Library Etiquette

I don't understand this behaviour.  In my experience, library staff prefer people to use the self-service machines, because it means they don't get interrupted from any other jobs they might be doing.  Quite a few library staff that I know, too, are the kind of people I'd judge to be on the spectrum!  At my local library, there are two female staff members who don't make eye contact or even look up at the person they're dealing with.  I did some voluntary work there once, and most of the staff said they preferred the 'downstairs' duties (mainly clerical and computer-based, plus repairing book jackets, cataloguing, etc) because it took them off of the public desk and meant they could be working alone.  The job has always appealed to me in that respect and I've had many interviews over the years - but never managed to get a job.

I don't understand this behaviour.  In my experience, library staff prefer people to use the self-service machines, because it means they don't get interrupted from any other jobs they might be doing.  Quite a few library staff that I know, too, are the kind of people I'd judge to be on the spectrum!  At my local library, there are two female staff members who don't make eye contact or even look up at the person they're dealing with.  I did some voluntary work there once, and most of the staff said they preferred the 'downstairs' duties (mainly clerical and computer-based, plus repairing book jackets, cataloguing, etc) because it took them off of the public desk and meant they could be working alone.  The job has always appealed to me in that respect and I've had many interviews over the years - but never managed to get a job.