tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4011534.post6683497550398739991..comments2024-03-06T23:08:56.292-08:00Comments on LoveSettlement: Berkeley Public LibraryGlenn Ingersollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10674475308395975995noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4011534.post-65605111176217639632008-03-18T19:30:00.000-07:002008-03-18T19:30:00.000-07:00Apparently you haven't been to Guantanamo -- after...Apparently you haven't been to Guantanamo -- after hours. DMV-like during the day, maybe, but after hours, whew. It's not like they ever wash the pantyhose.<BR/><BR/>People. Can't live with 'em. Can't kill 'em all.<BR/><BR/>Land Mammal hasn't been on my list, though I may have happened upon it, who knows. I'll check it out.<BR/><BR/>When I was forced to read reams of tedious academese for my history & poli sci courses (undergrad) I also read huge amounts of poetry; it was like an antidote.Glenn Ingersollhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10674475308395975995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4011534.post-57904346146001995392008-03-18T11:13:00.000-07:002008-03-18T11:13:00.000-07:00Apparently you haven't been to the DMV on a day wh...Apparently you haven't been to the DMV on a day when the line isn't moving and the women behind the counter are just a wee bit snippy because the people waiting in line are obnoxious and belligerent because they've been waiting in line for a half hour.<BR/><BR/>The last time I was at my local library, a patron was arguing with a librarian about a fine. I thought there was going to be a throw down, I swear to god. I used to work in a video store and man oh man do people get emotional and um, er, IRATE when you tell them they owe money on late returns.<BR/><BR/>Do you patronize Anne Haine's blog? (Land Mammal is the name of her blog.) She's a librarian in Indiana, at the university---and she's blogged about the crazy amount of books she's carried home. I used to go to the library and leave with no less than ten books. I got out of the habit of visiting the library while I was doing my undergrad work--there was so much forced reading I had to do that I had no time for recreational reading--and then, after graduation, I lost my desire, after being a life long reader and lover of books, to read. I've slowly been finding my way back to that love after 3 years of booklessness. Guess it's time to find my way back to the library.LKDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02171027823523187126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4011534.post-58076425051914517582008-03-17T21:57:00.000-07:002008-03-17T21:57:00.000-07:00DMV the most hostile place on earth? Um. Boring & ...DMV the most hostile place on earth? Um. Boring & annoying & occasionally aggravating. But most hostile?<BR/><BR/>The library is way cheaper than Disneyland and isn't so fascist about forcing you to have an imagination.<BR/><BR/>I don't have a graduate degree. I have some librarian duties in my current position and enjoy my duties. I've contemplated getting the MLS. May yet, who knows. But maybe I don't have enough motivation cuz I'm happy where I am. <BR/><BR/>Even though I have piles & piles of books at home I still bring books home from the library -- and would even if I didn't work there!Glenn Ingersollhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10674475308395975995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4011534.post-66310836651120611962008-03-17T20:44:00.000-07:002008-03-17T20:44:00.000-07:00Somewhere in between the DMV and Disneyland??I so ...Somewhere in between the DMV and Disneyland??<BR/><BR/>I so wasn't expecting that description. It made me laugh out loud.<BR/><BR/>The library is somewhere in between the most hostile place and the happiest place on earth?<BR/><BR/>I swear, I'm never going to forget that.<BR/><BR/>I always felt like I was going to church when I went to the library. It felt holy to me. It felt sacred. It felt like a pilgrimage. And that pile of books I'd walk out with felt like the holy grail.<BR/><BR/>I used to think I wanted to be a librarian. I'm at a point in my life where I don't really know anymore what I want to be. And grad school is way too expensive to be toddling off in the direction of any given whim.<BR/><BR/>Do you have an MLIS? Do you enjoy working in a library?LKDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02171027823523187126noreply@blogger.com