Boston Police report at least three patrons of the BPL West Roxbury branch have had purses snatched in recent days:
All three reports state that the individuals were sitting at a table in the facility with their bags at their feet.
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something bad happened at this guys library too
By bostnkid
Mon, 12/08/2008 - 12:56pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFPELCzFasw
Greeting Boston Public Library visitors.
By theszak
Mon, 12/08/2008 - 1:13pm
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of BPLers is a gesture often overlooked or it's done in a removed formal manner creating a nonverbal environment of withdrawn BPLusers and withdrawn BPLers.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
By adamg
Mon, 12/08/2008 - 1:17pm
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
By KellyJMF
Mon, 12/08/2008 - 1:31pm
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.
By theszak
Mon, 12/08/2008 - 1:40pm
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?
By Gareth
Mon, 12/08/2008 - 1:52pm
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
By theszak
Mon, 12/08/2008 - 1:35pm
Click on...
Take A Tour Of The Library
at
http://www.tnt.tv/movies/librarian/
In all seriousness, Don
By adamg
Mon, 12/08/2008 - 1:42pm
Enough already. Please exercise some self-restraint.
Synonyms Needed
By SwirlyGrrl
Mon, 12/08/2008 - 1:49pm
What term could be used instead of "library" to foil The Zakbot?
House of Books
Media Center
Others?
bibliothèque
By Ron Newman
Mon, 12/08/2008 - 1:58pm
bibliothèque
"The Boston Public Yrarbil"
By Suldog
Mon, 12/08/2008 - 2:59pm
"The Printy Place"
"NOT The Internet"
"That Joint Just Above Copley Station"
Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com
The not-yet-cracked building
By Ron Newman
Mon, 12/08/2008 - 3:00pm
across from the Old South Church.
The Not-Yet-Cracked Building And ...
By adamg
Mon, 12/08/2008 - 3:05pm
The Many Mini-Buildings Across the City, One of Which Has a Dome.
the smell of pee
By bostnkid
Mon, 12/08/2008 - 8:30pm
internet cafe
First I'm going ta re-shelve the Principia Mathematica.
By theszak
Mon, 12/08/2008 - 2:03pm
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'?
By adamg
Mon, 12/08/2008 - 2:08pm
Data, is that you? Or did you just watch the ST:TNG episode where Data tries so hard to use contractions?
Reference Desk
By theszak
Mon, 12/08/2008 - 2:40pm
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+th...
Hey, Zak, lookie here
By adamg
Mon, 12/08/2008 - 2:55pm
This is a line:
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Any more posts from you underneath this line (or anywhere else in the thread) that don't have anything to do with purse snatchings at the West Roxbury Non-Profit Book Recycling Center will just be deleted.
Card catalogs. Bar codes. Shelving.
By eeka
Mon, 12/08/2008 - 8:57pm
Shouldn't it be "Centre," seeing how it's West Roxbury and all?
http://1smootshort.blogspot.com