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From providing access to information to fostering community, libraries are super crucial to society. And what would a library be without its amazing librarians who deal with so much, from unruly patrons to budget cuts and everything in between?
So when TikTok usermacekarpaskedlibrarians to portion out the most unhinged thing someone has postulate them at the subroutine library , the response were soooo unspoiled .
Here are 16 of the WILDEST interactions librarians have had on the job (plus a warning at the very end):
1.“Someone once asked me for historical newspaper articles about a specific murder, which isn’t that unusual. However, the patron asking was just released from prison andwasthe murderer. He wanted to check his own press.”
2.“I’m an elementary librarian, and more than once, a child has asked me if my boss ever ‘lets me out’ because they never see me leaving or outside of the library. 😭”
3.“Every year, I get asked to do people’s taxes. Bestie, we will both go to jail.”
4.“A patron asked me for information on a rare foot fungus. Ten minutes later, I caught her barefoot running around the library.”
5.“I work in a law library. A patron who came in regularly asked to use our reference services to get the info he needed to sue us for not providing adequate reference services to him.”
6.“A woman came in looking for a specific cookbook, but she couldn’t tell me the name or what was in it, just that it was ‘highlighter yellow.’ After half an hour of searching, we finally found it. It was navy blue.”
7.“A patron was looking for a specific Bible verse to reference a specific quote. We went back and forth trying to find it and when we finally did, I had to let them know, ‘That’s not Jesus, ma’am, that’s Shakespeare.'”
8.“I was once asked, ‘Y’all got Playboys here?’ by a 13-year-old.”
9.“I had someone call and admit that in 2020, when we were closed for COVID, she BROKE IN THROUGH A WINDOW to return a book. She thought this was a completely normal thing to have done.”
10.“My favorite will always be the patron who called to ask me how much calcium was in a single slice of American cheese.”
11.“A patron told me her brother was almost buried alive in the Philippines in response to me telling her that her CD was overdue.”
12.“Someone asked me, ‘Do you guys have that book made out of human skin?’ We did not.”
13.“When I was a library intern, we found a three-piece suit and a loaf of bread someone tried to flush down a toilet.”
14.“My coworker was a librarian and he told me that every day, one patron would call to ask for his horoscope. When the patron didn’t like it, he’d unleash a blood-curdling scream and disconnect the call.”
15.“Once, I had someone ask about how many people died around our archives because she wanted to figure out how many ghosts would potentially be around.”
16.“Someone once called the desk and asked for the time, said thanks, and hung up. It’s so simple but has haunted me for over a year.”
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