R LIBRARIANS CRAZEE...AND Y

In a world where there are two kinds of people...

There are two kinds of librarians; the librarians who love the library and the librarians who love the patrons.

No one person can be both…not successfully.

The librarians who love the library want to protect it from the grubby patrons who will tear up the materials, take things off the shelves and not put them back, or worse...put them back...in the wrong place!

These are the librarians who generate copious and strict rules that must be followed without exception. They are also the librarians who keep the shelves orderly and who keep the materials where they can be found.

The librarians who love the patrons want to give the patrons everything they want...even if the materials suffer, and the collection is left in disarray...even if the patrons don't know they want it, these librarians give it to them.

These are the librarians who chase patrons into the parking lot yelling, "Wait! I have more SEE ALSOs for you!"

These librarians consider the rules to be suggested guidelines which should be ignored if they might interfere with a patron's needs.

Libraries need both kinds of librarians.

With just the first kind of librarian, the library will be a shiny toy kept in the box...a sofa covered with plastic wrap...a beautiful lawn with a 'keep off the grass' sign.

With just the second kind of librarian, the library will be piles and piles of books and such, scattered all around the building.

Good libraries are run by people from opposite ends of this philosophical spectrum…and we drive each other insane…AND…that's why librarians are crazy.

Well truthfully, we are a little gone around the bend before we even start, but that's another story...


...and it begins with Melville Dewey (spelled Melvil Dui) who founded library science as a way to pick up chicks and along the way invented the Dewey Decimal System which still confounds library users to this day; it is a mixture of genius and madness that attempts to contain the infinitude of knowledge within a finite boundary, and succeeds, sort of, in an elegant juggernautical way.

But don't take my word for it...you know what to do...it's Google time!

...search on "Melville Dewey"

Use the quotes. It's the librariany way.
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If the past tense of Google is Googled, is the future perfect tense...Giggled?

I googled once yesterday, but I will have giggled three times by tomorrow.