Sunday, January 29, 2012

EPISODE 47 (147): Spinoffs


As with successful TV shows that spinoff into subsequent TV shows, sometimes "liberry" programs spin off into others. However, for every Cheers to Frasier spin-off, there are twenty forgettable Friends to Joey spinoffs.

I got to be the architect of two such back to back spinoffs of our weekly morning story hour program, which became evening story time projects with the unlikely acronyms of O.U.A.W and T.U.A.T. Over the course of most of a year, their attendance, and therefore success, varied wildly from week to week, with anywhere from six to zero kids turning up to hear me read stories at them.

While I always thought of myself as Frasier, I guess I was closer to Joey. Or maybe even, The Tortellis.

(This episode features notable appearances by previous podcast topic characters Little Kevin Martin and Chester the (Potential) Molester.)

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Sunday, January 22, 2012

EPISODE 46 (146): Greenhorns 2: Greenhornier

Our troubles with the Newbie Greenhorns on staff only began with Ms. K, Ms. M and Miss F. For they were but the heralds for the coming of the great and terrible Queen of the Greenhorns: Ms. S.

On paper, Ms. S seemed like a dream come true, for while she was but a newbie to our "liberry" she held in her employment history actual experience working in a larger library in a neighboring county, which meant she knew our computer system already. Sweet! Better still, she allegedly held an undergraduate degree in library science. We thought: How could a new employee get any better? Welllll, a lot, it turns out. And by quite a staggering margin. She took greenhorning to the next level.

Taken individually, none of Ms. S's myriad of "liberry" crimes was worthy of termination from her job. However, it's the cumulative effect that really drove the rest of us over the edge. This is her story.

(This episode guest starring: Birthday Lady)

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Sunday, January 15, 2012

EPISODE 45 (145): Winston's Story

One of the cast members of the Tales from the "Liberry" blog who was on the scene long before I ever worked in a public library was my cat Winston Churchill: The Infinitely Bad Kitty. Named because she looked exactly like the former British Prime Minister as an infant, Winston was one of my best friends throughout my 20s and much of my 30s. However, due to a series of most unfortunate events, she nearly didn't make it through the midpoint of my 30s. This is the miraculous story of her salvation.

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Sunday, January 8, 2012

EPISODE 44 (144): Newbie Greenhorns

Everybody has to start their career somewhere and usually when you start at entry level you're not very good. It takes a while to find your feet. And that was the purpose of the Newbie Greenhorn program at our "liberry". Newbie Greenhorns were allowed time to work out the kinks and master the details of their job without a great deal of initial positive expectation on the part of their coworkers. Ideally, these employees would graduate to mere Greenhorn status and then full fledged "Liberry" Ass. status, with all the perks that come with that position. Some graduated right away. And some did not graduate EVER despite years on the job.

Today's episode is the first part in an ongoing series chronicling our problems with the Newbie Greenhorns.

banning from the use of our computers at the hands of... himself.

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Sunday, January 1, 2012

"LiberryCAST" Mug Contest

At right is a picture of the CafePress coffee mug I’ve designed as the prize going to the person who brings the most traffic to this website in the month of January.

Here’s how it works. You post a link to liberrycast.com on your website. Then, promote the fact that it’s linked on your website by encouraging people to go to YOUR website and click on the link. Don't just tell folks to go to liberrycast.com, cause I won't know the referral is coming from you. They need to click on the link on your website. Also, it doesn’t do any good for you to send them the liberrycast.com link in an email `cause I still won’t be able to tell from that that the referral is coming from you. (Though, you should do it anyway, cause I’ll take traffic from where I can get it.) We need solid links from solid websites that will turn up in my traffic reports so I can see how many different people came to my site from your site.

Q: Will this work with twitter and facebook?

A: Eh, I’m not sure. This is as exact a science as I can make it, but I suspect there might be flaws. I can tell that hits are coming to my site from Facebook and Twitter, but determining which exact FB or Twitter page they're coming from is a bit problematic. Feel free to try, but no promises.

At the end of January, I’ll have a look at my traffic reports from the three different statistical measurement services I use and I will determine what website brought the most traffic my way. Then I’ll send the person who owns that site a fabulous Liberrycast coffee mug fo' free.

It might also be helpful for you to send me your mailing address and the website from which you plan to post the link in advance so that I’ll have that on hand and will be sure to keep an eye out for traffic from you. You can send that stuff to liberrycast@gmail.com.

Now, just so’s ya know, Café Press serves the United States, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom. Allegedly they will ship worldwide as well, but I haven’t had cause to test the limitations of this claim. Whatever country you’re in, if you send the most traffic my way, I’ll try to get a mug to you.

I should also add that I’ve never tried anything like this contest before so I don’t really know how well it’s going to work. I’m just giving it a try. If it works, I’ll do it again, but with a different and possibly more desirable product.

So, you’ve got one month. Do my bidding and send people in my direction and you shall be rewarded. Hopefully.
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EPISODE 43 (143): ParKAST 2


Back for the new year are tales of everyone's favorite puffy, white, Michelin Man parka-clad, innanet crowd patron, Parka. Detailed here are tales of his repeatedly thwarted efforts to drink his coffee while chatting with his e-skanks on our computers, what it might sound like were he to have been given a microphone with which to chat with them, his deep roots into the synchronicity fields surrounding our building, and his banning from the use of our computers at the hands of... himself.

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