I don't know whether to be pleased/impressed, or disappointed. I work with a bunch of librarians, and, well, despite our welcoming demeanor--no, really, we love patrons and want to help! the stereotypes are outdated lies!--we can get a little snarky, amongst ourselves. Maybe my coworkers just don't look up? Because, surely, posting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the reference team's lunchroom is a statement of some kind, requiring some kind of response? (Librarians can also get a little defensive.) There's even a little doodled decoration on the corner of the page. And it's smack in the middle of some empty space, hardly hidden amongst a pile of other papers! And it's lopsided!



But, no, nothing, nada. It's been sitting there, peacefully, since January 4. Almost a month. No defensive notes. No question marks doodled on it. Not taken down (so, good job, there, coworkers!). Not joined by other human rights documents, to present a balanced picture of things, or anything like that. Just left alone.

How very ... passive.