They/Them/Theirs pronouns. Youth Services Librarian. I play games (poorly), do technology and FLOSS things (non-optimally), and have Opinions (frequently). Often seen wearing floral print shirts.

Website: https://heofhishirts.neocities.org

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All right, friends, I need outside perspective on two things:
1) Is it normal user behavior to, upon seeing the help desk is unattended, call the library phone line from inside the library to report this and demand assistance?
I want to make sure that I'm not thinking something is weird, when it's a perfectly normal practice like honkwiching, and I'm just behind the times.

2025-07-26 23:59:04 UTC

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I usually try to put the line at "can I discover information about this that I would consider credible?" If so, I'll pursue, but there are times where I have to go "okay, everything that I can find suggests that we'll have to visit websites /publishers that I can't vouch for. I can give you the pointers and explain ILL, but that's as far as my higher-ups will let me go."
Surprisingly, most people are okay with that, even as I worry they're headed into Wonderland.

2025-04-11 18:45:21 UTC

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Definitely not. He probably has alerts set so that when someone invokes him, usually to criticize him, he can go right there to engage in harassment (or continue engaging in such, since he seems to be the kind of person who will absolutely persist long after being told to go away.

2025-04-11 18:41:36 UTC

The next session at #wla2025 that I'm going to be listening to is "Creating a Supportive, Safe & Secure Library" from folks at https://www.saferlibraries.com , which, as far as I know, has nothing to do with that other guy who thinks he's on a moral crusade against libraries peddling adult materials to the underage who also uses Safe Libraries or Safer Libraries in his crusade. Not naming him because he tends to show up when summoned by name, even in places you wouldn't normally expect him to be.