Spotlight on Valerie R., Human Resources Administrative Assistant, who has observed a small dead zone in the hallway between the SDPL admin offices & the staff ladies‘ room. When she walks through this area, it is suddenly 20 seconds later & she can’t recall her mom’s maiden name. Only briefly.

Diana M., Local History Librarian, has been located working as a line cook at Panda Express in Ozark! She claims to have no memory of working for SDPL or of her extensive research here. “Please, go away!” she said, but when she reached to untie her apron we saw the distinctive upper arm tattoo.

Did you know? The barn featured in local author Ruth Maynard’s seminal 1988 horror novel, Moon People, still stands in the woods behind the Main Branch. The barn has been closed to the public since the copycat kidnappings of the mid-90s, but SDPL still hosts occasional craft programs at the venue.

Meet Agnes T., Children’s Librarian. Prior to starting at SDPL, Agnes T. hadn’t worked with kids, & she doesn’t plan to start now. In fact, she finds kids unsettling. Why do they stare at the corner? Eyes wide, jaws slack? There’s nothing in that corner. The corner is FINE. It’s a normal corner.

Reminder that Franklin Branch Library Librarians are NOT librarians. They are barely even human.

Agnes O., Reference Librarian, looks out the window at the peaceful snow which blanketed Shady Dell overnight and idly wonders why, though the reading room is positively packed with patrons, there isn’t a single footprint leading up to the library’s entrance.

Repairs are complete & the Thoth Conference Room at the Main Branch is available for reservations!

We’ve sealed & blessed the opening that appeared after the sinkhole disaster. Father Zeb from Our Lady of Occasional Obeisance assures us the sightings will decrease.

There’s also a new projector.

We’ve received several patron complaints about Librarians from Franklin Branch Library (FBL) knocking on doors asking to look at “bookshelf schematics” & growing hostile when refused entry.

We’d like to once again remind the general public that the Franklin Branch is NOT associated with SDPL.

Tonight’s local history program, “ ‘We Came Upon a Little Dell Where the Sun Seemed Afeared to Shine’: The Inauspicious Beginnings of Shady Dell,” is postponed until further notice.
Diana M., Local History Librarian, set off on a research trip to North Folk Wood last Monday and has not returned.

NOW HIRING

Page at SDPL Main Branch. No experience. Minimum wage. Duties include:
- reshelving and organizing materials
- assisting the Librarians in monitoring CCTV system and reporting anomalies to Agnes L., Interim Security Officer
- other duties as required by the Librarians

Agnes L., Circulation Manager and Interim Security Officer, continues working on issues with our CCTV. Last week a Page, monitoring the system from the staff desk, reported seeing her own exact likeness standing two floors away in the basement archives. Which is impossible, of course.

In response to the incident involving the Shady Dell Elementary field trip last week, a Content Warning has been added to the Room of Heads, located at the Main Branch, third floor, last door on the left.

Meet Agnes W., Head Librarian and SDPL’s longest-serving staff member. Agnes W. earned her Masters of Library Science many years ago—back when women had to chop off their hair and dress like young Cockney lads to receive higher education—and has been working at SDPL ever since.

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