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Ann/TheoAnn wrote: "I should have just picked up my holds. And the library should not have had an entire cart labeled "Brand New Books". So it's not really my fault, right?..."
Uh, sure TheoAnn! I'll buy this rationale if I can use it on occasion also....
TheoAnn, I can only reserve a couple of books at a time from the library because they always come in at the same time. "The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane is one on my list. Right now I have "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" and "The Rightous Wife". Your have some great reading ahead of you.
Ann/TheoAnn wrote: "I should have just picked up my holds. And the library should not have had an entire cart labeled "Brand New Books". So it's not really my fault, right?This is some of what I came home with:
The Cruelest Month - Louise Penny (no, I haven't read the others,lol, should I care?..."
Should you care??? NOOOOOO!!!! Life it too short to worry about reading in order!!
Sacrifice - S.J. Bolton (debut novel with a blurb by Tess Gerritsen on the cover; anyone heard anything?) Iamgoing to Thrillerfest next month and this book has been nominated under Best First Novel. I just picked up a copy.
In my case, the library engaged in bad behavior. They notified me that a hold had come in on Monday and said they would keep it until the 23rd. I went in to claim the hold today and found out they had sent it on to the next person on the hold list! I am not happy camper. They re-instated me on top of the hold list, so it will come right back to me when it's returned, but this really shouldn't have happened.Shomeret
NR: Shimura Trouble by Sujata Massey
Shomeret:I wouldn't have been a happy camper either. I have seen that happen "electronically" a couple of times, I will be next on the hold list and then boom I am behind someone else and waiting again. I think sometimes someone picks up a book that was returned and should have gone to the next hold and they check it out instead. Our library wraps the hold book in paper and cover the spine so you can't see what they are on the shelf, but nothing would stop someone from picking up a book and checking it out. Our hold pick up shelves are self service.
Shomeret wrote: "In my case, the library engaged in bad behavior. They notified me that a hold had come in on Monday and said they would keep it until the 23rd. I went in to claim the hold today and found ou they had sent it on to the next person on the hold list! I am not happy camper..."
That stinks, Shom. I've never had a problem with my library. They know I come in every week, because I always have to return something, and usually pick something(s) up.
Ann wrote: "Shomeret:I wouldn't have been a happy camper either. I have seen that happen "electronically" a couple of times, I will be next on the hold list and then boom I am behind someone else and waiting..."
My city's system doesn't have self-service holds. The holds are behind the desk. So it really shouldn't have happened.
My neighboring city does have self-service holds and they have assured me that you can't get the book unless you are the one who is supposed to get the book. The computer will identify the library card as being the incorrect patron.
Shomeret
NR: The Diamond King by Patricia Potter (historical romance)
Shomeret:That is interesting. I don't get the impression our library system can do that. Nice!
Shomeret wrote: " My neighboring city does have self-service holds and they have assured me that you can't get the book unless you are the one who is supposed to get the book. The computer will identify the library card as being the incorrect patron.
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When I saw this subject, I thought it was about the people who are coming into the Library and HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO ACT!!!!! I can't tell you how many times I'm using a computer and have to remind kids (and sometimes grownups!) to use their "Library voices."One day there was a gal who was looking at some kind of chat room and talking on her cell phone, and using lots of four letter words! I finally got up and told her that the WHOLE LIBRARY could hear her conversation! Two others gave me silent applause as I sat down.
Usually the ladies at the desk will handle it, but sometimes they don't, and I'm just old enough now to speak up! I've also started to listen to my ipod Shuffle while I'm at the computer to cut out the noise.
Donna in Southern Maryland
(who is VERY grateful that there IS a Library to come to!)
Donna in Southern Maryland wrote: "When I saw this subject, I thought it was about the people who are coming into the Library and HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO ACT!!!!! I can't tell you how many times I'm using a computer and have to remind k..."I was at the library today where one patron was having a loud cell phone conversation. He was asked to leave. I happened to be leaving at the same time. I overheard him resuming his conversation outside the library and was saying indignantly at the top of his lungs that he'd just been thrown out of the library. He thought that the public library had no right to throw out a taxpaying citizen.
Shomeret
(library student shaking her head in amazement)
Shomeret reported: I was at the library today where one patron was having a loud cell phone conversation. He was asked to leave. I happened to be leaving at the same time. I overheard him resuming his conversation outside the library and was saying indignantly at the top of his lungs that he'd just been thrown out of the library. He thought that the public library had no right to throw out a taxpaying citizen. Shom, I have a theory. Do you remeember in the TV show and movie Get Smart that there was this plastic CONE OF SILENCE that Maxwell Smart would use when he wanted a private phone conversation? I believe many people THINK there is such a thing, except it's invisible!
That's the only explanation I can come up with!
Donna in Southern Maryland
This is some of what I came home with:
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane - Katherine Howe
The Secret SCripture - Sebastian Barry
Grave Goods - Ariana Franklin
The King James Conspiracy - Philip DePoy
The Cruelest Month - Louise Penny (no, I haven't read the others,lol, should I care?)
Confessions of an Eco-Sinner - Fred Pearce
Sacrifice - S.J. Bolton (debut novel with a blurb by Tess Gerritsen on the cover; anyone heard anything?)
Beach Trip - Cathy Holton (yay, the women reuning in the reunion books are now my age; I have loved this genre since I read Rona Jaffe's class reunion when I was probably a teenager)
And a few others...
And that doesn't count the books I got last week either.