents such a wide spectrum of points of view.

That does not mean your job is to offend as many people as possible!! Just that you should be equipped to do so!! Viva la difference!


A

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Mar 05 - 12:21 PM

Dang right it does! If I'm not offending you I'm not doing my job.

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Mar 05 - 10:57 AM

A Good Library has something to offend everyone

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: GUEST,E Male
Date: 05 Mar 05 - 09:46 AM

som libarys have rubish peeple in theM or9 staning outsIde smookingg;

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Mar 05 - 11:59 AM

It isn't all peachy-keen.   This aired on KPVI television yesterday -- you'll need speakers and a media player like Winamp.

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Gurney
Date: 04 Mar 05 - 02:29 AM

As Greg Stevens writes about his library, so it seems to be happening here too. More CDs, DVDs, Videos, computer games (Even with computers to play them on), lots of desks for non-ratepayers to do their homework on and to hold noisy social groups around, toddlers running about screeching.....
less and less books, less peace, no archives, only books that are recognised as 'classics' are replaced with new copies-everything else,regardless of popularity, gone forever.

I know change is a constant, but in this case I don't like it.
Rubbish? Not yet, but working toward it.

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Morticia
Date: 03 Mar 05 - 12:25 PM

never invoke anything bigger than your head

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Mar 05 - 12:11 PM

I summon only the minor daemons with this spell. The really, really awful ones summon the fiends such as Yog Sothof, Vtls, and the spirits of All Defunct Library Schools: Columbia, Pratt, Carnegie Mellon, etc.

(Case Western Reserve, my bibliotecal alma mater, is NOT included amongst the ADLS fiends, and this is why.)

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Morticia
Date: 03 Mar 05 - 11:53 AM

Gervase, I won't have a word said against him and it's not like you not to grasp when someone is taking the piss, which he does with such style and breath taking skill that I would willingly worship at his feet forevermore.

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Gervase
Date: 03 Mar 05 - 11:33 AM

Is he lucid 'in the flesh'? Maybe his wit and wisdom just doesn't translate well online.

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Noreen
Date: 03 Mar 05 - 09:56 AM

Gervase, you obviously need to get to know jOhn better.

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Burke
Date: 03 Mar 05 - 09:35 AM

What's WINSLO?

Where's VTLS?

How could you leave out Dewey & Ranganathan?

Gotta go! Have to get that MS update loaded.

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Sttaw Legend
Date: 03 Mar 05 - 07:00 AM

(_@_)

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Gervase
Date: 03 Mar 05 - 06:49 AM

What is it about John in Hull? He starts a thread with some in incoherent rambling, we all jump on the bandwagon and say how much we like libraries, and he buggers off, presumaby to start another inane thread somewhere else.
Oi, John! Did you actually mean that stuff in the first post, or are you just being an arse? Let's have your thoughts.
(or maybe he's just been thrown out of the library for being an arse!)

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Mar 05 - 10:35 PM

You asked for it!

Through the Power of MARC, I conjure up
The evils of 008,
The power of 856,
The authority of 100.

By the Call of AACR, I bring forth
The authority of ISBD(M),
The power of UKMARC,
The evils of : and ; and /.

By Cutter and by Colon,
By LC and by UDC,
By Expansive and by DDC:

By Shores and by Shera,
By Butler and by Boole,
By Cutter and by Casanova,
By Sheehan and by Boorstin,
By Watterston and by Meehan,
By Spofford and by Stephenson,
By Young and by Putnam,
By MacLeish and by Evans,
By Mumford and by Billington:

Come, WINSLO
Come, CAMELS
Come, GCLC
Come, LiLI
Come, NOLA
Come, SOLO
Come, AMIGOS
Come, OCLC
Come, ACRL
Come, PLA
Come, LCEI
Come, LYNX
Come, III
Come, DYNIX
Come, SIRSI
Come, DRA
Come, PALS
Come, ALA
Come, AALL
Come, all ye fiends of bibliotecal acronyms:

And give to Burke that which she so richly deserves!

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Burke
Date: 02 Mar 05 - 07:38 PM

Send in the CIP and MARC squads, I'm up to it!

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Mar 05 - 07:04 PM

Burke! You took an oath not to give away the Arte & Mysterie Of Ye Librarie Sciences & Economies! Do I have to report you to ALA???

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Burke
Date: 02 Mar 05 - 06:53 PM

Who says librarians don't have a sense of
HUMOR?

Peeps know how to use their library. Why can't you?

Lipstick Librarian

Burke, the old maid librarian who always wears glasses & low heeled shoes. I used to have a bun too, but then I cut my hair.

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Teresa
Date: 02 Mar 05 - 04:10 PM

Dang, just look at all the science-fiction fans around here. :)

I forgot to mention that my science-fiction club meets at the county library once a month, and we are sponsoring an all-day SF seminar in April. Without the library, it would be much harder to have a meeting place. Yay, libraries. :)

Teresa

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: annamill
Date: 02 Mar 05 - 02:52 PM

My EX - husband use to like telling everyone:

"I read a book once. Didn't like it. Never did it again".

