It is apparent to me that my biggest challenge in working, once I get hired somewhere without gender prejudice, won't be dealing with bums or illegals or screaming abandoned children or drug addicts. No, my biggest challenge is the use of acronyms in library context. There are way too many of those. There's also the use of antique terms, like monograph. WTF is is a monograph? I had to look it up. Wouldn't Non-Fiction be fine? I have encountered many people with OCD, and radical lesbians (the kind who actively and visibly and verbally hate men rather than those who don't pay any attention to us), and also the incredibly meek and retreating who can't deal with the needed polite confrontations of public life. Being a man, I have the advantage there. People come into the library for a reason. Asking what that is can often end a confrontation positively.
Still, the acronyms are something I will have to get used to. They were fashionable for a while. They go out of fashion too. When they give ideas proper names I will welcome that.
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