Our Boston Public Libraries should greet all library visitors verbally in a more open manner, including our library's regulars. Greeting of BPLers is a gesture often overlooked or it's done in a removed formal manner creating a nonverbal environment of withdrawn BPLusers and withdrawn BPLers.
Staff development programming on a more regular continuing basis is needed for better morale.
BPLers can be initially warm and welcoming then turn away not resuming their initial good will. Other BPLers can be impersonal to the extreme, burned out, jaded.
Because a) It doesn't know that the West Roxbury BPL branch has some very warm and welcoming employees and b) The issue at hand has absolutely nothing to do with any perverse treatment your algorithm might have received at the hands of library personnel in its alpha versions.
I'm quite happy with the service I get at the BPL. And yes, mostly I use the Copley branch.
I expect staff to be pleasant and efficient when I approach them. I'm at the library to accomplish something and don't generally need to feel fawned over to consider my outing a success.
There are some bad apples-ok I can only think of one (I'm looking at you cranky lady in the av dept who is surrounded by the sweetest most helpful staff in the world). But the rest are pleasant, patient and helpful.
Maybe it's not BPL patrons in general, it's you. You seem somewhat cranky and single-minded.
First I'm going ta re-shelve the Principia Mathematica. Just finished repairin' the damage to it from the extreme cold on Benzene V! http://www.jtillustration.com/rex/p2.html
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something bad happened at this guys library too
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFPELCzFasw
Greeting Boston Public Library visitors.
Our Boston Public Libraries should greet all library visitors verbally in a more open manner, including our library's regulars. Greeting of BPLers is a gesture often overlooked or it's done in a removed formal manner creating a nonverbal environment of withdrawn BPLusers and withdrawn BPLers.
Staff development programming on a more regular continuing basis is needed for better morale.
BPLers can be initially warm and welcoming then turn away not resuming their initial good will. Other BPLers can be impersonal to the extreme, burned out, jaded.
Dear MIT: Your AI algorithm really needs some work
Because a) It doesn't know that the West Roxbury BPL branch has some very warm and welcoming employees and b) The issue at hand has absolutely nothing to do with any perverse treatment your algorithm might have received at the hands of library personnel in its alpha versions.
You need to change branches
I'm quite happy with the service I get at the BPL. And yes, mostly I use the Copley branch.
I expect staff to be pleasant and efficient when I approach them. I'm at the library to accomplish something and don't generally need to feel fawned over to consider my outing a success.
There are some bad apples-ok I can only think of one (I'm looking at you cranky lady in the av dept who is surrounded by the sweetest most helpful staff in the world). But the rest are pleasant, patient and helpful.
Maybe it's not BPL patrons in general, it's you. You seem somewhat cranky and single-minded.
Audiovisual shelf guide on the web needed.
For BPLusers browsing the shelves the Audiovisual Department needs a graphical shelf guide on their weblink at http://bpl.org/central/audiovisual.htm
somewhat cranky?
Let's go all nouny and just call him a crank.
If I worked at the BPL, I'd feel like hiding when I saw him coming too.
Take A Tour Of The Library
Click on...
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at
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In all seriousness, Don
Enough already. Please exercise some self-restraint.
Synonyms Needed
What term could be used instead of "library" to foil The Zakbot?
House of Books
Media Center
Others?
bibliothèque
bibliothèque
"The Boston Public Yrarbil"
"The Printy Place"
"NOT The Internet"
"That Joint Just Above Copley Station"
Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com
The not-yet-cracked building
across from the Old South Church.
The Not-Yet-Cracked Building And ...
The Many Mini-Buildings Across the City, One of Which Has a Dome.
the smell of pee
internet cafe
First I'm going ta re-shelve the Principia Mathematica.
First I'm going ta re-shelve the Principia Mathematica. Just finished repairin' the damage to it from the extreme cold on Benzene V!
http://www.jtillustration.com/rex/p2.html
Repairin'?
Data, is that you? Or did you just watch the ST:TNG episode where Data tries so hard to use contractions?
Reference Desk
Erik The Librarian: Is Life Worth Living
Season 1 : Ep. 1 (02:09)
Erik The Librarian: What is Death
Season 1 : Ep. 2 (01:58)
http://www.hulu.com/videos/search?query=%22erik+the+librarian%22
Hey, Zak, lookie here
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Card catalogs. Bar codes. Shelving.
Shouldn't it be "Centre," seeing how it's West Roxbury and all?
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