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a SMALL note

scary statue!

Give me a break! This is so terrible. Why do they want to make their patrons feel like children?

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jessamyn says:

signed,

Your MOM!!!!
Posted 42 months ago. ( permalink )

jessamyn says:

also, since when is cell phones hyphenated?
Posted 42 months ago. ( permalink )

librarianmer says:

The whole note is horrible, but I can't believe the teeny tiny "thank you"!!! Some people really have lost any sense of who libraries are for.
Posted 42 months ago. ( permalink )

The Shifted Librarian says:

And shhhhhhhhhhhh!

Sigh
Posted 42 months ago. ( permalink )

mstephens7 says:

This is the message we are sending to our users... I want to weep...again...
Posted 42 months ago. ( permalink )

Greg Schwartz says:

Funny, what I noticed was the annoying capitalization of every word and distinct lack of punctuation: Who's up for some "cell-phones eating?"
Posted 42 months ago. ( permalink )

aaron schmidt says:

mmmmmm, cell-phones.
Posted 42 months ago. ( permalink )

ae-j says:

great. now i'm sad.
Posted 42 months ago. ( permalink )

davidking says:

I thought the cell phones were eating something... so what do they eat, anyway?
Posted 42 months ago. ( permalink )

freerangelibrarian says:

Man, that is one cold prickly. Why don't they add, "and up yours"?
Posted 42 months ago. ( permalink )

okay, not to be a total bia, but really, what's so wrong with the note (grammar aside)? One of the branches where I teach at has some of the most obnoxious yell-into-cell-phone-whilst-drinking-double-b ig-gulp-and-eating-snickers-bar-patrons. However, people don't read signs so it won't solve the problem. Just b/c you can't eat/drink/gab doesn't mean your library/librarian isn't friendly...
Posted 42 months ago. ( permalink )

jeanne h says:

I don't even know where to start - the "absolutely" - does this mean the library staff also? The Caps and grammer? The command tone softened by the tiny "thank you"? Not library friendly, not the image we should want to project to our patrons
Posted 42 months ago. ( permalink )

Glenn Peterson says:

Our library system finally gave up on it's fruitless attempts to ban cellphones and relies, as it should, on existing policies related to disruptive behavior.
Posted 42 months ago. ( permalink )

vsmoothe says:

Fabulous. That really makes me want to visit.

Sheer Willpower, the problem is that tone of the sign is extremely rude and authoritarian. We want people to feel welcome in our libraries, and we want to project a friendly, helpful image. You don't want people to walk in and feel like if they make any mistake at all they're going to end up in time out.
Posted 42 months ago. ( permalink )

librarism says:

Eats shoots and cell phones.
Posted 42 months ago. ( permalink )

jessamyn says:

Us eating at our library. Yum.
Posted 42 months ago. ( permalink )

eclecticlibrarian says:

I won't be visiting that library anytime soon. My cell-phone has the munchies.
Posted 41 months ago. ( permalink )

calicorocklibrary says:

Well the sign may be harsh, but I happen to be a librarian and we also have a sign posted saying "No Cell Phone Use in the Library." People still use their phones though, and I know they can read or they wouldn't be in the library in the first place. What we, as librarians, is people to be respectful to other patrons and the library staff. So next time you are at your local library, turn your cell phone off before you go in.
Posted 22 months ago. ( permalink )

mstephens7 says:

But isn't my cell phone also my way of keeping in contact with my world? I get my email, can surf the library's web page with the browser, and text my friends to meet me there. We're talking behavior not technologoy.
I am a librarian too! :-)
Posted 22 months ago. ( permalink )

davidking says:

So... exactly how is cell phone usage disrespectful to others? Yes, possibly someone shouting while talking is disrespectful - that's a behavior issue, not a cell phone issue.

But normal rings and quiet talk? I don't find that disrespectful in the least.
Posted 22 months ago. ( permalink )

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