Found in the Library#2

As you would probably expect we have a very diverse range of readers in this particular establishment. Healthy debate is absolutely part and parcel of any institution worth it's salt that encourages the development of critical thinking and the application of insight and reason into the dilemmas we as a society face today. Our students and researchers stand on the rather nicely formed shoulders of the giants of academic endeavour, and hope to emulate, nay, eclipse luminaries of these sceptred isles such as Bertrand Russell; Mary Wollstonecraft; John Stuart Mill; Marie Stopes or John Maynard Keynes.

And then again, we have those who leave notes like these.

They were both facing out from little piles of scrap paper that are next to the catalogue computers. I suspect the one of the left was done first, and the biting critique on the right followed.

Apparently "monay" is a classic Filipino bread...like I said diverse range of knowledge here. Either that or their on board spell-checker is on the fritz!

File under Dewey number 641.815

Found in the Library#1

And so, before we begin, a quick rant from my moral high chair.

I've been doing this academic library malarkey for over 10 years now, and the one thing that both bewilders and annoys the J.Henry.Christ out of me is the fact that our "customers" - as we have to call them these days (everyone has a price at the Capitalist Gang Bang we call modernity) seem to have not yet mastered the ability to push a chair back under a table or work surface after they get up to leave.

And this is not an isolated case or two, it is the bloody majority! Of course, I realise that students have a lot on their minds, such as where to get the cheapest Jager Bombs in town but honestly, how difficult is it to put a chair,  - and a fair few have wheels I hasten to add, back in its place?

Has this seemingly obvious piece of everyday, common or garden politeness became a relic of a past only us fuddy-duddies remember, like Spangles, pound notes and Dial-A-Disc? Or is it because it's not part of an accredited module and therefore not worth bothering about? Or is it simply beneath them...haha beneath them! Chairs, beneath, geddit?...oh suit yourselves...anyway, is it simply not worth their while when they are paying £9k plus a year...well, we say paying, borrowing is more to the point...oh, listen kids, do like your Uncle Librarypigg and get crappy under paid jobs until you hit 50 and "Boom!" the loan and the repayments are cancelled!! Huzzah! Under-achievement was never so useful.

Anyway, enough of that, and on to the first "Found in the Library", this note was next to a pile of sweet wrappers, unfinished food and general crapola some lazy sod left behind. Unfortunately I don't have a picture of that scene just a note from a person after my own house-proud, domestic goddess heart. x

File under Dewey number 749.32