library: too hard too big

15 Jun 06 | 4 comments

UPDATE: Nichole writes in to give a link to the Jail Library Group website.

Do you ever feel this way about your library? I bet our patrons do. Maybe frequently.

Check out jumblepile’s (aka nichole’s) set of jail finds on flickr. According to her, “These are things I find abandoned in books or stuffed on the book cart at the jail where I volunteer.” The above note was actually some sort of readers’ advisory transaction. Amazing stuff.

4 comments so far

  1. Aaron
    15 Jun 06 :: 5:14:51 pm

    boy, i had to fuss w/ that image repeatedly.

  2. nichole's auxiliary storage
    15 Jun 06 :: 9:15:17 pm

    Trust

    I’m kind of tickled that aaron found my jail finds flickr set. I’d been thinking about libraries trusting their patrons (and making things easier for them) ever since the infamous stapler post and its reprise. Working in the jail has

  3. nichole
    16 Jun 06 :: 10:33:27 am

    thanks for the link!

  4. Darren Chase
    19 Jun 06 :: 10:19:28 am

    I saw that movie

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