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Apr. 5th, 2023 10:48 amI make fun of my dad when he gets upset about having to share his name with random other people he meets - he has a fairly unique first name that has recently somewhat come into vogue as a girl's name. My sisters and I, plus my mom, all have extremely common names for our generation, so it's always been half funny/half irritating to hear dad complain about other people having his name.
Except I do get it, because we're moving our library website/public catalog to Bibliocommons, where you have to set up a username the first time you log in to your account, and somebody already had darchildre. This is clearly unacceptable - I am the only darchildre on the internet, I have used this name since I was 13 and I signed up for my first email address with aol, it is never already taken. Who is this imposter who stole my name? I had to sign up with the username I only use when I either don't want to tie whatever I'm signing up for to my main identity or want to have two accounts for some reason, and was basically filled with rage at the indignity.
Until one of my coworkers mentioned that usernames have to be unique across every library that ever uses Bibliocommons, and I checked to see if I had set up a username with one of the systems where I only have cards to use ebooks. Turns out I had set it as a username for the Seattle library years ago. So now that library has my secondary username and my own library gets the real one.
It is silly to be this relieved that I remain the only darchildre on the internet, and yet.
Except I do get it, because we're moving our library website/public catalog to Bibliocommons, where you have to set up a username the first time you log in to your account, and somebody already had darchildre. This is clearly unacceptable - I am the only darchildre on the internet, I have used this name since I was 13 and I signed up for my first email address with aol, it is never already taken. Who is this imposter who stole my name? I had to sign up with the username I only use when I either don't want to tie whatever I'm signing up for to my main identity or want to have two accounts for some reason, and was basically filled with rage at the indignity.
Until one of my coworkers mentioned that usernames have to be unique across every library that ever uses Bibliocommons, and I checked to see if I had set up a username with one of the systems where I only have cards to use ebooks. Turns out I had set it as a username for the Seattle library years ago. So now that library has my secondary username and my own library gets the real one.
It is silly to be this relieved that I remain the only darchildre on the internet, and yet.
