to be a bit taken back by this librarian?

[macdoodle]

So we pop into the local library after school (to get food waste bags) but dd2 wants to get some books and do some drawing at the large table in the kids area.
So we are sat at the end of a large table seating 10, dd drawing quietly. There is no one else in this area at all.
When a librarian arrives and asks us to "move on" as she has a reading group. I look around the empty room and ask if she can sit quietly and finish her drawing.
She looks disapproving and says humph well it starts in 5 mins.
So I get up and move Dd2 to the bank of computer monitors with the pens. There is now one child sat at the large table.
Why did she have to move us so abruptly, surely we could have finished and move if they'd needed the chairs desperately.
I am sat here feeling a bit cross and awkward now while she sits with one child at the huge table and we are squished by the computers.

Weird, why couldn't your daughter have been in the group too? yes, librarian was a bit odd.

I don't get her attitude. We're all encouraged to use our local libraries. Some people have no library any more. As for the 'move on' comment, that's just pig ignorant. She's no asset to the library. I would speak to the manager.

Go and move back, say with a bright smile "plenty of room for all of us here and DC can hear your lovely story too now, thanks." Innocent grin.

I can see where she's coming from but she could have gone about it more politlely. I work in a library. Our book groups are age specific (7-11, & 11-14 and are drop in's so you don't know how many people are going to turn up!

'Not humiliating the public' is the most important lesson librarians, drs receptionists and paediatric therapists should learn. People avoid libraries for fear of some prat like that.