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	rimrunner 2007-04-26 04:05 am UTC (link)
	My thoughts exactly. Speaking as a professional librarian, there's no way those books were shelved anywhere near each other. Ha! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	magpiggles 2007-04-26 01:01 pm UTC (link)
	It's been a while since I worked in a library, but aren't military books around 300 and GBLT stuff near the 500's on the dewey decimal system? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	gobsmacked 2007-04-26 03:17 pm UTC (link)
	dewey decimal system In this case, more like the dew-y (as in damp and covered in little droplets) system. channels Robin Williams *You boyz, put down that book! You stick all the pages together!" (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Incoming UHF Reference amxjm 2007-04-26 06:24 pm UTC (link)
	lifts, glares Don't you know the dewey decimal system? (Reply to this)(Parent)

tiye
2007-04-26 03:26 pm UTC (link)

I dunno, when I worked as a shelver in a university library for awhile I would find some very suspect mis-shelvings, especially of sexxy!material. I think library patrons occasionally stick these books in the wrong sections on purpose, either to hide them from other people so that they know where to find them again because they're too embarrassed to actually check them out, or as some sort of lame attempt to "sabotage" the library's collection for ideological reasons without outright stealing or vandalizing the books. So yeah, although this guy's story is most likely a steaming pile of BS, I wouldn't be that surprised to find a sex book in a totally inappropriate section of the library.

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marciamarcia
2007-04-26 10:37 pm UTC (link)

I'll confess, many moons ago, when I was a sexually repressed teenager, I did that all the damn time--quickly and surreptitiously grabbing books that looked like they might have sexy parts and then spending hours reading them in far-removed and inconspicuous sections of the library. And, occasionally, I did stash them away places so that I could go back to the "safe" sections and read the sexy book again without fear of being caught.

Oddly, though, I also did this with Star Wars books. For some reason, I thought it would be terribly embarrassing to check one out or be caught reading one.

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	monsley 2007-04-26 10:48 pm UTC (link)
	You're cute. And I wish I'd thought of that when I was a sexually repressed teenager. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	darkstarrie 2007-04-27 12:46 am UTC (link)
	I did that too! Only with James Bond books instead. (Reply to this)(Parent)

jat_sapphire
2007-04-28 05:11 pm UTC (link)

When I worked at the university library, I had to go into the stacks to try to locate missing issues or volumes of periodicals for the bindery, and I sometimes found very interesting magazines not on the library budget shelved amongst the less-used journals--in the business section, for instance, and once in history.

I don't know whether it was a practical joke or a place considered safe by the mags' owner(s).

Or maybe they liked to think about getting caught.

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