There was a time, shortly after I graduated from my MLIS program, where I seriously thought about putting together a presentation about the importance of the public washrooms in libraries – from making the entire library as a welcoming space for the widest variety of people to being a great way to promote programs to a captive audience, to including cutting edge technologies and innovations.
I never did pull it all together but I ended up bookmarking a lot of sites and downloading a lot of photos that would form a solid foundation for my presentation (which are still out there on the Internet if you know where to look – and no, I’m not going to provide links!)
The news that Regina’s Science Centre has been recognized for transforming one set of washrooms to give the sense of being in a traditional Saskatchewan outhouse is another story that would’ve gone on my bookmark list for sure!
(No word if a crescent moon is cut into the doors of the stalls or if people are required to use old Sears catalogues as TP though!) 🙂
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Sears catalogues will be getting hard to find now.
If you ever do that presentation, let me know!
At this rate, I’ll probably finish it when I’m retired then make speaking about public washrooms at library conferences my second career! 😉