Librarians' sassy display perfectly sums up the kind of questions they have to deal with

Words are hard.
Librarians' sassy display perfectly sums up the kind of questions they have to deal with
"There was a book I wanted... I think it had the title on the cover. Also the author, if that helps." Credit: Mehedi Hasan/NurPhoto via Getty Images

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.

But it turns out Framingham isn't the only library to deal with forgetful visitors using colour-coding.

But it seems some book searches aren't remediable by colour.

Thank you librarians for finding ingenious ways to help people find books using only the vaguest prompts.

[H/T: Twitter Moments]

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