BiblioQueria 21

I haven't done BiblioQueria for quite a while, so now's as good a time as any! And since it's so damn hot outside (I hate Summer – hate it. Were it not for my beloved garden, I'd be praying for snow), I thought it only fitting that I write a rather heated post.

Quite the image, huh? It got me thinking about my days as a library technician, when I first met my hubby. When we officially began dating, we were still working together for TPL. We worked in the Technical Services department, which meant that we didn't service the public, instead those working at that branch concerned themselves with receiving and cataloguing books, and dealing with a lot of administrative stuff. The building we worked in was the original old branch for the former City of York Public Library. It was a sweet old musty dusty building, which has since become a daycare centre after Toronto's amalgamation. Down in the basement of this building was the kitchen and the break room, as well as a section where we stored all of our Talking Books. Oy, if those books really could talk, they'd have  few things to say. I confess that on more than a few occasions, the hubby and I did partake in some quick canoodling down there, ok? But nothing really naughty. Certainly nothing worse than what you see in that poster. I dunno. There was something rather romantic about furtively kissing in a building devoted to books and higher learning. Brings a whole new meaning to the phrase Book Lust, huh?

So my question to you is...
What's the most interesting thing you've ever done in a library?

Comments

[Beth]

Nothing as naughty as you - just made eye contact night after night with a cute guy (while supposedly studying) until finally a "hello" and dating became the next logical steps.
Great place to meet guys!

[Carmi]

I was always afraid of being shushed. But that poster makes me wonder if perhaps I should consider having a date with my wife among the stacks. Gets my mind racing...

[Melanie]

I'm not sure I should answer this. I lived in the basement of a library for a number of years. If that counts, that's all I'm saying!

[Meghan]

I haven't done anything naughty - but having worked in a library... a university library... for about 4 years now, I've seen some pretty racy things.

And by pretty racy, I mean pre-, mid-, and post-coital actions.

While seeing such things used to embarrass/scare the heck out of me, now I just find it hilarious. There's nothing more hysterical then catching one of your old TAs making creative use of the "education" section of the stacks.

[Litlove]

What a great story and a great question. If only I had something interesting to contribute! Unfortunately my university library is so big and dark and spooky (particularly up on the 6th floor) that I'm more afraid of being murdered in it than hopeful of some romance!

[ami]

My first real kiss / make-out session was in the reference stacks at my hometown public library. It was with the paperboy who delivered the weekend papers on Saturday mornings...
The head librarian saw us (although we didn't know it) and she called our mothers. (The joys of growing up in a small town.) Ratted out by a librarian - and after all the shelving I did for that woman!
Sheesh.

[Patricia]

I LOVE IT!!! You go girl! You go with your bad biblio-self!!

[R J Keefe]

That's a library?

The most interesting thing that I ever did in a library was to read Law French in the late Seventeenth Century Sergeant Maynard edition of the Year Books, medieval English pleadings. The texts were printed in a kind of fraktur, loaded with abbreviations, and not entirely reliable.

[sassymonkey]

I am declining to answer that question on the grounds that I may incriminate myself. ;)

[Kerry]

How fun! I am pleased to report that my sordid past includes snogging in the stacks, but not as often as I would have liked. More frequently my illicit activities in the depths of the library when I worked as a student included hiding in the PR9199 section reading CanLit when I was supposed to have been shelving. Bliss.

[Leanne]

Mmm. I wish I could say something else, but the only thing I can think of was hiding beind the stacks to change my daughters diaper! No change tables in the bathrooms at our local library!

Lol

[Patricia]

I like that answer, Leanne!

[ragdoll]

Oh, I wish I had something raunchy to contribute. Do things that got started in libraries count? I spent all of my time at the end of one term at uni writing out quotes from shakespeare and other books I was studying for my fellow at the time. It took me weeks. WEEKS of crawling around through dusty books for that perfect quotation to describe what he meant to me.

And then he got so mad at me by the end of the summer that he had a bonfire and burned it.

If that's ain't university love I don't know what is...

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