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THIS makes me very happy.
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THIS makes me very happy.
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FB3X Drabble Cascade #140 – “Chronicle”
Nov. 24th, 2015 08:24 pm
FB3X Drabble Cascades
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FB3X Drabble Cascade #140 – “Chronicle”
Trinity College Library – Dublin Ireland
Who knows what might get stirred up walking thru certain sections of the Library, esp. if you make any noise doing so.
Title: Beware the Tomes (Paranormal, PG)
Author: charisstoma
Word count: 500
The quiet in the place was almost that of a sepulcher, a place that guarded secrets or the thoughts of the dead. The Library had been around for a long time, early 1700s; he’d read the information on the website about it; and it was filled with 200,000 of the oldest books. Connor almost feared that the sound of his shoes would disturb what he sensed lurking amongst those rows of heavily laden shelves. The place was practically deserted; in fact he’d seen none since entering it.
Along the nave he came to the area of oldest books where the tome he needed resided and turned to walk between the two towering lines of shelves. That first step was dreadful. Immediately the books started whispering to him, snatches of information drifting through his mind, tempting him to choose them. Each step presented a different set of whispers, different images, sapping his attention.
“Finally,” the words formed in his head, “I wasn’t sure that you would make it.”( Read more... )
Today it rained books
May. 26th, 2015 07:44 pmLast Friday was the last day to check out books.
Today was the day that ALL books were to be returned.
Add that I put in order 9 shelves of books that are grouped normally by a color designation indicating the 2 lowest reading levels, that I shelved almost all of the books that came in today, there's still one shelf on the book cart to do, and that I finally took time to choke down a lunch I was too tired to eat at 2:30.... Yeah I'm tired.
Started off the day with an Advil because I knew it was going to be bad and it's best to have one in your system before you do something that will possibly cause inflammation of muscles. Took two more before I ate lunch. Still am not hungry. Have drunk a ton of water er... 50 oz since I got home. Texas is not the only thing that's going to float away.
Who knows how many books will be returning tomorrow. Will have to run the reports first thing tomorrow, *coughs* after checking in my own book *coughs*, and send them out to the powers that be so we can collect outstanding Library books or their cost.
Will need to put in order 9 more shelves of color coded books, shelve the books or put in order the early chapter books, put in order the early/easy fiction books AND then go hunt up books that students say they HAVE RETURNED.... Some students just slip the book back on the shelf bypassing checking it in. Of course they also bypass checking books out too. I am but one person.
Just ran overdues which won't include those that were due today.
Reports dropped from 26 pages to 14 pages for one of the schools alone and I know most of the books that came in weren't overdue books.
Shelved a shit load of books that normally are too difficult for the ESL school as well.
Tomorrow we shall see.
My poor sick Librarian sat at the desk checking in books, going through them for underlining and translations and erasing them. The desk to her right was stacks on stacks of books and the desk to her right had at least 4 stacks plus the book drop full.
Brought a cart over and put the books she'd been able to check in on it and put those away. Then came over and she left to help frantic students trying to write their projects and I finished the checking in and shelved almost all of those books.
We had a busy day and my Librarian actually told me I should eat at one point.
Way to organize a shelf of non-fiction books:
Separate them by their call number into 100s, 200s, 300s etc. then break the 100s into 110s, 120s,130s and so on. From there it's the 110, 111,112.. Don't worry about the second line of the call number (that's usually the first three letters of the author's surname). That's close enough to locate a book to tell if it has indeed been returned.
With our ESL it's easier to color code reading levels and tell them to just get them back on the shelf where that color is if they don't want it. I'm lucky if they don't put them upside down, backwards, shoved inside another book or my favorite laid flat across the top of the other books. That's if they don't take the book and leave it some place else in the Library.
And that is why I haven't written my Drabble Cascade. My mind is dead. Also there's thunder happening... AGAIN. *whimpers*
Oh, and I had to organize my son's health insurance, which we left too long after his birthday. He aged out of his father's policy coverage. *SIGHS* At least the insurance person would let me make the decisions regarding his policy. Asperger's. And besides I'm going to be the one paying for it. Oh darn. I'm going to have to claim him as my dependent on my next year's tax form. We'll see how that goes.
