Enough already

[altivo]

The summer reading farce is getting to me and it's only half over. I simply do not believe that all this candy and circuses does that much to convince kids to grow up into readers.

It does, however, frazzle the overworked library staff until they growl like bears and snap like alligators. It reduces the orderly arrangement of 40,000 books to chaos. And it creates conditions that drive adult users out of the library in despair. The noise and hyperactive behaviors are inescapable.

Thank the goddess it's the weekend. I wish this one were three days long as well.

Comments

[moonhare]

I want this to end! ;o)

Seriously, we're overwhelmed with undisciplined kids, and adults. Friday we had about 450 patrons in 6 hours which is almost twice our usual Friday.

[altivo]

Same here. Plus short handed due to budget cuts. The wild monkeys are really hard to take and impossible to tame when their parents are standing right there and refusing to do anything.