Yon Librarian of little faith…

The Witness Times takes a look into a creature with 2 arms and 2 legs, though only his face is seen most of the time – The Assistant Librarian. Read on…

Good evening. Welcome to the first post in Witness Times about “The College”. You might want to read up Librarian of Library of Liberty (offsite link to a fellow College blogger) before you start reading this article to give you an introduction to the Library in The College.

Lets get on with it… The library of liberty, as I may call it (naming copyrights : Georgelivestheday.blogspot.com) has many so called Assistant Librarians. We watched for a couple of hours, the action which goes on in the Library.

One of our Agents were posted at the entrance of the Library, innocently reading the latest edition of BenefIT. In comes a student of MSW Ist year. Lets call him Mr LN. Oh, he’s a doctor… So its Dr. LN. He pats our agent on our back to acknowledge friendship and walks right into the reference section.

In all, he broke 5 commandments. Oh, by the way, here are the commandments of the Library of Liberty -

1) Thou shalt not make noise nor speak
2) Thou shalt not steal
3) Thou shalt not take out your mobile phones
4) Thou shalt not take the reference books outside the cul-de-sac
5) Thou shall not get ‘nutritionalized’ inside the sanctum
6) Thou shall surrender thy ID card
7) Thou shalt not make noise with feet, chair etc.
Thou shalt not withdraw a book with ease
9) Thou shalt not argue with the Librarians
10) Thou shall obey blindly the words the Librarian.

So back to our story, Dr LN walked straight past the Assistant Librarian, who had a scandalized look on his face. Dr was evidently in quite a hurry. He walked right into the Reference section, while being quite careful to make as much noise as possible. The Asst Librarian on seeing his not surrendering his ID card, started running towards the poor Dr from the other room. But Dr LN was in QUITE a hurry that he managed to reach the entrance, with a reference book clutched tightly in his hand. The Asst Lib caught up with him there. Seriously out of breath, he started shouting (chocking?) at the poor Doctor for a dozen different reasons. Dr LN said something about a Photostat in the other room. And at this point, the Asst Lib lost all control and started quacking like Donald Duck. Dr LN started contemplating the Asst Lib with professional interest.

The Asst Lib kept muttering things like – noise with feet – stealing books – leaving no id – fighting with librarians – I will show you etc etc etc…

Epilogue : Dr LN was able to successfully take a few photocopies of the required pages and in replacing the book.

But the story does not end there. We at the Witness Times were curious with the Asst Lib’s approach. So we deployed an Agent to test his efficiency.

• At first, we used an Under-graduate ID card to enter the Post-graduate section. Success!
• Then we used the same UG card to enter the BHM library. Success again!
• Then came the most crucial test. We coloured a piece of paper blue, yellow and grey to resemble the ID card, and entered all three sections with this piece of waste paper.

So how diligent was Mr Donald Duck anyway? We wish his all the very best for his future life…

2007 The Witness Times News Corps (c)

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