Librarians' sassy display perfectly sums up the kind of questions they have to deal with
Words are hard.
"There was a book I wanted... I think it had the title on the cover. Also the author, if that helps."
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Did you ever read a book? Did it have, like, characters and a bit with some people?
A Twitter user's picture of a library's ingenious solution to forgetful bibliophiles has gone viral, with over 36,000 retweets at time of writing.
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But it turns out Framingham isn't the only library to deal with forgetful visitors using colour-coding.
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But it seems some book searches aren't remediable by colour.
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Thank you librarians for finding ingenious ways to help people find books using only the vaguest prompts.
[H/T: Twitter Moments]
Topics Books