Things which you should please *not* do in your Public Library
1) Prepare your cigarettes in the Fiction area, leaving your cigarette papers and bits of tobacco all over the place.
2) Drape your sweater/shirt/socks/other articles of clothing over the radiators.
3) Get drunk and pass out in the disabled loo/in the Fiction area/over a computer
4) Get drunk and fall over on the floor and not be able to get up again
5) Bring alcoholic beverages into the library 'cunningly' disguised as soft drinks and spill them everywhere.
6) Get drunk or high and smash up the ladies toilet
7) Use the toilet in such a way that pee and poo goes on the floor.
8) Pee in the Fiction area
9) Allow your child to poo in the cafe area and not tell anyone or clear it up
10) Allow your small child to pull books off the shelves and throw them all over and then just leave the mess.
11) Yell at staff about how you 'pay their wages/pay your taxes'.....yeah, they pay taxes too, and the amount of tax that ends up in our wages is pretty small.
12) Yell at staff about how you don't like the way the library is run. The front line staff will nearly always be bottom-of-the-totem-pole and have nothing to do with how the library is run, such decisions are made by top management. The staff have to put up with all the things you don't like, and for longer than you do as they are there several days a week and often for a full working day.
13) Sigh and moan and bitch because you have to wait in a queue. It's a part of life, for God's sake.
14) Try to push in on the basis that you are old/disabled/in a hurry, wait your damn turn!!!!
15) Dawdle about when the staff have said it's closing time, library staff have lives too!!!!!
16) Allow your children to run about the place screaming like maniacs. The library welcomes children and they are welcome to play in the children's area, but it's a frigging library not a playground.
17) Leave your children unattended, it's a library, not a creche, there is a busy road outside and lots of weirdos about.
18) Expect the library staff to know how to do complex things on a computer, or to know how to 'fix' Facebook/email/other website problems. Library staff are *library* staff, not IT experts.
19) When using the cafe, putting bits of cake/baby wipes/rubbish into mugs with tea/coffee still inside.
20) Completely ignore the opening times notice by the door and waltz in at 2 mins till closing expecting all the time in the world to choose books/get your fines sorted/use a computer etc. Again, library staff actually have lives outside of work, and by closing time, most will have been there for a good 8 or so hours and just want to go home. Especially on weekend nights.
21) Kick off when the Internet is down or you can't get a computer RIGHT NOW. It's not that big a deal, and if you're that desperate, bugger off to an Internet cafe and pay to use the computers there, or save up your money and buy your own.
2) Drape your sweater/shirt/socks/other articles of clothing over the radiators.
3) Get drunk and pass out in the disabled loo/in the Fiction area/over a computer
4) Get drunk and fall over on the floor and not be able to get up again
5) Bring alcoholic beverages into the library 'cunningly' disguised as soft drinks and spill them everywhere.
6) Get drunk or high and smash up the ladies toilet
7) Use the toilet in such a way that pee and poo goes on the floor.
8) Pee in the Fiction area
9) Allow your child to poo in the cafe area and not tell anyone or clear it up
10) Allow your small child to pull books off the shelves and throw them all over and then just leave the mess.
11) Yell at staff about how you 'pay their wages/pay your taxes'.....yeah, they pay taxes too, and the amount of tax that ends up in our wages is pretty small.
12) Yell at staff about how you don't like the way the library is run. The front line staff will nearly always be bottom-of-the-totem-pole and have nothing to do with how the library is run, such decisions are made by top management. The staff have to put up with all the things you don't like, and for longer than you do as they are there several days a week and often for a full working day.
13) Sigh and moan and bitch because you have to wait in a queue. It's a part of life, for God's sake.
14) Try to push in on the basis that you are old/disabled/in a hurry, wait your damn turn!!!!
15) Dawdle about when the staff have said it's closing time, library staff have lives too!!!!!
16) Allow your children to run about the place screaming like maniacs. The library welcomes children and they are welcome to play in the children's area, but it's a frigging library not a playground.
17) Leave your children unattended, it's a library, not a creche, there is a busy road outside and lots of weirdos about.
18) Expect the library staff to know how to do complex things on a computer, or to know how to 'fix' Facebook/email/other website problems. Library staff are *library* staff, not IT experts.
19) When using the cafe, putting bits of cake/baby wipes/rubbish into mugs with tea/coffee still inside.
20) Completely ignore the opening times notice by the door and waltz in at 2 mins till closing expecting all the time in the world to choose books/get your fines sorted/use a computer etc. Again, library staff actually have lives outside of work, and by closing time, most will have been there for a good 8 or so hours and just want to go home. Especially on weekend nights.
21) Kick off when the Internet is down or you can't get a computer RIGHT NOW. It's not that big a deal, and if you're that desperate, bugger off to an Internet cafe and pay to use the computers there, or save up your money and buy your own.