Greg Hlil's Weekly Column

Greg Hill is the Director of the Noel Wien Library in Fairbanks Alaska. (The link is to an archive of his weekly columns.

Don’t believe the myth that librarians sit quietly reading all day. (Fairbanks News Miner, 3/6/2011)

Excerpt:    The most popular, as in frequent, myth was that working in a public library is stress-free with librarians quietly reading whatever they want in quiet repose. I read it yesterday after dealing nearly simultaneously with a domestic dispute at a computer workstation, a mysteriously leaking cabinet and a passerby’s report that “a chimney on the library roof just exploded,” preceded by urinals overflowing.