h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Tutors!!!!

I’m currently issuing a Library survey here on our little campus, and as the only member of library staff I’ve got the joyful job of processing the data for over 700 students and their tutors as well as trying to keep the library functioning. HO hum, fun and games and paper everywhere.

What dismays me are some of the answers returned of said surveys. A proportion of the groups have said they can’t find the books they need, on the same forms they have then acknowledged that they don’t ask for any help from the library staff ie. Me!!!! Is it any wonder they struggle!

Even worse have been the tutors I’ve been chasing for months to get reading lists and book requests from listing our range of books as bad.

*bangs head against brick wall*

On the plus side however all the tutors have classed me as being very helpful – and the students I spend hours chucking out of here after I find them turning our back room into a canteen have classed me as ok.

*sits back and waits for the notorious ND sports group to return its forms*

*places a plaster on Odo's head*

*pinches some of Icky's paint and repaints the stain on the wall*

*puts on the kettle*

Fancy a cup of ?

Is Icky still decorating?

*sits down in the comfy chair*..

Yes please....


The last I heard Icky was still decorating .. yes..

Perhaps you should have included a question asking them for their level of knowledge of the Dewey system (or whatever you use, Dewey must be pretty archaic by now).

Maybe you should use this as an excuse to close the library for a re-classification exercise. Say reverse alphanumeric order by Authors middle name.

You could spend weeks on it!

And they could never get rid of you cos no one else would know where anything is!

Icky!

You lickul lurker!!

*takes some of the books off the shelf in the 'management' section and places them amongst some books in the 'chemistry' section

*plumps up the cushions for lil and hands out *

Oh well, I suppose it's best to get it all finished before summer starts.

Icky, yes we still use Dewey although I have adapted it slightly to suit the studnets so there are a couple of sections that are techinally in the 'wrong place'.

Closing the library for a few weeks would go down a storm, especially as final assignments are due in between now and the start of June.

As for my position here, I'll find out either on Wednesday or Thursday next week.

Miss! Miss! He's messing up the books Miss! Look!! Miss!!

YOu'll have a job 2Legs, we don't do chemistry here so....

*fixes 2Legs with her best and fiercest librarian stare*

.... so now young man you can pick those tomes up again and put them back where you found them or else!!!!!

*giggles*


*sips her *

You will behave in MY library or else!!!

*sips and hands lil the tin.*

They'll soon learn.

not if they can;t find the books they won't

*takes a slice of *

Yes.. so I have noticed.. *looks over the top of her glasses*


Odo, do you normally have them walking about attached to a ball and chain?

OOo, I like it when your strict *moves the books back* *picks up a copy of Immunology fourth edition and skims through the chapters Have you a copy of 'Bacterial systamatics'? I can't rmeember who the author is anymore *puts the copy of Immunology' fourth edition, by Cooby back onto the shelf, in the '16 Centuary literature section

at Icky.

They'll find the books. I've moved them out of the dark and dingey corner that's blocked by our photocopier and mixed the archeaology in with the landscape history so that's it's all in the one place when they come to start the assignment.

We don't do literature here 2Legs; and I haven't got a copy of Bacterial Systamatics - however I can give you a nice copy of Parasites and Skin Diseases by Gray if you like. If not you can have Blacks' Veterinary Dictionary.

Lil, I've got to keep them tame somehow. Anyway all that friction provides us with a steady supply of static to keep the lights working.

Now I understand!

Ooo, Parasites and Skin Diseases! s over to have a flick through the book Just look at this micropapule rash! and thats a wonderful Erythematus rash here wouldn't you say? Differnetial diagnosis of SLE, DLE, and a reaction to chemical exposure I'd say wouldn't you?

See, everything is perfectly logical and well thought out down here.

even the hamsters that power the ancient machines that we laughingly call computers have their rest days and breaks. We even provide respite care for the .

So with all these requests for info coming up, are you going to make them book in advance?

hahahahaha
sorry.
*hangs head*