Yup. I was a library monitor for four years. But now it makes me a little bit sad because I can't get work in a library and all the library courses are about commerce stuff. And working with books would not be boring.
And even my mum forgets that I have experience. I lent her a book one time and she was bending the spine backwards. I said, "don't do that to my books" and my grandma said, "I used to work at a library and we did that all the time." (stupid grandma) I said, "Yeah well so did I and that's not your book it's mine."
If people can't be careful with my things, I'm not going to lend them any more!!!
'Scuse mini rant -- you just reminded me about this story. Congrats on your master's degree, by the way.
I have a volunteer job at a library. I often spend a great deal of time there, but as it's winter I don't go there as much (normally I walk there). It's such a peaceful place, I think it has a great working environment.
I want to be with the books, but librarians are supposed to work with people more. To heck with that!
Jewelie, welcome to AFF, you have just summed up what is wrong with most jobs...that is why, whatever I do for a living in the future, I will always be a dishwasher as well, even if it is only for a few hours a week. Unless, of course, some management "genius" finds a way to drag people-pleasing into that too... 
Richard Brautigan's novel "The Abortion: an historical romance 1966", is about a library where people can leave the books they have written and made themselves. It's not for lending them out.
I began to frequent the town library in 1985 and in an annex there was a café that I used as some kind of office. I'd be there every day it was open, reading, drinking coffea, writing, and it was the perfect place to make friends.
Currently my dreams evolve around the idea of managing a small antiquarian book shop. Up until december last year I was buying books at an alarming rate. Now I haven't time to do that as I'm here on AFF when I don't watch tv or sleep.
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Jewelie, welcome to AFF, you have just summed up what is wrong with
most jobs...that is why, whatever I do for a living in the future, I will
always be a dishwasher as well, even if it is only for a few hours a week. Unless, of course, some management "genius" finds a way to drag people-pleasing into
that too...
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Ugh!!! Kitchenhanding is the worst job!!! Yuck yuck yuck. Never EVER want to do that again. (The only one I want to do less is door to door sales -- or perhaps professional urine taster 
!!!) They made me serve meals and tea, which I guess falls into the "people-pleaser" catagory. Yukkedy yuck I swear I will DIE before I go back to being a kitchenhand.
Libraries are good for studying things, I guess.
Ah, libraries! I could live at the library!
"We're here, we're weird, get used to it!"
I love that! I must paint that on a sign, or possibly my bedroom wall.
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I wonder how many people who would be great at working in libraries never end up doing so because of the library courses?
I also love reading, but most libraries I've been to don't have good selections of the books I like to read: field guides, books on animal behavior, books on freshwater fish, etc. Most of them just have large fiction sections, but I don't like reading fiction. Also, the fact that many people lick their fingers when turning pages disgusts me. I think the libraries should have rules against that.
I just prefer to buy my own books and build up a collection rather than going to the library every week.
Sorry I missed those last two posts.
I was just thinking today how disappointed I was in the less than enthusiastic response to this thread, as I'd have expected to find more Aspie bookworms.
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I wouldn't see the smallish number of replies as a sign of lack of enthusiasm -- sometimes people look at a thread and find it interesting, but cannot presently think of a reply.
I know I do.
I just prefer to buy my own books and build up a collection rather than going to the library every week.
I'm the same way. And for me it's necessary to buy my own because when I read (constantly) I underline and write in the margins. That horrifies some book lovers, but it's my way of having a conversation with the book and imprinting what I read on my mind.
When I was a kid I practically lived at the library. Now I get all my books online -- buying two or three a week. (Okay, sometimes four or five.) Being ADHD, I see a book and impulsively buy it ("Oooh! THAT looks good!) Sometimes it's months before I get around to reading them.
I started a library course last year, but I didn't feel like I was smart enough so I dropped out. It sparked a fascination with libraries, though. Prior to that I always found them too confusing and scary to be in much (like a foreign planet with its own set of arbitrary rules and order).
It seems to me that libraries in some places have a greater emphasis on rules than in others. (The smaller regional libraries I've been in don't have those librarians who go "shh" at everyone. And they do tend to be far more comfortable environments -- especially for those of us who can't stand to have no background noise at all.)
Libraries are in my top 3 of favorite places in the world.
I can't stand visiting certain branch libraries in the city I live in though, because of the noise level. Does anyone else remember when it was sort of an expectation that you had to keep the noise level down if you were in a library? Now, at several of these branches, it's nothing but people having loud conversations, blaring music on computer headphones so loud you can hear it three rows away, talking VERY loudly on cell phones despite "Please use cell phones only in lobby" signs......
The city's downtown central library is very nice, though: cool, dim, quiet, smelling of old book. I've spent literally whole days wandering around in there.
As for home collections: I currently possess over two thousand books.
My parents were very poor, so there was barely enough money for food, and definitely no money for books, but they made it a priority to take us to the library every two weeks to check out the maximum number of books allowed. Thank god for that! Now I'm in debt up to my eyeballs thanks to AMAZON.com. Yeah, even my university's Asperger collection is not quite up to par, but mine is vast! (my new special interest) I don't have ADHD, but I'm just as impulsive when it comes to seeing a new book on Amazon, I gottahaveit!
YES! No matter what, my mom got us books, one way or another.
Since I finally reached the point in my life when I could afford a little luxury spending, it's been all about books. The UPS guy comes to my office three - five days a week with deliveries. Actually, today I got two books at school and four at home.
Jewelie -
My other two favorite places are the forest/beach (on a cool day), or being home in bed with a good book and a large fan on as a white-noise machine. Both places = very calm and quiet; well, unless you have some maniac bird screaming in a tree somewhere, but birds aren't nearly as annoying as people-noise.
(When I grow up I want to be a curmudgeon
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As far as book-shopping goes, I buy most of mine at little independent or used bookstores, garage sales, library clearance sales, etc. which cuts back on cost.