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[darchildre]

I 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.

Comments

[schneefink]

Not at all silly. It is very annoying to try and sign up somewhere and your username is already taken.

[frenchroast]

I totally get it. I get very annoyed when I can't be frenchroast or at least frenchroasted without a number following. And it's nowhere near as unique as darchildre.

[tricksters_queen]

Oh, I don't know... I'd be fairly upset if I couldn't use faechild or kaiyakagon, so I think that's fair.

[out_there]

Hee! I'm glad the mystery was solved!

[sfred]

Phew!

[silveradept]

While we are glad the name collision is resolved, I can't say I'm thrilled to know that bibliocommons has that kind of requirement, because they're getting themselves into an awful of libraries everywhere.

[darchildre]

Yeah. There are many aspects of Bibliocommons that are greatly superior to the system we have now but there are definitely some features I feel distinctly iffy about.