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  • “Excuse me, I have a question.”
    “Miss Dove, you are at the reference desk. You answer the questions, you don’t ask them.”
    “Can I leave the reference desk?”

  • “Hey, why can’t a bird’s beak be 12 inches long?”
    “I don’t know, why?”
    “Because then it would be a foot!”
    “You know that J stands for juvenile, right?”
    “Yeah! That’s my favorite section!”

  • Library Matter

    “Excuse me, is everything ok?”
    “Oh yes, we are just settling a library matter.”
    “Ok! I give up! DDC is better than LCCN.”

  • Bluetiful

    “I am a beautiful butterfly!” -Heimlich, A Bug’s Life

  • Gross

    Ug. Gag me with a spoon! That is like totally Grosbeak to the max!
    (Our first Rose-breasted Grosbeak to visit the library!)

  • Miss Dove and Her Romeo

    Romeo: “Thus from my lips, by yours, my sin is purged.”
    Juliet: “Then have my lips the sin that they have took.”
    Romeo: “Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urged! Give me my sin again.”
    Juliet: “You kiss by the book.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

  • Look Away

    Count Olaf, the Grackle, has returned but has not returned his library book. Muahahaha!

  • What’s the Point?

    You’ve got a point there.

  • Blue Steel

    “I’m pretty sure there’s a lot more to life than being really, really, really, ridiculously good looking. And I plan on finding out what that is.” – Derek Zoolander

  • Flood and Fire

    “So let me make sure I understand what you are saying. Your library book fell in the toilet and to dry it out you held it over a candle and caught it on fire, and now you would like to return it?”

  • Fierce

    “Feelin’ good, lookin’ fierce. I am…Librarian.”

  • Library Emergency

    “Alert! We have an emergency situation. We are out of bookmarks! Whatever you do, do not close your books!”

  • Starling contest

    “Starling contest! Go!”
    “Wait, don’t you mean staring contest?”
    “Nope. I’m a Starling and you just blinked. I win twice!”

  • Goldfinch

    Well, yellow there.

  • Fart /färt/ verb

    *whispering “Did you know fart is in the dictionary? I just looked it up!”
    “tee hee hee”

  • OMG!

    Miss Dove volunteered to supervise the teen zone. She’s practicing her eye roll…to blend.

  • Library Life

    “If you want to grow up to be a librarian like me, you are going to have to learn a few things. You’ll need to fix the copy machine, printer, computer, tablets, 3-d printers, e-readers, and robots. You’ll need to perform puppet shows and wear costumes and funny hats. You’ll need to be able to do people’s taxes and help with applications and resumes. Have you been trained in CPR? You know your alphabet right? How about decimals?”
    “Can I just be a rocket scientist? Sounds easier.”

  • Romancing the Dove

    “Miss Dove?”
    “WHAT? I’m not doing anything.”
    “Um, I just had a question. Wait, are you reading romance novels?”
    “Maybe…How else will I know which ones to recommend?”
    “But aren’t you a children’s librarian?”
    “I’m working here!”

  • Easter Egg

    “Why did the Easter egg hide?”
    “I don’t know, why?”
    “He was a little chicken!”
    “You crack me up.”
    “Thanks, I’ve been sitting on that one.”
    “Eggshellent.”

  • Jay K. Rowling

    Look who stopped by the Bird Library! It’s world famous author Jay K. Rowling!