17 quietly hilarious tweets from the Lousy Librarian account
10.
"Instead of libraries everyone should just get a Kindle."
"Great idea! And instead of roads everyone should just get a bucket of asphalt."— Lousy Librarian (@LousyLibrarian) June 24, 2015
11.
Took a minute to get an answer to a patron's reference question from one of the databases we subscribe to. Checked afterwards and got the exact same answer by Googling. For God's sake don't tell our budget people.
— Lousy Librarian (@LousyLibrarian) February 9, 2023
12.
Found out that despite the widespread story that the Library of Alexandria burned down, supposedly it actually declined gradually over time due to lack of support and money and resources, and honestly I’ve never found the Library of Alexandria more relatable.
— Lousy Librarian (@LousyLibrarian) November 28, 2022
13.
Yes the library opens at 9:30 but given the time it takes for staff to log into all of our services, computers and resources with different passwords and multifactor authentication, we’ll be ready to help you around 10:05.
— Lousy Librarian (@LousyLibrarian) January 26, 2023
14.
"Did you go to school to be a librarian? You must be pretty smart."
"I try."
"What's the capital of Slovenia?"
"I can look that up for you."
"Well, ANYONE could do that."
"But could they do it with my jaded world-weariness?"— Lousy Librarian (@LousyLibrarian) November 30, 2022
15.
"Did you want to be a librarian when you were a little kid?"
"I barely want to be one as a grownup."— Lousy Librarian (@LousyLibrarian) January 25, 2023
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It is a mark of our professional savvy and capacity for planning that our library has allotted the smallest portion of the new arrivals shelves to Sci-Fi and Fantasy, a category in which books are never known to be in any way large.
— Lousy Librarian (@LousyLibrarian) January 6, 2023
17.
Library patron whose movie requests are all devilish brain-teasers:
–It has Brad Pitt but not Brad Pitt
–A new movie definitely called Iron Man but it's not a superhero movie
–The title is Carnage but it has a "sh"
–It rhymes with "unstoppable"— Lousy Librarian (@LousyLibrarian) December 21, 2022
BONUS
Elon Musk has taken over our library and now for $16 a month you can keep borrowed materials for three extra days plus a free bookmark
— Lousy Librarian (@LousyLibrarian) November 2, 2022
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