librarian logic? love it.

Ok, so I know I haven’t posted in a long time, and I will catch up. But before I tell you about spring break, st. patrick’s day, the foibles of irish males and the day I finally understood something in my Ulysses class I bring you this: Today I brought back a photocopied essay I checked out from the special collection in the library because I had been told that if I didn’t bring it back by 7 tonight I’d be charged 3 euro, or roughly 6 dollars, 3/4 of a pint, 3 irish coffees, 4 cadbury eggs or 2 trips to city center Dublin by bus per each hour if I had it out past 7. I then asked if I could check it out again?  And she said no. So I said well, when can I check it out again?  And she rolled her eyes at me and said, see that trolley (I did, in fact see a red trolley) and she said, the essay would go on the trolley, and when the trolley was filled with books they would then put said books and my essay back on the shelves and if I happened to be near the essay’s particular shelve at that time, then I could check it out again. Now, I realize this is a policy intended to promote equal opportunity access to a limited selection of materials but this was an essay, from the 70’s, about the definition of disability in sociological works, people were not exactly lining up for it, 45 page opus of pc clarification though it was. And it made me laugh. So that’s my story. Librarians are good craic: