Where's Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox When You Need Them on Library Security Detail?

Postcard from Retiring Guy's collection

 
Below:  That's my dad and me at Paul's right leg.  (Poorly framed photo taken by my cousin Roger in July 1951.   From the Nelson Family archives.)

CITY COUNCIL: ‘Wave’ of unruly patrons disrupts library, manager says. (Bemidji Pioneer, 8/4/2014)

Feeling their oats at the Bemidji Public Library.  The incidents center around patrons smoking on library property, refusing to turn down music and not taking cell phone calls to study rooms rather than the main atrium, he said. 

Although the incidents constitute a very small percentage of overall library use, the “aggressiveness, the language, the vehemence” of the patrons was unusually inappropriate, Ericsson said.