Kinda Creepy!

Hey,

I don't know if it's just me or not, but the picture of Lucy Mack Smith is staring me down while I'm in the Special Collections Exhibit! Her eyes follow me everywhere, and they're open really wide, too.

I don't want to go back down there. *whimper*

O Ye Fair Ones. . .

Due to popular demand. . .er, rather. . .due to the fact that we're having the same problems I decided to bring this oldie, but goodie, back from obscurity. It was called, "It Ain't Rocket Science" because, well, stacking books properly should be a basic knowlege of us here at Library Security -- but you can't really tell that from the book carts lately.

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What is with the stacking of books lately? It seems people either a) don't know, b) don't care, or c) are too [lazy]. People have been stacking books all on one side of the cart making it awkward and lopsided to turn around and/or move. This is wrong.

People have also been just throwing ALL of the books on top of the cart and just letting the next person stack them onto the shelves. This is also wrong.

This is the correct way to stack books onto the carts: Stack the top shelf first. If the book doesn't fit in the top shelf, give the bottom shelf a try (sometimes they're different sizes). If it is an irregular-shaped/no-call-number-on-the-side book and/or damaged book, THEN you stack it on the top of the cart (just in a pile until it gets pretty full).

When the two shelves are full, you turn the cart around and fill up the other two shelves. THEN you start to arrange books on the top of the cart. Only then.

And don't forget to fill out a slip and call Circ. If you chat with them a bit instead of just asking for a cart, they usually will get the empty cart to you quicker.

Fetch All You Fetchin' Fetchers!!!

An Outlook story.

Once upon a time, there were a bunch of Security guards who forgot to do the hourly gate counts on West for days and days at a time.

Then one day, someone figured out that if Outlook was left open, it was like an alarm clock on the computer. With Outlook's magical powers, the Security guards would never again forget to scribble down the confusing numbers in the boxes marked P and A.

In the end, LAO realized that no patrons came in in the dead of night and on Saturday mornings, so they shortened nights at the HBLL and trimmed down on weekend shifts, causing much joy and happiness to the Security guards...all because they remembered to take the hourly gate counts.

The End.

Civil Rights Day

Why not celebrate Civil Rights Day by doing your civic duty and protecting one of our nations most prized posessions: The Library! Please sign up for the open shifts! Martin Luter King, Jr. would be pleased as southern BBQ to see you here!

New Policy

Effective January 11, 2006:


All security guards who wish to carry a flashlight must undergo basic flashlight training academy, which includes, but is not limited to, having a flashlight shined directly into their eyes.


Promulgated and enacted this 11th Day of January, 2006.


Aspiring lead officer 739.

Revenge of the Nerds

I signed up for the shifts in special collections all day today (8am to 5pm) and wondered why I had done such a thing to myself when my alarm went off at 6:45. I of course pushed snooze as many times as proper morning hygeine would permit and got out the door in just enough time to make it to work without being late.

I ran from the guest parking lot (the normal lots are all enforced during the break... I found out the hard way) and hurriedly walked through the Wilkinson Center. It was raining this morning so I decided I'd wait underneath the overhang in front of the wilk until the library opened. I was getting ready for another slow day at the library when I saw something that shivered my timbers. As I looked across Brigham Square, I saw a mob of what appeared to be about 50 supergeeks anxiously waiting in the rain for the opening of the atrium doors. They were all chanting and beating their chests... "Open the doors, open the doors!" some had torches... (ok, they weren't chanting or anything, but there really was a big mob of about 50 nerds out there!).

I'm still baffled as to why they're so anxious to get in here already. I figured I'd give them all the benefit of the doubt and assume that they all thought school started today instead of next week. Nevertheless, be on high dweeb alert... don't go in any dark alleys alone with school books or calculators, that's where they'll get you! Just thought I'd send out a warning... the supernerds are back already.

Happy New Year's Library Security!!!

What did you do?

And who ended up flushing the toilets during the break?