Libraries are wonderful places, one of the most highly esteemed of our public institutions. The modern lending library, as originally conceived by Ben Franklin, is a place to borrow books, but in time it has grown into much more. Now, library's are place to learn through educational programs, and they are a place of entertainment through audio and video check-outs, and lately they have become a place to network globally through the library's Internet terminals and Wi-Fi access.
As grand and wonderful as the public library truly is as an institution, it also is very much a public institution, and the public isn't always all that well-behaved. This site is about those occasional moments when the public misbehaves.
These stories are accounts of actual events that Annette has experienced during her work as a librarian in a public library. To read each story simply click on one of the story titles at left. Special thanks to Mike Ferman for his generous permission to display the cartoons he created while working at Annette's library. Mike is now retired from a career teaching art. During his career he had many of his cartoons printed in various publications.