[Cadaverous Pallor]

Not much dating drama in my library world. There may be some among the pages. They're mostly college students. As it is they get a lot of time in the sorting room to talk and listen to music. I think that encourages laziness more than intrigue, though. I haven't heard of anyone getting involved with coworkers - most of them have relationships in the outside world.

We're about 60/40 women to men overall, so that's not why. In the departments other than pages, we tend to be older and married. In my very subjective opinion, the library attracts mostly stable, settled people. We do get a lot of younger girls as clerks that eventually quit due to moving to follow their husband's job or pregnancy. It's a mostly conservative lot.

As for the Office style antics - most of that evaporated once the real job began. We scrape out moments to smile at each other, never mind gossip. (Though if a cute guy walks in to get a card, the talk goes on for days among us girls.)