SETTING: My "liberry" as a female patron is looking through the Nora Roberts paperbacks houseded on our paperback wall as I shelve other books nearby.
PATRON— Oh, no! You have the first book and the third book, but not the second book.
ME— Did you try in the hardbacks?
PATRON— Yeah. I just came from there.
(Patron continues to look)
(Time passes)
PATRON— Oh, wait. You did have the second book. It was just in the wrong place.
ME— A book misshelved in our library? I'll not hear such accusations!
(The patron smirks and walks away, found book in hand.)
1 comment:
Oh, the horrors of a misshelved book! I always feel like such an idiot when I check the computer and it tells me the book is checked in, but it's not to be found when I lead the customer to the shelves.
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