Everyone Must Shelve!

Because it is December, I've spent most of this evening digging around on the internet, looking for cool t-shirts to buy my friends and coworkers. Because we are always bored at work and have nothing better to do, there's a never ending competition to see who can buy the most awesome shirts.

It is hard to find library-themed shirts that aren't made exclusively for librarians, but there are a few. My favourites are below.


I particularly like this one, as there is nothing more like a crowd of angry LAs than a crowd of angry Communists. And hell, we're union, so to most people it's pretty much the same thing anyway.

General page of library assistant shirts and buttons.


That's How I Roll

Circ & Reference

Library Assistant

Why Are Library Assistants Called Paraprofessionals? (Ah, the age old question. Unless you live in my city, where we're actually called subprofessionals. I feel so respected!)

First post

A little background: I've worked in three different library systems in the past decade, two public libraries and one academic. I've worked in tech services, PR, and now I'm a general library clerical, a library assistant. I often hate my job, and the times I don't are when I'm not actually doing it well.

I used to care. Now I don't. That's how it goes. The posts here will be almost entirely me bitching about work. I hope it will be cathartic. Mostly I want a log, to remind myself exactly how bad it was once I quit. I spend too much time repressing right now.