Library 101: Book Etiquette

We (librarians) see this all the time. Patrons return books with the pages dog-eared, passages highlighted or underlined in pen, marker, or pencil, and with writing in the margins. To us, it's obvious that these are things you do not do, but apparently the rest of the world doesn't understand this, so here I am…

Librarianish 101

Something I've become increasingly aware of working at the Circulation desk for an hour a day is that the terms librarians (and library staff) use are not the ones that the patrons use, and it's largely because patrons don't know the difference between them. What patrons want is for their items to be there waiting…