Rules of the Royal Academy Library, 1814

[pellegrina]

1. The Library shall be open every Monday (except during the Vacations), from ten o'clock in the morning until four in the afternoon

Comments

[pellegrina]

I can definitely get behind this, especially section 1.

[parrot_knight]

Was the Librarian expected to be a working painter as well?

[eglantine_br]

What is bread used for?

[pellegrina]

To erase the pencil, I think.

[wellinghall]

I am suitably amused :-)

[adaese]

When my father was a boy, Richmond Park apparently had several rules including:

Nobody may remove any cattle from the park

and

Nobody may suffer cattle to remain in the park.

[daniel_saunders]

As my father would say, "What, we're expected to work EVERY Monday?!"

I'm hoping that if I ever do manage to qualify and find an open library to employ me, my work will be more interesting than inspecting patrons taking books off shelves and replacing them. Mind you, I've seen libraries where someone, user or librarian, had clearly failed to work out how to replace books in the proper place. Or even to get them the right way up and with the spine facing outwards.

[wellinghall]

No idea whether you've got a Facebook account / can see this, but:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=471654522885770&set=a.214854775232414.68253.202452219806003&type=1&theater

[sally_maria]

After years of experience in a book shop, I can assure you that very few people seem capable of the obviously highly challenging feat of putting books back where they got them from, let alone the right place.

[jane_somebody]

I've seen libraries where someone, user or librarian, had clearly failed to work out how to replace books in the proper place. Or even to get them the right way up and with the spine facing outwards.

I currently help in a library which very much suffers from this problem. However, since it is the tiny library in my sons' school, where the users are between 4 and 7 years old, there is more excuse than most! And replacing books properly is one of the skills we are trying to teach them (they use 'browsing sticks', i.e. rulers, to mark the place on the shelf when they take a book down to look at, so they can put it back where they got it from if they decide not to borrow it, which I think is an excellent idea.)