I've been noticing more and more stories about libraries trying to change their image by abandoning the shhh. No more shushing patrons in those libraries.
Our library adopted that policy a few years ago. We didn't drop the shhh all together, but we modified it to fit our customers.
Now, we say, Shhhit, Fool. Let me show you how to do that. It seems to apply to almost any situation, from using the copier to tearing pages out of the legal forms books.
We've branded all of our signage with the "Shhhit, Fool" logo. Let us know what you think!
Wait, did I say this was our official library policy? If by "official" I mean "secret" and "that I just made up," then yeah, that's what I said.
