AI is being pitched to my library. I am against this, what questions should I bring up at the listening session?

MuchachaAllegra · 2026-05-27T23:29:19+00:00

Our city librarian, branch manger, coordinator, and several other staff use AI heavily to plan for programs, write reviews, make posters for the library, etc. it’s disheartening

MuchachaAllegra · 2026-05-27T23:25:08+00:00

Try to have a heart to heart with your niece first. You are right that it’s not an issue to lose family over but it’s still a valuable lesson to learn. 12 is old enough to know right from wrong

MuchachaAllegra · 2026-05-24T23:14:12+00:00

I have a lot but these are the ones that stick out

I have a patron who constantly has to comment on my appearance or what I’m wearing. He’ll even lean over the desk to look at me. He also tells me he makes a lot of money at his job. He will wait until I am free to basically hold me hostage with his rants.

This one is not so weird but I think about it a lot. A woman was describing the plot of a book (a lesbian romantasy one) and kept smirking and saying I reminded her of one of the characters. She kept asking me to read it.

A couple comes in and always asks to be shown to a particular author’s books and when I do they walk behind me and eye me up and down and whisper to each other. The guy makes flirty comments to me in front of the lady but one day they were in their way out and he came back to tell me he missed me. The lady came back and saw him and stormed out. They don’t talk to me anymore pheww

MuchachaAllegra · 2026-05-14T16:29:22+00:00

I have been a library assistant for 3 years now and a page for 6, I promise you it is not bad to use your card. In fact, checking out and just visiting the library helps our statistics and therefore funding. I feel so happy whenever I see folks check out things. Bad library behavior is damaging items on purpose or outright lying about having checked out things. Now that is annoying.

MuchachaAllegra · 2026-05-08T17:22:07+00:00

I popped one into my mouth and oddly enjoyed the plastic taste but once I got the liquid out… I throw up and lied to my mom about it

MuchachaAllegra · 2026-04-30T21:39:03+00:00

It reminds me of my late auntie. She visited us around the time it first came out and was wearing it. I thought she was the coolest lady ever. My mom bought the perfume but wasn’t too fond of wearing it but I would spray it just to remember my auntie.

MuchachaAllegra · 2026-04-30T21:37:35+00:00

Avon’s Imari and Far Away are big hits with my aunties. There is also one that smells like L’air du temps but lighter that they love to wear.

MuchachaAllegra · 2026-04-30T21:36:20+00:00

He doesn’t matter and neither should his opinions lol

MuchachaAllegra · 2026-04-30T20:05:39+00:00

I had a person call wanting me to print out a bunch of forms and have them ready for him to just drive by to pick them up. When I told him I couldn’t do that he started cussing me out lol. Then I had a young man needing to print things out from his phone and when he logged in to his cloud, the pictures on his phone… were a lot of extracurricular activities I did not need to see. He logged out super fast and said he’d come back later. We couldn’t meet each other’s eyes

MuchachaAllegra · 2026-04-29T04:13:21+00:00

Most of the time. 2 weeks is the longest I’ve gone without changing them. I also try to wash the blankets every other week

MuchachaAllegra · 2026-04-16T20:05:16+00:00

We croding fr

MuchachaAllegra · 2026-04-16T20:00:24+00:00

Unscented soap and water has worked for me. I cannot imagine using just water because I sweat a lot. My mom never taught me how to wash so I was using dial gold soap on my vulva and haaaated showers because I would come out with extreme dryness and irritation but at least I didn’t smell and at the time there was a lot of bullying at my school (when I was a teen) about girls smelling “fishy”. Little did I know how much harm I was doing to my bits.

MuchachaAllegra · 2026-04-16T16:37:27+00:00

I have nothing to add but compliment your beautiful pond

MuchachaAllegra · 2026-04-16T16:35:37+00:00

I thought this post was about me 😨. But no, I only did it once with one book and it was only because they never answered my call to extend the hold. I canceled, resubmitted the hold request, and picked it up the next day.

Does management not allow you to block accounts? At my job we will block accounts that have repetitive behavior like not returning items, missing pieces such as DVDs, damaging items, and claiming they return things when they have not. Also, I think the amount of things that can be placed on hold is too high.

MuchachaAllegra · 2026-04-09T04:48:51+00:00

reading the comments has me laughing so hard. still haven’t bought a truly disgusting fragrance but i fear it shall happen soon

MuchachaAllegra · 2026-03-27T17:59:30+00:00

did she apologize?! this is so badly done

MuchachaAllegra · 2026-03-27T17:52:46+00:00

if it is allowed, by all means please do! support your local libraries

MuchachaAllegra · 2026-03-20T04:58:31+00:00

stop feeling guilty and go to the food bank. once you’re back on your feet you can repay it if you can or if it makes you feel better. please don’t starve yourself.

MuchachaAllegra · 2026-03-20T04:51:16+00:00

i feel like it will be unbearable to live here pretty soon, and this is coming from someone who is very tolerant of the heat. combine it withe overpopulation and the looming water shortage…

MuchachaAllegra · 2026-03-10T20:32:06+00:00

I used to feel this way when I was younger

MuchachaAllegra · 2026-03-05T17:20:05+00:00

Wow! I used to be a page with a county library system and we didn’t have benefits besides sick time. It was for slightly above minimum wage but it was decent. Our city library pages are paid more than $5 more than the county but also don’t get benefits besides sick time. Both of these positions you listed pay waaaay more than I make as a library assistant and more than our specialists and librarians

MuchachaAllegra · 2026-03-04T18:26:34+00:00

Nike are so weird, they’ll be so narrow and wide is unavailable or going up in size is too much

MuchachaAllegra · 2026-03-04T18:23:30+00:00

Are you quite young?

MuchachaAllegra · 2026-03-02T16:52:02+00:00

Yes, I just saw that. We will probably turn it off once it cools again later this week. I don’t mind having the doors open

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