A quick reply to my application received minutes by Ms Florence Tessier, the person in charge today, to my application (Access for research – Justification of interest for 12 Months Membership…); who just rejected me.
After a quick search through her emails and a little pause to rethink her response she said:
“…that if she gives me the membership she will be in trouble with her superiors, I tried to politely argue it, asserting my position”.
Then she told me “that in this library, they don’t have natural science researchers at the same level as me (not affiliated to any universities nor research institutes).
Then she told me “that the research I am asking to do in this library (using anything in their catalogue) is not the type research she is talking about to enable me to qualify for a membership”
Then she told me “that the kind of research I am asking to do here is not the kind of research people do here”
Then she told me “THAT I DON’T FIT THE SELECTION CRITERIA”
SO I SAID
“So what is the selection criteria, can you show me where in your website I can find it, so that I can see if I can do something else to meet your criteria and qualify for a membership because I need the books on the shelf here that are ALL IN ENGLISH and I’ve only found them here, despite being a member of two other libraries… BNF and the Paris University Library, Moulins Campus, that I’ve been kicked out of without cause?”
SHE SAID
“I can use it only today”, supposedly on good will; but in that amount of time (only today without a membership) I’m supposed to read the book that I need, titled “HUMAN EVOLUTION BIOLOGY” by Michael P. Muehlenbein that is over 500 pages and at the same time a biology dictionary to assist me with the information.
Then she told me “There is no such criteria listed, the CRITERIA IS HER JUDGEMENT” (so in other words, her judgment said NO to my application); she was no willing to give me any other opportunity to jump that criteria hurdle, and as a result I concluded with, and QUITE POLITELY BUT ASSERTING MY POSITION OF NEED:
So you are actually preventing me from becoming a member of this library? “…and as a result, also preventing me from using your materials/books listed on your catalogue that I NEED (FOR STUDY AND RESEARCH), TO PASS AN ENTRY EXAM FOR MATURE AGED APPLICANT TO STUDY PYSCHOLOGY AT A UNIVERRSITY LEVEL (because the criteria is her judgment and she said NO)?”
THEN WHY DID SHE TELL ME THAT IF SHE APPROVES MY MEMBERSHIP SHE WILL GET INTROUBLE WITH HER SUPERIORS?
AND AT THE SAME TIME TELL ME THAT SHE IS IN CHARGE TODAY AND THAT THERE IS NO ONE ELSE I CAN SPEAK TO WHEN I ASKED TO SPEAK DIRECTLY WITH THE DIRECTOR, HER BOSS?
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