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Hm. I'm at the Ref desk at the moment, and a student just walked by with her bookbag, a bottle of water, and a pie.

I couldn't tell what kind - it's in a plastic container with a lid and she was holding it above my eye level, so all I got was a glimpse of the crust.

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...they're allowed to bring food into the library?

Hell, we sell food, at the cafe. It's rare to see elaborate food other than Powerbars, bags of chips, or one of the pieces of fruit that are sold, but I've seen students order pizza. :D There's no official signs posted telling them not to bring food into certain areas of the library, but everyone seems to be reasonably sensible and most of the food stays in the big group study area on the first floor.

Clearly you need a rule that if you're gonna bring pie into the library, you need to bring the ref desk librarian a slice.

Rule? Hell, I think it belongs in the mission statement.

A whole pie, or just a piece? I can imagine making a nice snack out of piece of pie. But a whole one? That just seems hedonistic.

A whole one, as far as I could tell.

Dude, it was pie! Who cares what kind it was.

Obviously you need to confiscate it for yourself. She could have, uh, hidden a bomb in it.

I knew if I didn't say that I couldn't tell what kind it was, one of teh first three posts would ask. XD

Ooo, pie...

And YAY! I just now got your package! New BPAL samples! Ooo, and extras? (at least I hope they didn't get into my package instead of someone elses' by mistake *^_^*) and tea! Everything is made better by tea, yes.

You are very good to me, thank you. ^_^

:D You're welcome! (and now I don't even remember what-all I sent you because my memory is leaky like a wossname XD)

I want pie!

I love pie!

Waaaahhhh!

Jade

I want pie, too!

Lol and I'm all worried when I go to my local community college library to ink and bring my lamp along with me. I think, "Please don't kick me out, saying it's not allowed!!!" And people are bringing PIE.

XD I think that a simple lamp shouldn't be too much of a problem - we get people falling asleep and snoring. :D I don't know if other librarians wake them up - I'm inclined to let them sleep.

I also get really big heavy books off the shelves simply for the purpose of elevating stuff...but I try to use ones that are next to each other!!

In many Australian libraries they now allow food and drink.

There's nothing nicer than having to tidy up the library shelves after the patrons have left - putting your hand under a shelf to retrieve a fallen book, and then squidging your fingers into some abandoned foodstuff lurking down there. Ecch.

I once put my hand on the brim of a 1/4-full cup of warm strawberry yogurt, sitting far back in a shelf under a blown light. Beside it was an empty bottle of cranberry juice and some napkins that had been employed in the obviously slightly messy consumption of the yogurt. I don't believe I ever found the spoon.

Miraculously, no books seemed to have become involved.

I guess the plastic katana is the most exciting thing I've ever brought into the library - and that on Halloween, and late enough in the evening that everyone was already pretty jaded.

Eeeeyuch!

At my previous job, I helped sort through a bunch of boxes of books that someone's family donated to the architecture library when he died. They'd obviously been kept in the garage or attic and had mold and water damage and dead bugs in them. And were mostly useless anyway - multiple copies of building codes from 1952 and the like. And then we had to deal with random college employees coming into the library and seeing how much we were throwing away and saying "But somebody might find that useful!" OK, sure, fine, *you* keep this out-of-dat nasty copy of the 1952 building codes in *your* house on the off chance that someone might want it one day. It ain't going into our library!

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