Library Annecdotes: Have Printer Will Travel

...this particular guy also brought along a full-size HP laser printer (in the box) that he wheeled in on one of those luggage carriers. He was quiet, did what he needed to do in about an hour’s time, then he packed-up his printer and laptop and left. … I never saw this before in the Library. Have Printer Will Travel

See also on the same shelf:

• Unusual Reference Questions - Globalism Visited


• Blogga Song of Librarians


• The Librarians - an Australian ABC Comedy Series


• Silence Please: Mr. Bean, The Library


• Thou shalt read on rainy afternoons
• True Library stories
• "Humor is allowed in reference desk answers"
• Librarian Humor in Classroom and Reference
• What do you do when the internet is down?
• Case Studies from India: Evidence-based Librarianship
• Funny you should ask: Humor at the Reference Desk
• Unusual Reference Questions - Globalism Visited
• How to kill a young librarian's love of librarianship (AKA. A Dispute Resolution Guide)
• A ‘typical’ library school student "By generalizing librarians to be a women with a buns and a finger up to their mouths ’shhshhing’ we simplify a complicated, multi-faceted profession."

New 3 Rs: Revolution, Reorganization and Renovation ~ Thought for the day

"One of the chapters especially caught my eye. It is by one of the Charleston Conference mentors – Susan Campbell (Director, York College Library, York, Pennsylvania). Her paper is called “The New 3 Rs: Revolution, Reorganization and Renovation.” In it Susan explains how Schmidt Library managed a reorganization that eliminated 13 clerical positions and created 11 new full-time and 2 new part-time positions as well as performing renovations in three and a half months with $3.5 million."

quoted in Rumor of the day by katina.strauch (For book chapters and much more 'Connection. Competition. Collaboration,' See: Defining Relevancy, Managing the New Academic Library, edited by Janet McNeil Hurlbert, Libraries Unlimited, 2007