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[kippurbird]

Ah... the first week of school. Nothing like watching undergraduate and graduate students fumble into the mysterious thing known as the library.

Highlights:

An Education student: Are the LBs at the back of the stacks? Noooo... they would be before the Ms And that's in the middle? Yes.

Several students: Do you have any bibles? I need a bible for class. Yeeeeessss

Another student: Do you have a biology textbook? It's really big. is it on reserve? *blank look* You'll have to check the catalog it might be in the stacks. That's over there isn't it? Yes *student wanders into the stacks with befuddled look on their face never checking the catalog so they don't know where the biology books would be. Wanders out about five minutes later with no book*


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Comments

[mad-troll.livejournal.com]

Ahh.. I sort of missed what you're describing here, yet..
..yet...
..DAMN! I always got the schoolkinds who expected you to provide them with everything, or the "I know where it is"-types who tried to enter the non-public sections.

*offers sympathy & chocolate*

[subieko.livejournal.com]

I have a friend who works at our campus library, and she's reported similar things, with students just not seeming to know how to use a library. I think part of the problem is that children aren't taught as much about using the library anymore. When I was a kid, my parents actually took me and my brother to the library for fun, and in grade school, we had a class session on how to find books in the library, the Dewey decimal system, the whole bit. But of course, that was before google and grade-school kids doing research on the internet (not much before, but we didn't learn a thing about the internet in computer class, for example). Now that it's easy to look things up online, maybe people just don't use the library as often.

Of course, it still doesn't explain why people don't seem to notice obvious signs directing them to where various things are in the library...

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

Of course, it still doesn't explain why people don't seem to notice obvious signs directing them to where various things are in the library...

No one reads signs, silly! Everyone knows that. Signs are for other people to deal with.

[torylltales.livejournal.com]

I envy your job. I volunteered in my high school library for 5 years, I really miss it.