Thought or Rant of the day!!!

[the_antisocial_hermit]

I just hate politics.

[N-Aldwitch]

I don't like to be cynical, friend, but...

Cry more.

Seriously, though Think for a second. Does it effect you? Really? It's not your problem. If the world was perfect, everyone would complain anyway.

[Mykey]

This rather good idea is necessary just by the way

[Phalynx]

Go Mykeyrools... the world needs more people like you (not sure this forum does but that's a sepparate issue)

[viktor]

heh, i hafta say you make too much sense.
i used to always want to be an astronaut&bioengineer
part of the reason was because those are just so interesting (yes i'm a nerg geek etc... get over it)
other reason, this rock called earth is already a disaster and it's heading to disaster so it would be nice to be elsewhere before then. maybe a barren lifeless cold rock like venus or mars and start over. problem is, if people went to mars the powers that be would in fact try to monopolise and capitalise whatever they possibly could on mars until the venus&mars colonies rebel .... yes i know sounds like a fantasy novel/ some tv shows on or were on but ya i'm done.

[the_antisocial_hermit]

Hmm... my rant...

People that expect you to exactly know the entire contents of the library by memory via subject, call number, or whatever other method they think you ought to know it by. And they expect you to know exactly what they're talking about. It doesn't matter if you've worked there 20 years or 6 months, you're supposed to be better than the computer at filing that information away in your mind.

So what if by 1952, there were 8,500 books, more than 30,000 manuscripts, maps, typescripts, and 4,500 photographs? Surely you know all that and what's been added since then. And the extra 1750 collections added and merged into it by 1967. Wait! We're not even up to 2006 yet! Now there's over 250,000 photographs to choose from!

"The Manuscripts Division holds more than 2,000 collections varying in size from a single item to more than 400 linear feet," (mind you, one collection of little papers) "and covering American history from the period of discovery to the present." The division "also preserves more than 5,000 maps of Indian Territory, Oklahoma Territory, and the entire Trans-Mississippi region."

"The library also has an extensive collection of nearly 20,000 microforms, that supports both published and unpublished holdings in the areas of western history and Native American cultures."

Five basement levels of just manuscripts! Rooms and rooms full of old books! More rooms of photographs! Not to mention the different specialty things that are in special rooms! Maps and sound recordings! One photo collection has almost 3,000 photos in it! It's 60+ boxes full of photos under one man's name!

And they get mad at me because I don't know exactly where what they want is even if I'm trying to do my job which is to help them locate it using the tools at my disposal. Not to say, "Oohh, you want to know about the law from 1820 about tobacco prohibition in Timbuktu that John Joe Bucksley wanted to pass. Well hold on a minute, it's just on the 5th basement floor to the left of Marta Mordedari's folder that has her euology in it."

Right, it's our job to know how to use the tools and try to help locate things. Not our job to have everything memorized when it would take a lifetime to memorize it. Especially if you're just a student worker and have no part in developing the collection.

I think I'm done.

*Quotes are taken from the website of the library.*

[Solfius]

*applaudes*

Good rant

[Sarah]

I agree.

I hate it when people walk or ride bikes in the street, especially when it's dark, and they wear dark clothing. They're just asking to get hit by a car or cause a collision, because cars have to swerve to avoid hitting the idiots. Streets are for vehicles. Sidewalks are for pedestrians. If there's not a sidewalk, find somewhere else to do your recreational bike riding or walking. Very few people do it for actual transportation purposes.

[the_antisocial_hermit]

Thank you. I feel a little better now. lol

[Marian]

I was going to rant about how lame the new X-men movie was, but antisocial hermit's was too good and now I'm intimidated...

[Solfius]

I agree.

I hate it when people walk or ride bikes in the street, especially when it's dark, and they wear dark clothing. They're just asking to get hit by a car or cause a collision, because cars have to swerve to avoid hitting the idiots. Streets are for vehicles. Sidewalks are for pedestrians. If there's not a sidewalk, find somewhere else to do your recreational bike riding or walking. Very few people do it for actual transportation purposes.

In the UK bikes are supposed to go on the road, not the pavement, regardless of whether you're riding for pleasure or travel, although it's not a much enforced thing.

Still, I know what you mean, just the other day I found myself staring at this strange, glowing ball of light, only to realise it was a motorbike headlamp, but I couldn't see the rider as he was dressed in black.

[Phalynx]

In the UK bikes are supposed to go on the road, not the pavement, regardless of whether you're riding for pleasure or travel, although it's not a much enforced thing.

When I was a kid I was told you are not permitted under the highway code to ride a bicycle on the path, but you are not allowed to ride on the road unless you have passed your cycle proficency test...

Real bugger trying to ride on the kerb all the time!

Hermi, you a librarian surely thats a ridiculous demands on you expecting you to memorise the entire library...It's not like youve got time so spend infront of a monitor learning that crap... it would take you at least 200 mins a day

[Dee]

Hermi, for some reason... I can't picture you as a librarian...

[the_antisocial_hermit]

Lol, Dee, maybe it's because I'm technically not.

Hermi, you a librarian surely thats a ridiculous demands on you expecting you to memorise the entire library...It's not like youve got time so spend infront of a monitor learning that crap... it would take you at least 200 mins a day

Phalynx, I'm a student worker, not a librarian.

You wouldn't learn any of the material in the library from sitting at the computer doing random searches for 200 min a day (so evil to even suggest it!). You learn it by people using it and asking for it and becoming familiar with it and what it is useful for. It would take years to even know a collection fairly well. Took me a full five years in a smaller library department to be able to say that about it.

Blasphemy! How can you even mention me giving up my 200 min a day to memorize call numbers and titles that mean nothing to me without seeing the document and using them! Good thing I only use about half of that every day.

[Phalynx]

Let me have a rant....

Once I had 15 characters then I deleted them all because I was far too busy... Then I opened another account and decided I was going to be much more careful I think I got to 15 again, or maybe 14 this time before I emailed the PD to dish out a few heart attacks, down to ten, another email and down to 5... 5 characters I really loved, they were all going places, equipped, skilled, responsible. Then life crushes in, massive lag, a domestic with the wife about how much time I spend on the PC so I did the evil deed and wiped out the last 5 MURDER! Been thinking about it and upset all week.

Guess how many days I lasted before I opened a new account? 5 measly pathetic days of moping around the forums and getting withdrawal symptoms. I can't beleive I only last 5 days... thank God I'm not a freakin' crack addict!

Third account, I swear it my last.... *shivers* one more character can't hurt me....I can give up tomorrow , I swear!