Everyone loves Libraries

When you work in a library you expect that you will be working with information (books, journals, databases, search engines, etc…). And you expect you will be helping patrons (students, faculty, community members, etc…). What you don’t generally expect, nor do you usually get training for, is helping critters visiting the library. Library clerk Diane Trombly (who is usually one of the first ones in the library most mornings) with the help of cleaning and maintenance staff successfully rescued this raccoon from the library dumpster this week. The poor thing was dumpster diving (those apple cores are so tempting) but as we had a larger than usual dumpster for summer cleaning projects it couldn’t get out. Diane placed a board in the dumpster and with some well placed boxes and with plenty of soothing encouragement the critter was coaxed out. It hid under the dumpster for a few minutes before heading across the lawn in the direction of the humanities building. Obviously it had digested enough information for now.