Once upon a time, I was so busy at lunch time that I couldn't get out from
the Library, so I put up a [large] sign saying 'Physically Present -
Technically Absent - i.e. it is my Lunch Break !' only to have it
comprehensively ignored .. 'I know it's your lunch, but couldn't you just
find me ..) !
And yes, the moving drama, 'I know it's in the bottom crate .. ' !
Thanks to all for cheering up Friday - and - if it's not too late and you've
all closed up and gone, have a good bank holiday !
Elizabeth Nokes
-----Original Message-----
From: UK medical/ health care library community / information workers
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Gordon Smith
Sent: 26 August 2005 15:57
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: cheering thought
We had experiences similar to Derick and Jan when we moved nearly five years
ago. There were some who guessed which box their book would be in, and
expected us to unpack it! And of course CLOSED means closed to everyone
except them, which we would have put if we had really thought about it,
wouldn't we?
Gordon.
Gordon Smith
The Sally Howell Library
Epsom General Hospital
Dorking Road
Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7EG
Tel. 01372-735688, Fax 01372-735687
NULJ=HOWE, HLN=EP
<<Cela est bien dit>> rEpondit Candide
<<mais il faut cultiver notre jardin>>. - Voltaire.
>>> "Dobson, Malcolm" <[log in to unmask]> 26/08/2005
15:32:37 >>>
Perhaps these people could be put to good use - if they manage to get in
without seeing the 'closed' signs etc try locking the door behind them & not
letting them out until they've moved a computer/table/box of books etc.
A bit worrying if a student at a college of optometrists didn't see the
signs - did you manage not to suggest they have their eyes tested?
-----Original Message-----
From: Jan Ayres [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 26 August 2005 15:26
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: cheering thought
Reminds me of the time when we were moving the Library from one building to
another and closed for two days. One student managed to by-pass the closed
signs and the fierce receptionist and stood in the middle of a room
containing only half built shelves and boxes of books piled floor to ceiling
and said, 'well I only want to borrow a book'...
Jan Ayres
Librarian
College of Optometrists
42 Craven Street
London WC2N 5NG
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From: UK medical/ health care library community / information workers
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Derick Yates
Sent: 26 August 2005 15:06
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: cheering thought
Here's a cheering thought.....
We have the decorators in over the weekend and because we've had to move all
our PCs out of the room, move the journals off their shelves, move furniture
etc, (all those jobs no one ever imagines a librarian doing) we've closed
for the day. We've put up closed signs on the library door and on the doors
of all entrances into the centre where the library is located. We sent
global emails around on Wednesday, explaining that we are closed from
yesterday at 2 until we open again on Wednesday next week.
Our door, which is always open during office hours, has been closed, meaning
that anyone coming through the door would need to stop, take out their swipe
card, swipe in and then come through a door with a big red "CLOSED" on it.
So far we've had....
2 students, a nurse, 3 junior doctors, a professor and a head of department
who all appear to have lost the ability to read for the day, and have come
in regardless, only to have us say, "sorry we're closed. Didn't you see the
signs on the doors?"
See all that reading, does us some good after all....
;-)
Derick Yates AKA "Coanan the Librarian"
Training & Systems Librarian
BHSN Library Management System Administrator
Trust Library and Information Service
Birmingham Women's Health Care NHS Trust
Metchley Park Lane
Edgbaston
BIRMINGHAM
B15 2TG
Tel: 0121 472 1377 extension 8746
Direct Dial Tel: 0121 627 5856
Fax: 0121 623 6922
-----Original Message-----
From: UK medical/ health care library community / information workers
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Woodley Zena (RQ8) Mid
Essex Hospital
Sent: 26 August 2005 14:22
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: cheering thought
I may be observed after ringing for a wedding in Southwark Cathedral
tomorrow at 2.15pm... I will be carrying a book.....later, I can be seen
hanging over the upper balcony at the Royal Albert Hall......Gosh,
information AND bell-ringing....
Enjoy the weekend, everyone!
Zena
-----Original Message-----
From: UK medical/ health care library community / information workers
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Hilton Boon Michele
Sent: 26 August 2005 14:13
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [LIS-MEDICAL] cheering thought
Hmm. I would prefer it if folk generally did assume that I read a lot,
whether it's true or not. :^)
Let me share a recent anecdote on this topic - one of my clinical colleagues
recently offered me the following 'compliment' in a tone of amazement: 'You
know, you've completely changed my opinion of librarians!' I'm pretty sure
from the context that he was referring to my subversive attitude (little
does he know) - definitely not my fashion sense.
This week's CILIP Update magazine addresses our image problem in the
back-page column (with reference to the infamous librarian action figure
with 'shushing' ability) and, if memory serves, you will also find a sad
plea on the letters page from a poor soul who hopes that continuing to wear
a bun doesn't mean she must be drummed out of the profession.
Amusingly, today's Pharmaceutical Journal carries an article about the image
problem of pharmacists - and concludes (echoing one of today's posts on
LIS-MEDICAL) that what the profession needs is a sexy pharmacist on TV and a
serial drama about pharmacy! Perhaps we could all team up...or Bill Oddie
could do a series observing rare professionals in their seldom-seen
habitats...
http://www.pharmj.com/Editorial/20050827/comment/spectrum.html
<http://www.pharmj.com/Editorial/20050827/comment/spectrum.html>
Michele
--
Michele Hilton Boon
Information Scientist
National Prescribing Centre
-----Original Message-----
From: UK medical/ health care library community / information workers
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Medwenna Buckland
Sent: 26 August 2005 13:39
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: cheering thought
If I had a pound for every time somebody said to me "oh, so do you read a
lot" when I tell them I work in a library, I'd be extremely rich (actually I
probably do read a lot, but I dislike the assumption). People then assume
that you work in a public library and no matter how many times you try to
explain what a medical library is, they retain that impression and at some
point will come along with a big box of old novels for you, saying "I
thought you might want them for the library".
I think I'll go and buy some high heels.
Medwenna Buckland
Acting Senior Library Assistant
UCL Institute of Orthopaedics Library
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital
Brockley Hill
Stanmore
Middlesex
HA7 4LP
Ph: +44 (0)20 8909 5351
Fax: +44 (0)20 8909 5390
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