Bleurgh

[lizbee]

For some reason, I spent several early-morning hours lying awake, wishing for sleep. Or death. Now I'm tired, my hands are stiff, and I have a headache.

In other news:

- weeding a book because it is hypothetically offensive to small-town American sensibilities, even though no patrons have actually complained, is not the act of a responsible librarian. Still, that's one blog to unsubscribe from.

- Emma Watson has cut her hair off. I'm torn; on the one hand, it is gorgeous, and highlights her best features. On the other hand, the world already has one Carey Mulligan. If Evanna Lynch ever steps foot near a hairdresser, I'm calling in a SWAT team.

- Yesterday, to celebrate the improvement in my hands, I did the dishes. Now they're back to where they were on Tuesday. The moral of the story is: NEVER DO THE CHORES. From now on, I will be cleaning NONE OF THE THINGS.

- I have five or six episodes of book 1 of Avatar: the Last Airbender left, and some YA novels I haven't read yet. My plans for today: set.

Comments

[j00j]

Um, wow, that's not weeding. That'd actually be unethical. I think that's the first really bad post I've noticed in Awful Library Books. Ugh. Most of the other stuff I've seen falls pretty clearly into the category of weeding, e.g. books that tell teens how to date in 1950 (belongs in an academic library for historical/research purposes, does not belong in a public library for informational purposes).

ETA: You probably knew all that, I'm just a grumpy librarian who gets annoyed when my colleagues fail to uphold professional standards. Sure, it's not easy to have people mad at you, but if you removed everything that might make someone mad you'd have no damn books left.

[nineveh_uk]

Um, wow, that's not weeding. That'd actually be unethical.

I (not a librarian) don't think you're grumpy at all. She's either a censor or a thief, because whatever her motive for removing the book and taking it for herself it certainly wasn't the overall welfare and freedom of all the readers of her library.

[geek_anachronism]

But we're being so MEAN by pointing that out. And anyway, she's being SENSITIVE to her community about which she knows more than us.

Because none of us were blighted by censorship and thought the library was a refuge...

[lizbee]

Honestly, that whole thing is so much fail. But it makes me glad, again, that I decided librarianship wasn't for me, because I would seriously wind up going on a killing spree.

[thedorkygirl]

Appa, yip yip!! <3 <3 I love Avatar!! Prince Zuko is hawt.

[tangledaria]

I have a friend who is an elementary school librarian and she had to pull Pinkerton, Behave! because the burglar that the dog chases off points his gun at the mother's head. Well, where else is he going to point it?

[melengro]

How are you liking Avatar so far?

[adelheid]

Wondering what the ethical response to books by the LeHaye's is. You know who I mean, right?

I shudder every time I have to re-shelve them. Far worse than Dawkins and I always want to hide those.

[lizbee]

The Left Behind series? Those are vile.

[gominokouhai]

> Emma Watson has cut her hair off

I'm surprised at how good that looks; her hair was brilliant before. And the world can never have too many Careys Mulligan. (Maybe now the two of them can kiss or... something.)

> From now on, I will be cleaning NONE OF THE THINGS.

I know that feeling. Internet! Forever....