OOC: The Fandom High Library & You!
It's Smaller On The Outside: The Library & Special Collections
(with swiping-thanks to one_who_goes, bookworm_beauty, and ook_oook)
Library Rules
1. The library is open daily during regular school hours, or 10-4(ish) on weekends. It may be opened after hours with special permission. (Please ask a day in advance.)
2. Students, faculty, and townspeople may check out any number of books for a period of two weeks if they have a library card. All students and faculty have received library cards at this time; townies may handwave having applied for one or play it out.
3. We love having classes use the library for projects, but please give us an OOC heads up a day an advance so we can set up the OCD and call in reinforcements if we need them.
4. The library is fully equipped; it has books and magazines from all dimensions, multidimensional Internet access, and DVDs, VHS and CDs to meet your needs. The books are arranged roughly according to Dewey Decimal System, although the library may rearrange itself when we aren't looking. The materials are on public shelves with a few exceptions:
a. Certain materials are in Special Collections. The basics are that things are in SC if they:
I. Are obscene. You ARE in high school.
II. Are old, rare or otherwise extremely valuable.
III. Directly concern another character at Fandom High.
IV. Could be harmful -- for instance, instructions on building a bomb, or specific magical spells.
To get into Special Collections, students must have a note from a faculty member and link to it in the library thread. If you're researching another cast member, please get and submit their OOC permission as well. Please let the library staff know that you want to go in there a few days in advance so we can moderate traffic. You should really only be going in there for plotty or class purposes.
Access to SC can be simple, but it's sentient, so sometimes things get ... interesting. (It's rumored to be not exactly in this world, and it's much larger inside than outside). If you want an SC adventure, let the library staff know at least 48 hours in advance and we will try to accommodate you. The current librarian is really nooooooot a fan of letting children (or anyone) anywhere near the magics living in Special Collections, so IC he'll probably balk at letting people in, especially without an escort. OOCly, of course, it's up for grabs.
5. As always, in-character actions = in character consequences. Meaning, if you want to play out stealing or vandalizing a book, or otherwise misusing the library, go for it, but the odds that you'll get caught are very, very high.
6. Library staff operate as a collective; sometimes, the aide on duty will need to check with the others before making a decision. Please be patient.
So You Want To Be A Library Aide
Aides are responsible for posting the library one day a week. (If two people want to sign up as a team to cover a single day, that's coolbeans).
In IC terms, your character can have either filled out the application at some (handwavily) or be assigned via the GLORIOUS tradition of paperwork error. Either way, you need to fill out the form below and post it here for my records. If you want to apply IC, hit me up and we'll see what we can do.
Duties include shelving books, keeping the librarian caffeinated, organizing books, loaning books, wrangling books, and ensuring the sustainability of the fabric of time and space. You may be asked to handle awkward book situations, such as: dog earred corners, sudden fangs, purple prose, books turning into animals, animals turning into books, ponies, and the ever dreaded paper cut.
So here's what I need from you IC:
Name:
Class:
Age:
Preferred Day:
Why are you interested in the position of Library Aide?
How would you describe your personal relationship with books?
There has been an uprising in the History section, lead by books accounting revolutions. How do you handle this occurrence?
There is a pony in the library who is not on the faculty. What do you do?
The librarian is smoking in his office. Again. What do you do?
What is the most important thing about the library?
Current library aides! I'd like you to fill out the form too, but instead of 'preferred day,' just let me know what your current work-day is, and if you want to stick with that.
[OOC: Go wild, comments screened.]
(with swiping-thanks to one_who_goes, bookworm_beauty, and ook_oook)
Library Rules
1. The library is open daily during regular school hours, or 10-4(ish) on weekends. It may be opened after hours with special permission. (Please ask a day in advance.)
2. Students, faculty, and townspeople may check out any number of books for a period of two weeks if they have a library card. All students and faculty have received library cards at this time; townies may handwave having applied for one or play it out.
3. We love having classes use the library for projects, but please give us an OOC heads up a day an advance so we can set up the OCD and call in reinforcements if we need them.
4. The library is fully equipped; it has books and magazines from all dimensions, multidimensional Internet access, and DVDs, VHS and CDs to meet your needs. The books are arranged roughly according to Dewey Decimal System, although the library may rearrange itself when we aren't looking. The materials are on public shelves with a few exceptions:
a. Certain materials are in Special Collections. The basics are that things are in SC if they:
I. Are obscene. You ARE in high school.
II. Are old, rare or otherwise extremely valuable.
III. Directly concern another character at Fandom High.
IV. Could be harmful -- for instance, instructions on building a bomb, or specific magical spells.
To get into Special Collections, students must have a note from a faculty member and link to it in the library thread. If you're researching another cast member, please get and submit their OOC permission as well. Please let the library staff know that you want to go in there a few days in advance so we can moderate traffic. You should really only be going in there for plotty or class purposes.
Access to SC can be simple, but it's sentient, so sometimes things get ... interesting. (It's rumored to be not exactly in this world, and it's much larger inside than outside). If you want an SC adventure, let the library staff know at least 48 hours in advance and we will try to accommodate you. The current librarian is really nooooooot a fan of letting children (or anyone) anywhere near the magics living in Special Collections, so IC he'll probably balk at letting people in, especially without an escort. OOCly, of course, it's up for grabs.
5. As always, in-character actions = in character consequences. Meaning, if you want to play out stealing or vandalizing a book, or otherwise misusing the library, go for it, but the odds that you'll get caught are very, very high.
6. Library staff operate as a collective; sometimes, the aide on duty will need to check with the others before making a decision. Please be patient.
So You Want To Be A Library Aide
Aides are responsible for posting the library one day a week. (If two people want to sign up as a team to cover a single day, that's coolbeans).
In IC terms, your character can have either filled out the application at some (handwavily) or be assigned via the GLORIOUS tradition of paperwork error. Either way, you need to fill out the form below and post it here for my records. If you want to apply IC, hit me up and we'll see what we can do.
Duties include shelving books, keeping the librarian caffeinated, organizing books, loaning books, wrangling books, and ensuring the sustainability of the fabric of time and space. You may be asked to handle awkward book situations, such as: dog earred corners, sudden fangs, purple prose, books turning into animals, animals turning into books, ponies, and the ever dreaded paper cut.
So here's what I need from you IC:
Name:
Class:
Age:
Preferred Day:
Why are you interested in the position of Library Aide?
How would you describe your personal relationship with books?
There has been an uprising in the History section, lead by books accounting revolutions. How do you handle this occurrence?
There is a pony in the library who is not on the faculty. What do you do?
The librarian is smoking in his office. Again. What do you do?
What is the most important thing about the library?
Current library aides! I'd like you to fill out the form too, but instead of 'preferred day,' just let me know what your current work-day is, and if you want to stick with that.
[OOC: Go wild, comments screened.]