Maybe everyone know this already, but let me just stress how much STRESS there is for the librarians over the Minnesota Zoo Passes, available through the Museum Adventure Passes here in the twin cities.
On any given day, I probably say 5 times "If you want to get the MN Zoo pass, you have to be the first one at the door before we open." At my library, we have one pass which we set out each morning. We open our doors at 10am, it is checked out by 10:02 at the latest. If I am telling 5 people every day they have to be first in line, guess what our morning rush the Museum Pass display looks like?
My boss had to exert Solomon like wisdom one morning as two ladies arrived at the Reference Desk, each gripping one half of the pass. Their solution? The lady who didn't get the card was given the price of one admission by the other.
That seems tame compared with another library in the system...the passes are now behind the desk, as there was an actual FIGHT one morning. Good Grief.
My thoughts on this matter? Thanks to the Zoo for making this program a success. Now they should gracefully withdraw, and we should have a great big marketing campaign about the other wonderful venues available through the program. Go Bell Museum! Go Bakken!
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Hi Amy,
ReplyDeleteLove your blog, especially the name and url. I'd respond to some of your reviews but I haven't read any of those books.
I'm thinking of making a short film called "Zoo Pass" that would attempt to explore behavioral decadence. There's something unsettling about how this particular free service brings out the worst in humanity -- people seem to revert to some primitive state when they walk through those doors. Parallels with George Romero's Dawn of the Dead (where the mall shoppers are literally equated with zombies) abound...
My, wasn't that pleasant?
So long for now.