Unfortunate Acronyms @ Your Library
A friend's 15 year old daughter sent this story to me earlier this week. Names omitted to protect the guilty. (Thanks HBK!)
Our main children’s librarian has lots of reading groups with “cool” initials. For example, there’s A.T.L.A.S teens (At The Library After School).
She decided it would be a good idea to start a group of younger children (with older kids and adults helping) on a knitting project for the animal shelter. I volunteered to help with it. What it is, is every Tuesday night from 4:15 to 5:00, we get together in the children’s library and knit blankets for cats.
I heard about it and thought it was a good idea (although a lot of kids are getting mutinous over the fact that they don’t get to take their blanket home with them), until I saw the name. She decided to call it Kiddies Knitting for Kitties. That’s the KKK. Our library is hosting an organization called the KKK. Oh my God.
The best part is, this idea was presented to a whole board of library directors or something, and it took a stupid 9th grader to figure it out.
As I told my young friend...thank goodness for stupid 9th graders!
I used to work with JanWay Co. to develop artwork for their summer reading programs. Needless to say, I came across some odd acronyms...
Posted by: Kneon Transitt | 2006.06.22 at 02:05 PM
Haha, this is my story! If our children's librarian saw this, she would kill me.
Posted by: HBK | 2006.03.28 at 09:28 AM
When I was in junior high we had USSR too. I seem to recall a lot of crappy fake Russian accents and "comrade" and "-ski" thrown around.
I wonder if 13 year-olds would even get it today?
Posted by: Ryan | 2006.02.23 at 11:25 PM
here's my favorite, from a school librarian: uninterrupted sustained silent reading.
used in a sentence: we really have to advocate for USSR at our school.
Posted by: heidi | 2006.02.16 at 06:37 PM