We went to the library yesterday to pick up the reserves that were waiting for me. While I grabbed those, TW went over to the new arrivals section. The FICTION new arrivals, obviously. I joined her and was ready to go when I saw a man walk around to where the non-fiction new arrivals USED TO BE. He scratched his head and looked around and muttered to himself.
I chuckled.
Then, he asked a librarian where the non-fiction new arrivals were — I mouthed what she said, as she said it, “Upstairs with the rest of the non-fiction.” I chuckled some more. Not exactly happy that someone else was as annoyed by this as I am but … yea, glad it’s not just me and TW and some of the librarians who think this was stupid.
As I’m chuckling and muttering about this to myself, I hear the librarian call him to the research desk and tell him to fill out a survey… because they are taking a survey about this issue.
What?! A survey? Let me in on that. (And how come they blogged about moving the books but didn’t blog about taking a survey to find out how folks felt about the move? Whatevs.)
I rushed over and asked if I could fill out the survey too. I chatted with the guy and that librarian about how much I hated the nonfiction books being up there. The librarian nodded and said “A lot of people agree with you. That’s why we’re doing the survey.”
I ran back to TW and told her about the survey and made her go take it, too.
I was all giddy about this.
A SURVEY! They are taking a SURVEY! Maybe we’ll get our non-fiction new arrivals back downstairs where they belong. But even if they don’t — at least they’re doing the right thing and asking library patrons how they feel about this. That’s a step in the right direction.