So I'm out, safe, all that. I get what she was yelling about at least a bit. The apartment she's placed in seems like it's not actually zoned as an apartment properly. The reason I bring that up, besides her saying it, is minor's comment. There was only one exit. Second story with one door out and windows with no ladders or platforms. Pretty fucked up!
I don't know if I've ever seen an apartment complex with ladders/platforms outside the windows (in Texas)
So I'm out, safe, all that. I get what she was yelling about at least a bit. The apartment she's placed in seems like it's not actually zoned as an apartment properly. The reason I bring that up, besides her saying it, is minor's comment. There was only one exit. Second story with one door out and windows with no ladders or platforms. Pretty fucked up!
I don't know if I've ever seen an apartment complex with ladders/platforms outside the windows (in Texas)
With second floor apartments it's a requirement here. If there's a porch out a window upstairs that's usually enough, but yeah I've definitely seen a lot of shit that doesn't pass here.
And even if it doesn't, there's never enough people to enforce.
I'm not sure if this is the entire company or just the IT department, but we're currently in the process of instituting an official "no meetings on Friday unless it's a legit emergency" policy, and boy I hope that goes through. I don't even have that many meetings on Friday generally, but just knowing I straight up won't have to worry about it ever again is a very night thought.
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I'm going to start blocking off most of my calendar with fake meetings so people stop inviting me to real ones
I block off 8-9:30, lunch and 5-6 every day, works like a charm
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Got my first material consideration form in a while. It's the official form we give to patrons when they think material is age inappropriate or shouldn't be in the collection at all. Given everything that's been going on, I had the Kill Bill siren faintly cranking up as soon as it was handed to me.
Turns out the customer thought that the letters of Vincent van Gough and his brother Theo got a bit too ribald and used some cuss words that might be more appropriate in the YA nonfiction section rather than juvenile nonfiction. They stressed that it was a wonderful biography and that they were in no way suggesting that it should be removed from the collection or that parents should be prevented from letting their kids read it when they thought they were ready.
Really heartwarming to get one of these forms from someone who understands the problem and doesn't want to be part of it. And it's even criticizing a book about a couple of cishet white dudes, so I don't have to worry about whether they're being secretly weird about it!
Are you going to move it, or are you continue to teach the juveniles to cuss like they need?
Hard to say, the collection development department will review it and make a recommendation to the executive director. I'd lean towards it moving because even though the publisher coded it as Juvenile Literature, School Library Journal reviewed it as YA and YALSA gave it an award a few years back. It's a pretty blurry distinction.
I'm afraid the youths will need to cuss the same way we did: by watching old PG movies that were rated in the pre PG-13 era.
I'm afraid the youths will need to cuss the same way we did: by watching old PG movies that were rated in the pre PG-13 era.
I was surprised when I shared ET with my kids a few years back it has the delightful insult "penis breath" in it. I didn't remember that one from my own youth.
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Got my first material consideration form in a while. It's the official form we give to patrons when they think material is age inappropriate or shouldn't be in the collection at all. Given everything that's been going on, I had the Kill Bill siren faintly cranking up as soon as it was handed to me.
Turns out the customer thought that the letters of Vincent van Gough and his brother Theo got a bit too ribald and used some cuss words that might be more appropriate in the YA nonfiction section rather than juvenile nonfiction. They stressed that it was a wonderful biography and that they were in no way suggesting that it should be removed from the collection or that parents should be prevented from letting their kids read it when they thought they were ready.
Really heartwarming to get one of these forms from someone who understands the problem and doesn't want to be part of it. And it's even criticizing a book about a couple of cishet white dudes, so I don't have to worry about whether they're being secretly weird about it!
So no one's found James Joyce's love letters to his wife yet huh?
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
I don't think DK publishes Eyewitness: Fart Perverts for the juvenile audience these days.
I'm honestly not seeing why letters between Van Gogh and his brothers were in the Juvenile section anyway. Did ol' VVG do childrens books or something? Why would small children be interested in reading his letters?
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I'm honestly not seeing why letters between Van Gogh and his brothers were in the Juvenile section anyway. Did ol' VVG do childrens books or something? Why would small children be interested in reading his letters?
Cataloging departments are just people. They make mistakes from time to time, especially if they are processing a lot of materials.
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But sir! You repeat yourself!
I don't know if I've ever seen an apartment complex with ladders/platforms outside the windows (in Texas)
With second floor apartments it's a requirement here. If there's a porch out a window upstairs that's usually enough, but yeah I've definitely seen a lot of shit that doesn't pass here.
And even if it doesn't, there's never enough people to enforce.
Are you sure she doesn't post here?
I block off 8-9:30, lunch and 5-6 every day, works like a charm
My experience is that this doesn't work.
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Turns out the customer thought that the letters of Vincent van Gough and his brother Theo got a bit too ribald and used some cuss words that might be more appropriate in the YA nonfiction section rather than juvenile nonfiction. They stressed that it was a wonderful biography and that they were in no way suggesting that it should be removed from the collection or that parents should be prevented from letting their kids read it when they thought they were ready.
Really heartwarming to get one of these forms from someone who understands the problem and doesn't want to be part of it. And it's even criticizing a book about a couple of cishet white dudes, so I don't have to worry about whether they're being secretly weird about it!
Moving it down to the even younger children section next
Hard to say, the collection development department will review it and make a recommendation to the executive director. I'd lean towards it moving because even though the publisher coded it as Juvenile Literature, School Library Journal reviewed it as YA and YALSA gave it an award a few years back. It's a pretty blurry distinction.
I'm afraid the youths will need to cuss the same way we did: by watching old PG movies that were rated in the pre PG-13 era.
I was surprised when I shared ET with my kids a few years back it has the delightful insult "penis breath" in it. I didn't remember that one from my own youth.
So no one's found James Joyce's love letters to his wife yet huh?
Actually, nevermind, I'm so fascinated by this book I should just get it from my own library. I'll let you all know what I think.
Edit: huh. My local library put it YA.
Cataloging departments are just people. They make mistakes from time to time, especially if they are processing a lot of materials.
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