oh also quick update: your image of the library as a "place of quiet repose" lead by a nice white lady with her hair in a bun who keeps it all quiet and does shushing is, uh, racist and helps let racism in libraries persist and harms our BIPOC colleagues. So like. Stop.

@misskubelik We have some designated quiet spaces for those who need quiet. However, the rest of the library is definitely not silent.

@k8southern This is the other part I love. YOU KNOW WE HAVE QUIET AREAS IT'S JUST YOU CAN'T EXPECT THE WHOLE BUILDING TO BE THAT WAY

@misskubelik And many of them have met you and I. Why does this persist?

@misskubelik I've been shushed by so many library *users*....

@misskubelik I ❤ loud (and cursing) librarians!

@misskubelik I do keep a cardigan in the office in case it gets chilly lol

@misskubelik FACTS! I’m probably one of the loudest people in my building 🤣

@misskubelik Here's a pic of two of my favorite local (and very vocal) librarians.

@misskubelik I regularly use the phrase “I’m no shush Librarian.” Often in intro/orientation for classes;often as a correction for staff,students,parents accidentally thinking pin drop silence is some kind of real rule. My Storytime sessions are wild. I regularly use hammers w/ kids.

@misskubelik @librariansti this is FACTUAL

@misskubelik My coworker was once left a note by a patron... "Someone should tell him to use his library voice". It now hangs above his desk 😈

@misskubelik @MelanieCDuncan As a voice that's been heard clearly slightly over a mile away...HA-HA-HA-HA!

@misskubelik One of my favorite librarian moments was when I attended a publishing dinner during an ALA conference and watched librarians jump onto a restaurant table and dance.

@misskubelik We also never share what people check out, ask for, or refer to. I hate that trope, so much more than shushing or buns or glasses or primness. I hate racism more, but I hate invading intellectual freedom & destroying privacy a LOT.

@misskubelik I often get shushed.

@misskubelik @KathieMacIsaac I had a little huddle of teachers in the library discussing a mutual student's progress and they were not being at all quiet. One of them said, "Oh gosh, we shouldn't be so loud in the library," and I told her, "this is not a whisper sort of library."

@misskubelik The best is patrons who come in almost on tiptoe, and then whisper to me. I always have to ask them to speak up. Once there was a family & parents were constantly shushing their kids who already were whispering. I was close to shouting "stop the shushing!" It was so annoying

@misskubelik "Yes!" roared the animated, awesome, lively and loud librarian named Lori!