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1/5/07 17:36I've been in a cranky, cranky mood--
(1) We've been sent 8,000 books. This is wonderful! This is enough so that, even as the larger libraries start to pick off all our lovely new books with requests, we'll still have some good stuff left. However. We do not have enough space on our shelves for 8,000 new books. This results in a LOT of shifting. (Shifting= where you move some of your books over to the shelf above or the shelf below so that more books will fit on the shelf you need. At worst, we get a situation of five jam-packed shelves so that, in order to make room for one book, we have to move half a dozen books over across four shelves.
(2) Our library does not look like an open library. There's signage on the door advertising our opening date; yes, I know people don't read signs. There's enough need for people to go in and out that the boss decided not to keep the door locked; nevertheless, people keep wandering in here, asking if there are any computers, asking to get a library card. The good part of shelving books was supposed to be that you don't have to talk to anybody.
(3) Q: If a person can shelve 75 books in an hour, and shelves for 8 hours a day, how long will it take to shelve 16,000 books?
A: Why is all the vicodin gone?
(4) I don't know if I'm being overly sensitive or not thinking before I say things or what, but I feel like I'm getting in random annoying internet arguments for no reason whatsoever.
(5) Somehow I was under the incredibly naive impression that all our books would be in their proper places when we started out. Instead, I'm having to correct other people's shelving errors-- and on top of that, I think our distributor made a horrible number of processing errors.
This is not to say that it's all bad! In the last hour, one of the people from another library segued from another topic into the story of her son's goldfish's funeral, which was pretty hilarious. And I keep oohing and aahing over all our new books. They seem to have given us pretty much everything I asked for (though I don't know about the juvenile geography and science. Maybe I just missed those books.)
I think I may go on Fandango and see if I can get a Spiderman ticket for this weekend. It's very possible that going to see a movie that packed with people would turn up my crankiness rather than turn it down, but still.
(1) We've been sent 8,000 books. This is wonderful! This is enough so that, even as the larger libraries start to pick off all our lovely new books with requests, we'll still have some good stuff left. However. We do not have enough space on our shelves for 8,000 new books. This results in a LOT of shifting. (Shifting= where you move some of your books over to the shelf above or the shelf below so that more books will fit on the shelf you need. At worst, we get a situation of five jam-packed shelves so that, in order to make room for one book, we have to move half a dozen books over across four shelves.
(2) Our library does not look like an open library. There's signage on the door advertising our opening date; yes, I know people don't read signs. There's enough need for people to go in and out that the boss decided not to keep the door locked; nevertheless, people keep wandering in here, asking if there are any computers, asking to get a library card. The good part of shelving books was supposed to be that you don't have to talk to anybody.
(3) Q: If a person can shelve 75 books in an hour, and shelves for 8 hours a day, how long will it take to shelve 16,000 books?
A: Why is all the vicodin gone?
(4) I don't know if I'm being overly sensitive or not thinking before I say things or what, but I feel like I'm getting in random annoying internet arguments for no reason whatsoever.
(5) Somehow I was under the incredibly naive impression that all our books would be in their proper places when we started out. Instead, I'm having to correct other people's shelving errors-- and on top of that, I think our distributor made a horrible number of processing errors.
This is not to say that it's all bad! In the last hour, one of the people from another library segued from another topic into the story of her son's goldfish's funeral, which was pretty hilarious. And I keep oohing and aahing over all our new books. They seem to have given us pretty much everything I asked for (though I don't know about the juvenile geography and science. Maybe I just missed those books.)
I think I may go on Fandango and see if I can get a Spiderman ticket for this weekend. It's very possible that going to see a movie that packed with people would turn up my crankiness rather than turn it down, but still.