Today was the day that ALL books were to be returned.
Add that I put in order 9 shelves of books that are grouped normally by a color designation indicating the 2 lowest reading levels, that I shelved almost all of the books that came in today, there's still one shelf on the book cart to do, and that I finally took time to choke down a lunch I was too tired to eat at 2:30.... Yeah I'm tired.
Started off the day with an Advil because I knew it was going to be bad and it's best to have one in your system before you do something that will possibly cause inflammation of muscles. Took two more before I ate lunch. Still am not hungry. Have drunk a ton of water er... 50 oz since I got home. Texas is not the only thing that's going to float away.
Who knows how many books will be returning tomorrow. Will have to run the reports first thing tomorrow, *coughs* after checking in my own book *coughs*, and send them out to the powers that be so we can collect outstanding Library books or their cost.
Will need to put in order 9 more shelves of color coded books, shelve the books or put in order the early chapter books, put in order the early/easy fiction books AND then go hunt up books that students say they HAVE RETURNED.... Some students just slip the book back on the shelf bypassing checking it in. Of course they also bypass checking books out too. I am but one person.
Just ran overdues which won't include those that were due today.
Reports dropped from 26 pages to 14 pages for one of the schools alone and I know most of the books that came in weren't overdue books.
Shelved a shit load of books that normally are too difficult for the ESL school as well.
Tomorrow we shall see.
My poor sick Librarian sat at the desk checking in books, going through them for underlining and translations and erasing them. The desk to her right was stacks on stacks of books and the desk to her right had at least 4 stacks plus the book drop full.
Brought a cart over and put the books she'd been able to check in on it and put those away. Then came over and she left to help frantic students trying to write their projects and I finished the checking in and shelved almost all of those books.
We had a busy day and my Librarian actually told me I should eat at one point.
Way to organize a shelf of non-fiction books:
Separate them by their call number into 100s, 200s, 300s etc. then break the 100s into 110s, 120s,130s and so on. From there it's the 110, 111,112.. Don't worry about the second line of the call number (that's usually the first three letters of the author's surname). That's close enough to locate a book to tell if it has indeed been returned.
With our ESL it's easier to color code reading levels and tell them to just get them back on the shelf where that color is if they don't want it. I'm lucky if they don't put them upside down, backwards, shoved inside another book or my favorite laid flat across the top of the other books. That's if they don't take the book and leave it some place else in the Library.
And that is why I haven't written my Drabble Cascade. My mind is dead. Also there's thunder happening... AGAIN. *whimpers*
Oh, and I had to organize my son's health insurance, which we left too long after his birthday. He aged out of his father's policy coverage. *SIGHS* At least the insurance person would let me make the decisions regarding his policy. Asperger's. And besides I'm going to be the one paying for it. Oh darn. I'm going to have to claim him as my dependent on my next year's tax form. We'll see how that goes.
Meep posted a prompt.
Jul. 11th, 2014 10:28 pmTitle: Love Between the Sheets
Author: charisstoma
Word count: 957
Prompt provided by Mee_eep: 11. Leave a thoughtful review on a post-it note in a book you really loved.
Someone had left a post-it note inside the mystery book Mike had picked up for reading. They’d stuck it in at the very end where only someone who’d read all the way through the book or had skipped to the end would find it.
“If you liked this book then you might like Three Bedrooms, One Corpse by Charlaine Harris”
He had liked the mystery book he’d read but he didn’t need anybody to search out titles for him. Besides if he liked the book he’d read, it was more than likely that he’d want to exhaust that author’s published list of books before seeking another. He was obsessive like that.( Read more... )
Author: charisstoma
Word count: 957
Prompt provided by Mee_eep: 11. Leave a thoughtful review on a post-it note in a book you really loved.
Someone had left a post-it note inside the mystery book Mike had picked up for reading. They’d stuck it in at the very end where only someone who’d read all the way through the book or had skipped to the end would find it.
“If you liked this book then you might like Three Bedrooms, One Corpse by Charlaine Harris”
He had liked the mystery book he’d read but he didn’t need anybody to search out titles for him. Besides if he liked the book he’d read, it was more than likely that he’d want to exhaust that author’s published list of books before seeking another. He was obsessive like that.( Read more... )
