Comments on: Learning to Have FUN in the Library

By: needs a 'nym

needs a 'nym — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 16:18:41 +0000

Anybody else read Ann Watson’s comment and think of “A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again”?

By: hotsweatylibrarian

hotsweatylibrarian — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:16:52 +0000

These librarians know how to have fun.

By: Ann Watson

Ann Watson — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 21:40:15 +0000

I sure hope you changed your mind and attended the CLS 2010 Conference Program because it was FUN! and we all came away with some very practical and informative and cheap ways to enhance employees performance by taking all the drudgery out of the library work – as you have described it. Life is short and the time we spent working eats up most of our life….so why not be positive and along the way, help create a positive atmosphere for your colleagues? And try to look at the glass half full, instead of half empty! You might even find you have FUN along the way!

Ann Watson
CLS 2010 Conference Program Planning Chair

By: Soren Faust

Soren Faust — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:03:33 +0000

Btw, just to take away the opportunity of a grammatical correction I recognize that I wrote you’re instead of your.

By: Soren Faust

Soren Faust — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 13:59:43 +0000

@reallibrarian

sounds like sour grapes, to me. You’re just pissed off b/c you’re budget cut liberry thinks you’re not worth the expense. Meanwhile, i’m sitting here nursing a martini hangover getting ready for another debached night in our nations capital. Have fun cleaning up the restrooms at your liberry!

By: Real Librarian

Real Librarian — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 13:38:26 +0000

You know when the fun hits?

When all the deadwood is at ALA and the people who do the work show up and do their job without a bunch of useless interruptions.

Suck down those martinis. You deserve them.

By: Anne

Anne — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:29:12 +0000

Don’t forget about Think Geek’s annoy-a-tron.

http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/b278/

By: I Like Books

I Like Books — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 19:11:47 +0000

Fun in the work place means the boss shows the Fish video, and the next day tells you to stop making so much noise.

By: NotMarianTheLibrarian

NotMarianTheLibrarian — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 15:47:51 +0000

What management thinks is fun is usually beyond gruesome. Potlucks, meetings, and “staff development” days lead the pack. Ugh! Nothing fun there.

Fun is employees who like one another going out for a long lunch without their drippy droopy co-workers or a boss who keeps checking the time. But then we get called on the carpet for being clique-y. Why would we want to have lunch with the “colleagues” who don’t pull their weight, are dumb as dirt, or unkind to our students?

By: Mr. Kat

Mr. Kat — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 15:35:16 +0000

While all of you are at the conference, the real world will be watching for more reports from grand juries like the one in Santa Cruz. Their grand wisdom includes offering suggestions like reducing the employee payload by 20% and relying on volunteers to pick up the slack.

So when you get back, you might be able to actually test out having fun at the library because you’ll be an unemployed patron instead of an employed librarian.