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Dear Library Patrons,

Here is the extent of my responsibilities as regards you printing things off the computer: I open up the print management program, locate your print jobs, take your money, and direct the computer to release the jobs so that they print. That's it. It is not my responsibility or indeed my problem when you print something that's three pages long but you only really needed the first page.

If you ask me to help you tell the computer to only print one page, I would be happy to try to figure that out for you. But you already told it to print. You already paid for the print job. By doing those things, you have accepted that these are the things you wanted to print.

I'm sorry that you paid money for a page you didn't need but, y'know, that's not actually my problem. Please do not complain at me about it.

(no subject)

Since arriving here at the library at 11 o'clock this morning, my circ computer has unexpectedly shut down six times. I am keeping track. Fortunately, it keeps coming back up when turned back on but I have no idea how long that state of affairs will hold out.

We have called the IT people. They have not responded.

I cannot say that I am best pleased about this.

(no subject)

There is a tiny child in the library who keeps asking me questions and calling me, "Sir."

I mean, it's not like I'm offended or anything, but, y'know, I'm not terribly masculine-looking, I have hair down to my butt, and I'm wearing a floor-length skirt.

So that's odd.



ETA - And then tiny child's mother hands me her keys so that I can scan the card attached to her keychain and part of the keychain is cloth and wet and not the cold kind of wet that means it got rained on but the warm and sticky kind of wet that means that a tiny child (she had several) has been sucking on it and oh, ick, I need to go wash my hands.