A phone call I received recently: Me: Benbrook Library, how can I help you? Patron: I have two books checked out from your library that are due tomorrow. Me (cheerily-yet-expectantly, anticipating a renewal request): OK. Patron: I’ll bring them back tomorrow. Unless I can’t make it there tomorrow; then I’ll bring them back the next … Continue reading
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If You Wanna Go Fast (Online), Come to the Library
Aside from playing stupid, time-wasting Flash games, my most vivid early memories of the Internet involve a lot of waiting. Waiting for the static-y, digital donkey-sounding tones of dial-up to finish serenading me so I would finally be connected to AOL. Waiting half a day for a bootleg live blink-182 album to download on Napster. Waiting … Continue reading
Laminate at the Library
Announcing new services at the library is one of the utmost spine-tingling joys of our existence. We love to break out the megaphones, ticker tape, wacky, waving, inflatable, arm-flailing tube men, and symphony orchestra to introduce and hawk our wares (figuratively, of course; we like to party, but we are still a library and must … Continue reading
Save Your Summer for Yourself With Save the Readingverse
Most would have you believe that summer belongs to the young. With no school to pin them down, children are free to roam the Earth uninhibited and have their pool-splashing, sno cone-eating, and, most importantly, library-visiting needs catered to by their subservient parental escorts. We at the library are of course happy to oblige … Continue reading
Book-Related Baby Names
After the airing of the second-to-last episode of Game of Thrones a couple weeks ago, word on the Internet had it that some parents who had named their recently-born kids after a certain character on the show weren’t feeling so…hot about their decision after certain heinous events transpired. This got me thinking 1) it’s a … Continue reading
Avoiding Spoilers on an Internet That is Dark and Full of Them
As much as we love the Internet for its bountiful supply of useful information, soothing animal content, and general time-wasting enabling, lately, especially for fans of Game of Thrones and the Marvel Cinematic Universe who are tardy to their respective new content parties, it’s been a cruel, dangerous heckscape. Every time you fire up a … Continue reading
When You Need Info, Ask a Librarian (Even if You’re Not at the Library)
Earlier this week, I took a trip to GameStop to pick up some Guitar Hero games for the tournament we held last night at our monthly Game Night program (little did college me know that all the hours he spent digitally shredding Carry On Wayward Son would someday inform professional me’s work). While there, I … Continue reading
