PLEASE STOP bringing your coffee into the 5th floor Special Collections room! The sign is by the door, where you all pause to read if you are allowed to come in to study. It tells you the hours we are open, and then below states, “No food, No drinks, No cell phones. Quiet study.” So why do you all waltz in with your vanilla bean lattes thinking it’s okay? The reason we ask this is because we have RARE AND SPECIAL BOOKS. Liquids and mice will destroy these precious, old, IRREPLACEABLE (c.1600-1700) books—not to mention the records, CDs and music equipment. If you want to drink or eat, step outside. Did you ever consider that there are rules for a reason? —Book-Lover-Becoming-Student-Hater
This article appears in Nov 29 – Dec 5, 2012.
the idiots would have to cut off the offending hand, since the bloody cups seem to be glued in place. people walk everywhere with a coffee cup in hand. wtf? in shops, at house for sale open houses, on the bus, spilling, leaking, dripping. ready to go flying at a lurch &
drenching everyone else.
OP, nothing lasts forever, they should scan it all to digital format, then kick out the coffee haters with the coffee drinkers.
You would think that by the time they reach that age, and level in school they can READ. This happens all the time where I work. “No food or drink” signs posted, and you walk in and the room looks like the snack room in the daycare. No respect, I tell ya.
The world is but one giant Rodney Dangerfield.
I always thought those signs were just suggestions, like the no smoking ones at bus stops. Oh well, I still won’t listen to them.
Someone obviously believes its better to allow people to handle & endanger these old works as opposed to making digital copies, that would then be avaiable to coffee drinkers without fear of harming the originals !
well why didn’t anyone think of that sooner. of course! a digital copy saves the day. then let some kindergarten kiddies come in and fingerpaint the one-of-a-kind books and maps. no matter, there’s a digital copy!
boy, librarians and antiquarians must have the iq of a house plant not to think of making a friggin copy.
Stop buying those fucking mice vanilla bean lattes! They like the chocolate cinnamon ones!
you mean to say there are books that old at the killiam library? i thought all they ha were ancient textbooks and shit. goddamn it, the mice won’t even touch that shit, unless you slather them with peanut butter.
Good Dog Molly, you have out done yourself today with your dribbling. There are digital copies, thats not the point. Its the 5th floor Special Collections room. Its not the public library or the childrens section, its even called the SPECIAL COLLECTION ROOM!!!!! For those interested in any form of history, a digital copy cannot compare to the original document. I now apoligize for my original sarcastic post, it seems to have pointed a few in the wrong direction.
Good Dog Molly you must have the IQ of a house plant to not realize what a special collection room entails.
FS – about GDM – http://i.chzbgr.com/completestore/2012/1/1…
GDM – To avoid confusion, I use an “Irony Allert”, when I post stuff like that.
hey hugo…it was so thickly spread with the irony spatula i didn’t think it necessary, but…
meh. i think he was doing an ‘under the bridge’ fishing expedition on that one. no one could have missed it, no one.
tolerant little wretch, ain’t i?
The bomb drops today!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1748227/
My kinda collection.
have you seen this one? it takes a lot to make this old broad spntaneously levitate from the recliner couch.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2040560/
“Liquids and mice will destroy these precious, old, IRREPLACEABLE (c.1600-1700) books”
Good God! It’s one thing not to be able to bring my Vanilla Bean Latte to that room but I can’t bring my mice either!! This is too much!! Bibliophilic Nazis!
what about donairs? can we bring donairs?
i don’t like all the mouse bashing going on around here. i have a family of them in the shed each winter. they must have a summer home, maybe in lockport, because they disappear in spring. wee shiverin’ beasties.
hey, i checked out a new restaurant last monday and saw a tiny mouse dash across the floor. the owner ensured i will be back (apart from the great food) by telling another table that he just will not kill mice anymore. and no, i am not going to name the restaurant. he says they have a’service’ that comes in, they have to. but he, personally will not hunt it down and kill it.
I love Sweet Salty Balls…can I bring those sweet salty balls?
Not in public Boru.
Troodon…..Lol…Boru note to self.. no “Sweet Salty Balls” in public.lol
Chef from the cartoon South Park made and sang about his Chocolatey Sweet Salty Balls.
Put em in your mouth and suck ’em.
I would suggest having someone at the entrance to the Special Collections Room (hopefully it’s glassed off like the rest of that dungeon is these days) posted specifically to enforce the “No Food, No Drinks” rule. Hmm…maybe a few bans on certain Special Little Snowflakes? Or…here’s a thought…BANNING FOOD AND DRINK FROM THE ENTIRE LIBRARY! What franchise do they have posted outside the entrance? Second Cup? Starbucks? Leave it to Dal to make a few shekels on a franchise while risking the loss of their oldest and most priceless books while the SETs quaff their venti mocha lattes with Madagascar cinnamon among the stacks. You wouldn’t see this shit going down on Pill Hill in my day – the penguins would be all over you in a heartbeat if they smelled so much as a Timbit on you walking into EMF.
you know guys, that the worst possible thing that you can do to a very old book is? you handle the fucking thiings in your bare hands. oils and shit come out of your skin pores and do more damage than any other thing, except maybe fire and water.
haven’t you ever watched the antigues roadshow, and seen then with cotton gloves handling the old books and stuff. that is the reason they do it. i used to have 1,000’s of comic books yeas back, and if you ever touched one with your bare fingers, then you bought it.
about 25 years ago, i sold all them off to a guy in toronto, and got a big pile of cash, because just about everyone was pristine. even the old superman, batman, aquaman ones. and the ones that buddy really got a hard on for, were the ones called” commandi (commmand d). it was a series that was set after the last nuclear war on earth, and he was just a boy when it broke out. ivan will know of which comic series i speak.
there were others that had him drooling too, but not as much. i got 10,000 bucks for the whole shot. wish the fuck i would have kept all my action comics tho, they’re worth a small fortune today, in really good shape. start digging people, you might have a old comic goldmine someplacce in your homes. action comics #1 is going for something like a hundred plus grand now in good to mint condition.