Note: EX - husband.

I just found the local library here in San Diego and I'm like a kid in a candy shop! I just did almost all of Harlan Ellison. Now I'm reading a biography of Kate Hepburn, Ben Franklin and another James Paterson mystery, When the wind blows. I have lots of time to read being a security guard. Shhh...

Love, Annamill

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 02 Mar 05 - 02:28 PM

Aahhh...As soon as I saw the thread title I knew the world is all right again.

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Mooh
Date: 02 Mar 05 - 02:02 PM

Libraries? Too far from MacDonald's and Walmart. Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Don Firth
Date: 02 Mar 05 - 01:51 PM

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Amos
Date: 02 Mar 05 - 09:21 AM

Too kind a word for it. It's a delusion!


A

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: GUEST,Sooz (at work)
Date: 02 Mar 05 - 08:50 AM

Now what makes me think thats a fib?

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Mar 05 - 08:32 AM

Books are for use.
    Books are for all; or Every reader his book.
    Every book its reader.
    Save the time of the reader.
    A library is a growing organism.
                   — Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan (1892-1972)

Mary Kay is one of the secret masters of the world: a librarian. They control information. Don't ever piss one off.
                   —   Spider Robinson: The Callahan Touch

Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read. Forget I mentioned it...Rise for the flag, salute.
                    -- (Francis Vincent) Frank Zappa

I pray that no child of mine would ever descend into such a place as a library. They are indeed most dangerous places and unfortunate is she or he who is lured into such a hellhole of enjoyment, stimulus, facts, passion and fun.
        
                   -- Willy Russell

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
                    -- Malcolm X: Autobiograhy of Malcolm X.

And for those who are just dying to know what I look like -- here's a link. I'm the one in the first picture.

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Ethan's Granny
Date: 02 Mar 05 - 08:07 AM

The university library I work in has applied for funding for an Archivist to work on material donated (after a lot of persuasion), and described as high academic status, but the university wants to support "research" into motor sport and - of all things - brewing, so guess what? We don't get our Archivist.

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Noreen
Date: 02 Mar 05 - 06:50 AM

"A book has been taken. A book has been taken? You summoned the Watch," Carrot drew himself up proudly, "because someone's taken a book? You think that's worse than murder?"

The Librarian gave him the kind of look other people would reserve for people who said things like "What's so bad about genocide?"

-Terry Pratchett

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Noreen
Date: 02 Mar 05 - 06:45 AM

Re. foxes in libraries:

It looked like the sort of book described in library catalogues as "slightly foxed", although it would be more honest to admit that it looked as though it had beed badgered, wolved and possibly beared as well.
-- Ah, but has it been hedgehogged?

-(Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic)

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Noreen
Date: 02 Mar 05 - 06:24 AM

The Librarian

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: greg stephens
Date: 02 Mar 05 - 05:56 AM

JOhn, come and try Newcastle-under-Lyme libary, it's had a make-over. They've rounded off all the corners, painted the walls pink, built some little alcoves to sit in, got lots of new videos, DVDs and CDs, and put up loads of big notices with easy to read lettering. They've also removed half of the books, but you can't fight progress, can you?

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 02 Mar 05 - 05:50 AM

if I were a book, I wouldn't want to be in a library....too bloody quiet. And strange people would come and the stuff out of their noses and ears would get smeared on my pages.

give a short happy life in somebody's pocket any time, and then the OXFAM shop.

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Noreen
Date: 02 Mar 05 - 05:41 AM

Good morning, jOhn!

'I really didn't realize the librarians were, you know, such a dangerous group. You think they're just sitting at the desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution, man. I wouldn't mess with them' - Michael Moore

So be careful, flamenco ted: we're watching you...

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 02 Mar 05 - 04:47 AM

Teresa. I presume you will have heard of the National Library for the Blind which provides both Braille and Moon books. If not their website is www.nlb-online.org
Best wishes, Mike.

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: GUEST,The Librarian
Date: 02 Mar 05 - 04:08 AM

OOK!   EEK!

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Teresa
Date: 02 Mar 05 - 03:52 AM

Well, as a totally blind person, I have extremely mixed feelings about libraries. :) I do love to go into them and fantasize about all the nice books. Actually, I've seen Braille collections.

The Internet has loads of them, like this one and this oneand this one for blind folks like me :)

Teresa

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: JennieG
Date: 02 Mar 05 - 03:34 AM

If you don't all be quiet now I will sool Conan the Librarian onto you!

Cheers
JennieG....I must be a real tragic, I have worked in libraries for nigh on 30 years now.......

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Blowzabella
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 08:18 PM

Childrens play areas in Libraries - No way - now, somewhere you can leave your puppydog - THAT would be good....

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Nick
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 07:18 PM

Isn't the internet a sort of library?

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 06:48 PM

Foxes generally aren't found in public libraries. University libraries, on the other hand, are rife with them.

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 06:46 PM

Yes, they do. At least in the Western US. The Rocky Mountain Spotted Book Fox is sometimes seen, but it is on the endangered species list -- it's considered "critical." It's habitat consists of thoughtful, insightful, well-written books and, well, it's another case of habitat destruction.

