I Work at a Public Library

Recently, I came across this blog - iworkatapubliclibrary.com.  If you have a few extra minutes, you ought to take a look at it.  It is hilarious, and touching, and very, very true.  Gina Sheridan, the author of the blog, also has a book out by the same name.  I am HOPING that Franklin County Library will be getting it, just because I want to read it.

Her stories include odd happenings, such as the person who admired the librarian's eyelashes so much that he/she wanted to pluck them out with tweezers. There are also those unpalatable stories, like the librarian who helped a man find a source for fresh possum so that he could make a possum pie.  And then there are the sweet stories, such as the woman who moved and returned her library card with a note saying how wonderful the library had been to her and the man who just needed someone to talk to after a cancer diagnosis.   

I won't tell you how many of the stories on Ms. Sheridan's blog have happened here at Franklin County Library, but it's more than a few!  It is both a joy and a curse that every morning when we come to work we don't know what we'll be getting into.  If you want an inside look at life at a public library, check out her blog.