Elderly male patron approaches reference desk.
He places a paperback novel on my desk: Gaywyck by Vincent Virga and addresses me:
I have a complaint to make.
You see the barcode here, is placed in a way so that you can't see the face of the second person. It would be better to know the gender here. That's all. Thank you.
OK!? I very kindly wrote a note for the patron and affixed it to the cover, setting it aside, smiling and nodding (but inside I was full of the giggles). You see there were a number of other clues that may have lead the library patron to fully comprehend the subject matter of this particular literary choice...
The title, or the cover... I mean there are other features besides the face that are almost obscenely male...! And just a few lines from the back of the book...
Robert - "his soft blond hair, emerald eyes, and porcelain skin," "a seventeen year old sent to catalog a mansion's vast library..."
Donough - "Master of Gaywyck" is the "epitome of elegance and sophistication..."
Another librarian observed that the barcode was placed further to the left than usual. She suspected the catalogers were having a little fun with it!
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