The cranky librarian at the Hyde Park BPL branch

Mike Ball refused to take no for an answer when the Cranky Librarian refused to let him into the library's new Hyde Park history room:

... The librarian was firm that the room was closed, inaccessible, off limits. That made no sense and I stood my ground. Eyelash to eyelash, she blinked first. After repeating that it was closed, locked and inaccessible, she finally said that the head librarian might grant me access. ...

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The bureaucratic BPL

A cranky BPLer librarian made a great deal of being on the faculty at Simmons College School of Library and Information Studies but couldn't resolve customers services concerns for BPLusers. The bureaucratic BPL needs to be looked at more critically.

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