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They don’t teach you everything you need to know in library school. For example, I never imagined that I’d be responsible, as library director, for a 60,000 square foot facility with “quirks.”

One of the more puzzling of our facilities issues is the inexplicable never-ending automatic-shut-off faucet located in the women’s rest room. The faucets are supposed to turn on when hands are waved beneath them, dispensing an appropriate amount of water before shutting down. For reasons that even the consulting plumbers have not been able to figure out, one of the faucets is over eager, turning on in response to someone walking by, and even (this is one of our theories) turning on in response to sun coming in through the window.

We have been told that there is no way to exorcise the ghost, and that the only solution is to replace all of the faucets with the old fashioned kind, that you actually have to turn on and off. I am not quite ready to go there, but it certainly is disappointing that we are wasting water, particularly during the Green Cup Challenge.