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Ron Davies
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 06:38 PM

Ask Bill D.

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Angiemac
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 05:22 PM

Do foxes live in libraries?

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 04:51 PM

Not all at once!

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 04:51 PM

We have had fiddlers, bagpipers, choral groups (from Estonia!), string quartets, kids' choirs, pianists, guitarists, a brass choir, and others play here. I don't know about accordionists.

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 04:48 PM

Well, at least...not for long!

I wonder if this guy I know would be willing to play his bagpipes in the Orillia Library if I gave him five bucks to do it? :-)

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 04:43 PM

I love libraries! They're about the only place in the world where there's absolutely no chance anyone is going to play accordion or bagpipes.

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: GUEST,library fan
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 04:06 PM

Love everything about them. The smell, the floors, the books, the quiet. Best free resource UK has to offer. Are they free in US too?
To join and borrow from? Love them all. The long and the short and the tall.

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 04:01 PM

For what it's worth, Nancy Pearl is coming to speak in Pocatello in October. I've spoken with her several times -- a delightful person.

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Amos
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 01:36 PM

No, the rubbish associated with libraries is in the rubbishy patrons, a small minority who make trubble and are stupid so there. And the budget meisters all so.

A

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Don Firth
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 01:36 PM

More on SUPERLIBRARIAN.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 01:35 PM

Be quiet you! Shush! Quiet down or I'll call your mother!


(God, I've always wanted to say that in a library....)

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 01:30 PM

It's libarrians that aru rubbish! They ware pointy eyeglases and ugly necklaces and they are all verry mean two.

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Don Firth
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 01:23 PM

Here yah go!

QUIET!!

(That's a link, incidentally.)

Nancy Pearl, the model for the action figure, looks a bit like that, but she doesn't dress like that. It's an deliberate stereotype, done as a joke. She's on the radio (local NPR affiliate) once a week, talking with the host about her latest reading recommendations. She's married (unlike the stereotypical old-maid librarian). I don't know if she has any kids. She's a bookaholic, reads very fast, and absorbs several books a week:   all kindsa stuff, including mysteries, science fiction, general fiction, non-fiction. Good recommendations. I've read a lot of the stuff she's recommended, and she's never steered my to a book that I didn't agree was well worth reading.

She's also one helluva funny lady.

Libraries are a mark of a civilized society. In fact, I'm not sure civilization would be possible without them.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Don Firth
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 12:59 PM

There is not much point in going to a library if you can't read. If you can, it opens up the Entire Universe for your exploration.

It helps if you can read without moving your lips.

Don Firth
(Married to a librarian. And I know lots of librarians. Plenty of personality.)

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Bill D
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 12:02 PM

I was in a library in Kansas once, and I saw this REAL Fox....followed her around for awhile, but she threatened to sic the dogs on ME if I didn't stop...so....

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 11:55 AM

SILENCE in here! People are trying to read!
Best wishes, Mike.

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Gervase
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 11:55 AM

Course they're rubbish - they tend to make you think, and we all know that's bad for you. Stick to betting shops and pubs, mate, otherwise you might learn summat!

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 11:44 AM

Hail, boy, ya jist come out here ta Idaho. We'll let ya fox hunt in the Library! Jist as long as ya don't use horses er guns er yell "Tally-Ho!" er blow them damned bugles er use pupdogs. Er foxes, fer that matter. I'll let ya do it, too, 'cuz I run the joint.

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Ron Davies
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 11:35 AM

Oh, come on John, just keep looking. There must be at least one library that allows foxhunting.

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 11:34 AM

libraries are the closest you can get to heaven on earth. well - if they have a children's play area they are. And a good science fiction section. And a good reference section. And comfortable reading areas.

of course - many don't. THOSE are rubbish.

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Amos
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 11:33 AM

Don't see me going in 'em much -- all people do in there is read, hard on the eyes. All that thinking is entirely too precious, you ask me.


A

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Wesley S
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 11:31 AM

No Libraries are fine. However - the folks who try to smoke and eat meat pies and chips in the library are rubbish - in my opinion. They NEED to go outside. Foxhunting anywhere - the library included - is rubbish also.

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Nick
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 10:52 AM

Libraries are WONDERFUL

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Morticia
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 10:11 AM

Nothing in there but books and stuff too, what's all that about?

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Davetnova
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 10:08 AM

Heel0 J0hn, we missed you. For a minute I thought JoHn=rubish, but then I thought Naah.

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 10:07 AM

Yes and no. It's not done surgically.

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 10:03 AM

I have heard that you have to have your personality surgically removed before you are allowed to work in a library. Is this true?

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 10:02 AM

Dang right they are, j0hn! And if they didn't pay me I certainly wouldn't work there!

Subject: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: GUEST,jOhn
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 10:00 AM

no smoking, no eating meat pies, no eating crips allowed, total rubbish, probsbly no foxhunting allowed as well, blooddy rip off.
i'm off outside for a smoke!

and haf to switch portable ohones off "please switch your ohone off or disturb peiople".