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November 12, 2011
Perkins
The Good Library Guide Blog is very proud to announce that Perkins has a new job
She is to be the library cat of a famous and presitgious library in California. This is very exciting etc and more details will be released at some point in the future.
"Libraries in England" are not dependable for a career - "even for the most experienced library cat" - she said in a statement
Perkins has previously been the library cat of the Carnegie library on the dockside at Bloggington on Sea. She came to prominence seven years ago when a newspaper (now sadly defunct) observed that the public library service in England was so badly run that even a cat could do better - and Perkins proved that to be true
She played a significant role in the downfall of BATT - a cricketing expression, of the Ministry of Libraries and Archives (MLA), the Society for Closing Libraries (SCL), the Department of Common Sense (DCMS) and of SYRUP .
Afficionadoes of this blog will know that she used to sleep in the space vacated by missing titles in the 12 volume set of 'Naval Maneouvres (sic) in Bloggington Bay in the reign of Queen Anne' and has already been made an honorary citizen cat of the United States of America.
Onwards and Upwards -- to Lemon County California, Bilbary Town Library.
(Perkins has a nephew and a niece called Bob and Kitty. Bob is difficult)
Posted by Perkins at November 12, 2011 12:30 PM
Comments
Pleased to hear about Perkins' new job, and it's certainly true there's no future in England (Britain) for those wishing to work in libraries. I went to California myself last year, and it was a great relief to see positive attitudes for a change. I've recently felt like ceasing to continue blogging as (as made obvious in a previous blog by Perkins) there is no initiative, no interest and no life left in the profession. And for those of you who might make excuses for your enfeebled lack of guts by knocking me, get one thing straight. I wasn't driven to this by a lack of girls or dating opportunities. I was driven to it by complete disgust for the decay and hopelessness I saw in the "profession", the spineless failure to decide anything, the hiding behind meaningless qualifications and idiotic buzz words, and the poncey, careful lines of argument which took great care to exonerate those with vested interests and attitudes from responsibility for, well, anything. Now, you might like to assume there is no more I could say, and to salve your pricked egos by assuming I would fade away as a falure. Sorry to disappoint you. I reinvented yourself, and if you want to find out how, and find out what initiative and a positive attitude can really lead to, then I suggest you read a book called "Dear Miss Landau" when it comes out in March. And if you don't want to buy it, you might be able to find it in your local library...
Posted by: James Christie at November 13, 2011 11:28 PM