Comments on: The Worst Librarian Ever

By: Don Withmaiwerk

Don Withmaiwerk — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:32:41 +0000

i feel that a library is pointless. it is no longer a medium for up-to-date information or a stimulus for entertainment. it is now an out of date, unmodernized system of communication. It is limited by the fact that the transfer of information is obsolete when it comes to the efficiency of computers. I hope someone tears your eyes out and keeps the retinas intact.

By: Alla

Alla — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 04:25:56 +0000

I am a public librarian, and I understand why librarians in the public sector end up so cranky. You don’t go into the field expecting to deal with abusive patrons on a daily basis. That is exactly what happens, though, when you work with the public. After two years, I’m ready to leave the field entirely.

By: Adric A.

Adric A. — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 00:07:12 +0000

After working as a library assistant because I need some way to make money, I can see where librarians would get bored and grouchy, in some ways. I considered library science as a graduate degree, but it sounds dull as nails, like being a ‘custodian’ of sorts, a janitor of information, mopping up the corridors of more glamorous, groundbreaking and showy fields of the arts and sciences.

There are more than likely a lot of liberal arts majors working in libraries of varying social temperaments because the job seems the lesser of the evils in earning a living: not as hectic and stressful as waiting tables, not as low paying as working at a grocery store. Well, I may be wrong about the pay at grocery stores, now that I consider what some libraries pay.

I have always been quite affable towards patrons, but there has at times been a lurking resentment, a resentment at the self-importance and pomposity displayed by certain patrons in the research/academia settings.

So I may appear as the happy, helpful library assistant…….but oh, how I’d love to slash the tires on your SUV………….

By: J.K. Brown

J.K. Brown — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 00:15:09 +0000

After all these comments, I’m still not getting over the idea that someone would put WHITE furniture in a public space. Every workday I go into a space that was designed by an architect that knows nothing about how libraries work and wasn’t prepared to listen to the librarian who was there to advise him. It just makes things harder. Sounds like the guy was an interior decorator before he was an architect.

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By: Ex-librarian

Ex-librarian — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 00:54:14 +0000

I’d have to say that the worst librarian I ever met was the one I don’t work for anymore. She runs a high school library, and is the meanest, smallest-minded, most vindictive, ignorant person I ever had the displeasure to work for. She tried time and again to sabotage me- meanwhile, co-workers started coming to me during her breaks, telling me how horrible she was, how she had been for years, and how I was in her cross-hairs. I do not know why she suddenly decided to hate me beyond all reason. She’d often call in sick and show up with a sunburn, leaving me with her work, with no notice or even a thank you afterwards. I went from enthusiastic new librarian, hard worker with lots of energy to a cynical ex-librarian. I’ve worked in some hellish jobs in my day, but I’ve never been so glad to leave that depressing place and that miserable woman. She is tenured and hates her job. She deserves it.

By: betting tipster

betting tipster — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 12:39:24 +0000

What a great story. It makes the librarian in my local library seem like an angel in comparison.

All the best in 2006 for all the readers of librarianavengers.

By: Drew Alfgren

Drew Alfgren — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 21:53:59 +0000

I know more than a few who came to the profession because they could no longer stomach the one they had originally trained for (lawyers come to mind) or they couldn’t get jobs/finish degrees in their chosen field (think any social science abd) and had to get a job doing SOMETHING. Never mind that they aren’t service oriented, or WANT to be librarians, or enjoy the work, it provides a paycheck. Those that make the conversion and come to like the job are a great asset; but boy howdy, the ones that are forever wannabe-something-else rank real high in the worst librarians ever category imho.

By: jay

jay — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 01:51:50 +0000

one simply has to wonder why some people got into this business. it certainly boggles *me*. but i like being the one who likes fruitcake. “you don’t want a big crowd with lots of complicated questions? more for me!!”

By: BOB yardley

BOB yardley — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:40:53 +0000

worst librarian i have some candidates but their failings could fill books

start with the utter lack of tech expertise

time up gotta go
boby ST Pete Fla lib patron