SWL 2

The library closes at 12:00am.
They announce this at 11:30pm, 11:45pm, and 11:55pm.
Students know it closes.
If someone, like say a grad student has been scurrying for the last hour, and prints at 11:56pm, they should be able to get that document.
11:55pm last announcement.
11:55 pm The student librarian (which is a good idea only in theory) who talked to his friends loudly for the 4 hours you have been there typing and printng, typing and printing, turns off the printer and computer hooked up to it unbenownced to you.
11:55pm you finish the last document you need for you 7:00am class, and print it.
Walk over to computer to scan your ID to get you document, and the computer is off.
At 11:57pm you bring it to the attention of the student librarian, amicably.
The response is "Well, I turned it off." (he should be in MENSA) and looks at you like you are asking for his first born child. You proceed to explain that you could not have possibly worked any faster, gotten here any earlier, and need that document for class at 7:00am, about 2 hours before the library even opens tomorrow, and still, only the look.

11:59pm the circulation librarian steps in, (thank God) You proceed to explain AGAIN about 4 hours, going fast, and needing the document for class at 7:00am, before the library even opens tomorrow, and NOW the response is, "Maam, its past 12:00."

Well, of course it is NOW that you have been arguing with the student librarian and now you for at least 5 minutes. The librarians are now gathering around me in a circle, waiting. So, you explained AGAIN. The response was "they (as in the vague and ominous they) want us out the door at 12."

If the student librarian had waited, you could have been printed, logged off and been out the door before 12:00am.

If he had turned it on at 11:57pm, let it boot, let you reprint it, you could be walking out the door right now, at 12:05am.

But no, now its 12:05am, and your only defense is "they want us out the door at 12." (Well, that is shot now anyway.) So, you reiterate, "I need that document to teach a class tomorrow at 7:00 am. I could not have gone any faster, I only finished it at 11:55pm. I have been here for 4 hours working very fast, and the student guy turned the printer off early."

Just looks, verbal response seems unlikely. you look back, incredulously. Still no verbal response. Did they hear you? You follow up your statement with a "So.....?" nothing.
You follow up the nothing with a "So, you're not going to let me print?"
and still "well, they want us out at 12."

Okay, fine, but you are taking your sweet time packing up, probably about as long as it would take a high speed printer to print 101 pages. Then "safely removing" your flashdrive. Then logging off. Then staring down anyone left in the room. Then asking for the name of the head librarian. Guess what he's getting? Oh, and the president gets another one.

What do you do about the class? Who knows? see if theres a Fedex kinkos that does 24 hours?
That or be unprepared for class... way to go library, you've done it again.