Okay, so we run a restaurant here sometimes, three days this week as a matter of fact. It smells like a restaurant, looks like a restaurant, a buffet, that is, with really long lines of people chatting excitedly. At least we make people happy as we serve lunch to lots and lots of parents of new students at Augie. I say “we” but it’s not library staff doing the serving, of course; it’s those hardworking catering folks. If i were them, I’d get really tired of coldcuts, rolls, salad, and brownies, and oh, coleslaw. They don’t complain, though; they are good natured and nice.
Do we like using the library as a restaurant? Nope; the idea of mayonnaise getting accidentally smeared on the Encyclopedia Britannica is kind of scary. And the odor is, well, different than the usual book smell. I just hope there are lots of ideas being generated and exchanged over coldcuts and coleslaw. That’s what we are all about, right, ideas?
Margi
