question

[maevele]

how obnoxious would a non screaming 2 yr old have to be before it would be appropriate for a librarian to come give them a talking to, even as their mom is right there hushing them? Not in the kid's room admittedly, but in the movie section? Yelling? speaking at a normal volume instead of whispering? maybe a tad louder?

Comments

[ethora.livejournal.com]

I'd let the parent's hushing work first. Then, if the kid is out of the parent's control and is disturbing people by yelling or talking really loud for longer than a couple of minutes, then I as a librarian would say something.

I think that it could actually be a good experience for a child to be hushed by a librarian. Kids often learn more quickly from a non-parent adult in the community.

[maevele.livejournal.com]

she didn't just shush her, she got in her space and lectured her for about a solid minute.

[ethora.livejournal.com]

What an unnecessary shame. Way to teach a kid to love the library. :(

[maevele.livejournal.com]

that's my point. I want my kid to think she's welcome at the library, even if she doesn't quite get the quiet thing yet.

[stoneself.livejournal.com]

actually many libraries are moving away from being quiet zones.

[lady-alyria.livejournal.com]

I could see that if they have reading rooms. If not, that would kinda suck. I used to love ditching class and going to the library to read all day. Wow...I'm such a dork.

[likeawoman.livejournal.com]

honestly, I think that'd be nice. I mean, big research libraries, sure, special reading rooms, sure, but the public library shouldn't need to be silent as the grave. it's a living community space and I think it'd be nice to treat it as such.

[lady-alyria.livejournal.com]

It really depends on the mood of the librarian. If she's not in a good one, probably wouldn't take much noise at all.

[shana-etel.livejournal.com]

That is seriously over the top. If that happened when I was at the library with the kids I would have lost my shit. Considering the kind of dervish Sylvia is I feel lucky now that we haven't been chastised on our library excursions.

[maevele.livejournal.com]

I kinda did lose my shit. We left, ande while i was checking out i apologized to the other librarian for my rowdy kids. she said they were fine, and i said that the other librarian had found them disruptive enough to come scold my kid, so we'd probably just go to a different branch from now on. and the nice librarian seemed sorry, and I was practically in tears trying to keep my kids from being obnoxious enough for the bitchy one to say something else about them. Then I came home all crying and shit, and Z asked me what was wrong, and he got all pissed off and called the library, talked to the woman who spoke to moj, who totally lied to him!!!! and got her supervisors name and wants to call and get her in trouble.

Seriously, if it had been yur basic library shushing, it'd have been cool, but the woman was really rude and went on and on at my kid instead of talking to me.

[shana-etel.livejournal.com]

Both as a person who works in customer service and a potential future librarian (go go gadget grad school) I am pretty upset for you. That is really uncalled for and I fully endorse both going to a different branch and calling the lady on her shitty interpersonal skills.

[haddayr.livejournal.com]

Screaming. And I'd come over and ask the mom if she needed help.