The Bronze Medal

home  |  October 4th, 2010

Today a patron called and asked if she was speaking to a “real librarian with an MLS” who could answer her question. She then proceeded to ask if I could “google something for her.”

#i am an excellent googler

  1. collegefail reblogged this from librarianista and added:
    Hey, I know that’s a big part of the result of earning my masters. And if you think you need to call someone up in order...
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  3. sarahastrid reblogged this from librarianista and added:
    ( The general public terrifies me in any profession…)
  4. eclecticadelheid reblogged this from librarianista and added:
    And I say again - oh, good lord.
  5. jillzey reblogged this from librariansoul and added:
    up… I had no idea you’d look...me. I’m totally sending The Kid to you next time he
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  7. bookishbabe reblogged this from librarianista and added:
    A man recently told me that he was glad the library hired a “real librarian”. He then wrote out a Theodore Roosevelt...
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  9. stilltime reblogged this from thebronzemedal and added:
    sometimes, people suck
  10. passiveyetaggressive reblogged this from thebronzemedal and added:
    My experiences working at...soo similiar!! My day involved talking
  11. mustanggina said: Libraries … the original Google.
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  13. hungryghoast said: HAD to be taking the piss, no?
  14. phoenixangel13 reblogged this from ugli-fruit and added:
    i’d rather people ask if i was a librarian instead of assuming everyone who answers the phone/sits at a desk at a...
  15. ugli-fruit reblogged this from thebronzemedal and added:
    the strangest questions. When...worked somewhere that required I wear scrubs, people would...
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