Waferbaby interviews the Rogue Librarian.

Enjoy this Desk Set inspired reference librarian job description. I would take the job if I could have Hepburn’s stylist and costumer.

Pete is eleven, but he looks like he is six or seven. He lives in the one bedroom next door with three of his four sisters, his mother, his grandmother and a little dog that they keep chained to the radiator.

When I come home after work, he is on the stoop. He holds the door for me, a perfect gentleman, and asks me how my day was.

The stoop is his.

When I go out for milk at night, he is still out there. He moves from step to step, observing everything, the alpha male of the block. His perfected swagger lends him the air of a man ten or twenty years his senior.

In the winter, he throws snowballs at my window.

Pixie takes us from Hardy Boys to pulp fiction in an account of her first library.

Thanks to Stasia for Ahhhh public service!

8:55 ìAttention passengers, we are experiencing a delay due to a sick customer at West 4th Street. Medical assistance is on the way.î
9:45 Consultants will be here in 15 minutes.
10:55 Consultants are here and they are asking hard questions. Had not been thinking this hard when I wrote the FRP.
11:20 Consultants are leaving but want to come back at 2:00. They want to ask more hard questions.
11:30 Coffee.
11:40 Answer email. Answer email. Answer email.
1:15 Answer email. Shit! The consultants will be here in 45 minutes. Eat now. Answer email.
1:45 Eat five bites.
2:00 Meet with consultants. More hard questions.
3:15 Put consultants on elevator. Eat more. Answer email. Answer email.
4:30 Leave for Dentist.
4:45 ìAttention customers, the dispatcher is taking this bus out of service.î
5:05 Get to dentist. Dentist is cute. Dentist is charming. Dentist tells me I am a good brusher. I know it but delight in the praise.

Noelle helps us kick off Library Week with Back in the USSR.

Please help the Rogue Librarian have a happy LW by making sure she sees at least one library story every day. Submit a story here.

The latest library story is an account of young army wife’s literary oasis on the dusty plains. Thanks, Mom!

My Internet host is making me very unhappy; two server errors are happening again and again. They do not return my email messages or my phone calls. Don’t you want to know who the host is? I am going to give them one more chance to fix it and then I’ll dedicate a week’s worth of logs to the topic while I search for a new provider.

Thanks to Jeffrey Zeldman and A List Apart, all of my worrying about filtering earlier this year has turned into Down By Law. My article looks at a new US law that will require some public libraries and schools to employ ìtechnological protection measures.î I fear that this legislation, designed keep library users from looking at smut, will not do what it is supposed to do but will force libraries to censor Internet access. This will hurt the poorest of the poor.

I never want to work without good editors like Jeffrey and Erin again.

It looks like my Internet host has fixed the problem. The site is clipping along now. Of course, it is early and only people to the east of my time zone would be hitting the server now. I remain skeptical but hopeful and will refrain from talking trash about the provider just yet.