By: jessamyn
nekton, you might also like the Flickr group that has a bunch of homemade READ posters. Here's mine, a little NSFW.
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Having explored the ALA website more thoroughly, I have to say it makes me really happy that those READ posters are still being made. Tony Hawk reading High Fidelity? Stephen Hawking reading a Marilyn...
View ArticleBy: booksherpa
Loquacious: Waitasec, how in the hell do you move 4 single-handled two-wheeled carts at once, especially when loaded!? Er, yeah. Not loaded, actually. I can move 4 empties by kinda stacking them one on...
View ArticleBy: LeeJay
I think you librarians are underestimating us. The fact that such a thing exists makes me love librarians even more.
View ArticleBy: fluffycreature
My first thought was "Gee can't imagine why I have never dated a librarian..." *saracasm intended* But then listening to the librarians talk about themselves, lighten up. We need people to act silly...
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Ah, thanks booksherpa. *looks at link* I've never actually seen a handcart like that. Waitasec, how in the hell do you move 4 single-handled two-wheeled carts at once, especially when loaded!?
View ArticleBy: QIbHom
Wow, I didn't know there were book trucks that rolled straight. All the ancient book trucks I've used (at 3 different libraries) made grocery carts look like smooth rollers.
View ArticleBy: booksherpa
The two major bookchains both have small carts to push smaller quantities of books around. Borders uses a V cart - picture 3 vertical pieces of pipe, connected at the top with a handle sticking out of...
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By: ulotrichous
Libraries have an image problem??? The bun. Trouble is, the bun's not just on our heads, it's in our MINDS.
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booksherpa: What's a V/H cart? More specifically - I know what a cart is, of course, but what does V/H signify? Google is totally stymied by my searching efforts, and that rarely happens to me.
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Damnit, I was hoping for/expecting high speed precision reshelving action. I could use some expert pointers before my books bury and/or kill me.* Instead I got more motion-sick and confused than any...
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Library carts are unwieldy things. They are easier when empty, as they appear to be in the video, but still unwieldy. Looks like good fun to me, and I'll admit to being a little impressed. Next year...
View ArticleBy: LeLiLo
My first thought when I saw that post was "I hope they didn't run over jessamyn."
View ArticleBy: jessamyn
I have mixed feelings about this. I liked watching a lot of librarians who otherwise wouldn't have gotten out in front of other people and been goofy for love or money strut their stuff. On the other...
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I think that video makes more sense if you watch it while listening to The Dark Side of the Moon.
View ArticleBy: Floydd
Last year my home team won. My buddy Mike was the choreographer. Libraries have an image problem???
View ArticleBy: agregoli
Having witnessed this once when I worked at my hometown library, and hearing my mother's repeated embarassment at having it still every year at her library, I concur with ulotrichous - the first...
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