[Publib] Clients/Patrons/Customers

[Robert Balliot]

You just don't want to get the ones hopped up on Mountain  Dew:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5zFiYHgftw

R. Balliot
http://oceanstatelibrarian.com

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Kathleen Stipek <kstipek at aclib.us> wrote:

> I had a venerable colleague with a good old-fashioned classical
> education, i.e., she could read Latin the way I read English, who
> claimed that 'patron' was perfect for the people who come through the
> front door.  After all, like the Roman patron, they were picky,
> demanding, sometimes petty, and provided us with our jobs so we had to
> be nice to them whether we liked them or not.
>
> Kathleen Stipek
>
> Alachua County Library District
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> 401 East University Avenue
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> Gainesville, Florida 32601
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> 352-334-3931, fax 352-334-3939
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>
>
> --Non, merci
>
>  Cyrano de Bergerac
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: publib-bounces at webjunction.org
> [mailto:publib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Melissa K. Davidson
> Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 5:27 PM
> To: publib at webjunction.org
> Subject: RE: [Publib] Clients/Patrons/Customers
>
> I love the option below, but maybe users would suffice?
>
> Melissa
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: publib-bounces at webjunction.org
> [mailto:publib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Nann Blaine Hilyard
> Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 5:12 PM
> To: 'mmaney at south-berwick.lib.me.us'; 'Kevin Okelly'; 'Phalbe
> Henriksen'; 'Diedre Conkling'
> Cc: 'libs-or'; publib at webjunction.org
> Subject: RE: [Publib] Clients/Patrons/Customers
>
> PubLib's own John Richmond and Joe Schallan gave us "custopatronomers."
>
> Nann
> @ZBPL
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