Day 3

[jenett]

- Spend morning running around madly dealing with getting a new invoice for something Title related and getting it over to the office. Yay, done.

- Got into conversation at lunch, discovered another British folk rock fan, and also showed him how to solve one of his current problems through JSTOR

- Decided to ditch a bunch of our biographical dictionaries, and have requested a trial of one of Gale's products (the Biography Resource Center) online as a suitable replacement. (Our reference biography sets all date from the late 80s or early 90s, and are fairly white-male centered, so, really, new stuff nice.)

- Weeded a whole bunch of stuff out of the early 900s because we're still having a space crunch. Sent email to our Latin teachers and French teachers going "Let me buy you books on your subjects that were published this century!" (Most of the stuff weeded - *4* shelves of it - are late 80s and early 90s.

One notable title:

"Berlin is a city of [some number of million I forget right now.] Divided through the center by a 4.5 meter wall...."

Yeah. This is why we weed. Really.

- wrote a maintainance request saying "When I walk by part of my shelving, I hear fast flowing water in the wall. Just thought you might like to know." (It appears to be flowing and not coming through the wall in any way I can discern, but yeah. Not a sound you expect on an interior wall.)

I go back now to weeding and moving the 920s around appropriately.

Comments

[jenett]

We're on the second floor, so the good news is that it's probably not pooling anywhere near us. (And it might just be some changes from our rain garden installation last year, and it's the first time I've been standing in the right place to hear it when we've had a heavy enough rain. But yeah, in general, one reports things like that.)