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    In The Library

    Remember that first report that the teacher assigned to you ? Remeber you hardly knew what to do until that sweet young librarian, with those glasses and her hair tied back came to you and showed you what the library is all about. Well, with this gift for your favorite lady you can relive those precious moments...

    http://www.neatorama.com/2010/09/19/...like-a-library
    I keep my 2 feet on the ground, and my head in the twilight zone.

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    "Where would we be without the agitators of the world to attach the electrodes
    of knowledge to the nipples of ignorance?" ~ Professor "Dick" Soloman



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    It's available in different scents. Reference, periodicals, fiction, non-fiction, and the ever popular "check out my Dewey decimal system".

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    "Oh, baby--you know what 'Library of Congress' does to me!"
    All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.

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    It does tend to take the wringles out of the bindings, doesn't it?

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    Quote Originally Posted by WØTKX View Post




    Very nice... I'd love to carry her books... Brings back memories of my youth, misspent in the library in the summertime. And the guys in my neighborhood always wondered why I was always heading over to the library...
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    Quote Originally Posted by K7SGJ View Post
    It's available in different scents. Reference, periodicals, fiction, non-fiction, and the ever popular "check out my Dewey decimal system".
    I don't know... But...just the thought of having a lady who smells like a library is all too awesome to behold...
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    Around here, all libraries smelled of acid based paper, read that as paper mill smell that was old but still pungent, and vomit. What did janitors back in the day use to clean up vomit? Something that also smelled of vomit. It wasn't until my later teen years that they pulled up the vomit carpet that was laid down over the hardwood floors in the early 60's. This really helped with the smell but there was still all that old acid based paper. It was about late 90's early 2000's that they did a total remodel, reconstruction of the Greenville Public Library and this included the children's branch. Haz-Mat was there for the collection of asbestos but there was also mold in most of the walls and support structures that were covered with plaster.

    Up until the last couple years, I could always tell the day they started airing out the schools from the Summer months. The air would be filled with the smell of old books and vomit. This has been happening less as every year they find a ton of mold somewhere and then they teardown and sterilize.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KG4CGC View Post
    Around here, all libraries smelled of acid based paper, read that as paper mill smell that was old but still pungent, and vomit. What did janitors back in the day use to clean up vomit? Something that also smelled of vomit. It wasn't until my later teen years that they pulled up the vomit carpet that was laid down over the hardwood floors in the early 60's. This really helped with the smell but there was still all that old acid based paper. It was about late 90's early 2000's that they did a total remodel, reconstruction of the Greenville Public Library and this included the children's branch. Haz-Mat was there for the collection of asbestos but there was also mold in most of the walls and support structures that were covered with plaster.

    Up until the last couple years, I could always tell the day they started airing out the schools from the Summer months. The air would be filled with the smell of old books and vomit. This has been happening less as every year they find a ton of mold somewhere and then they teardown and sterilize.
    Round here libraries smelled from enamel based paint... particularly when the steam came up and the painted radiators got hot. In the summer there was a slight moldy smell, perhaps from all the books and the humidity.
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    Quote Originally Posted by n2ize View Post
    Round here libraries smelled from enamel based paint... particularly when the steam came up and the painted radiators got hot. In the summer there was a slight moldy smell, perhaps from all the books and the humidity.
    Ah yes, I forgot about the paint smell too. Paint that absorbed and held on to odors for years.
    In the 80's there was a smokers lounge inside the library. Today, you can not even smoke near a library. Some sections of downtown do not allow smoking anywhere.
    I realize that I'm coming off as pooing on your thread. I'm not trying to. It is just the first thing that came to mind. Perhaps I should have used that filter before typing.

    There is a branch close to me that I visited a few times last year. It was built within the last 8 years. It smelled of coffee. There is a coffee shop inside and there are rooms that hold acetate microfilm that can only be accessed by library personnel wearing body suits that they must put on after passing through a dust removal chamber. There are reference sections that require similar action.

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