Dec. 10th, 2002 03:27 pm
Unfinished sympathy
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muckefuckI set off a little while ago with a stack of records for books in Africana my student couldn't find in my hand and a confident smirk on my face.
I returned just now, humbled, disgusted, and with increased sympathy for the poor girl.
The Africana collection is out of space. It has been for years now. Everyone laments this, no one has come up with a solution. Still, that's no excuse for the awful disorder of those stacks. Yes, I understand that, in the absence of sufficient shelving, they have to push book trucks into service. The book trucks don't have to be poorly-labelled and scattered about, however, and the books on them out of order. Among other things, I was looking for a brightly-coloured coffee table book that must've cost us a fortune. The attendant took me to the three places it could legitimately be and then concluded it must not be shelved in that collection after all. Gaaa!
I think the next time I receive notification of a problem piece from that collection, I'll save everyone a lot of time and preëmptively declare it "Missing".
I returned just now, humbled, disgusted, and with increased sympathy for the poor girl.
The Africana collection is out of space. It has been for years now. Everyone laments this, no one has come up with a solution. Still, that's no excuse for the awful disorder of those stacks. Yes, I understand that, in the absence of sufficient shelving, they have to push book trucks into service. The book trucks don't have to be poorly-labelled and scattered about, however, and the books on them out of order. Among other things, I was looking for a brightly-coloured coffee table book that must've cost us a fortune. The attendant took me to the three places it could legitimately be and then concluded it must not be shelved in that collection after all. Gaaa!
I think the next time I receive notification of a problem piece from that collection, I'll save everyone a lot of time and preëmptively declare it "Missing".
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