A collection of completely useless postings from your friendly Librarian, Damien Wang.

Monday, September 15, 2008

Dirty reading habit

I was lunching at Chin Chin today and spotted this guy at the next table who placed a stack of library books on the floor.

I didn't have my digital camera with me, so I snapped a few (unclear) shots using my phone cam:
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It may be a little blurry, but you could make out the color-coded sticker at the spine of the paperback on top of the stack. The A4-sized book below was a superhero trade paperback, but I'm not sure if it's Batman or Batgirl....

Maybe the Library Etiquette posters ought to be placed in other public spaces too....

1 useful comments:

QQ*librarian said...

And what about the people who use library books as covers over their heads when it was raining...I've seen that happening on several occasions, and felt torn whether to step up and tell that person not to do that (in other words, get yourself drenched, but take care of the library books). Library books aren't the most hygienic public items, because you don't know where they have been in the previous borrowers' hands. I'd recommend parents with young children who are particularly susceptible to germs to consider buying your own books in the early years, until the children build up stronger immunities.