MY GOD THERE IS NO END TO THEM

[bloodyrosemccoy]

Have managed to finagle out a couple of long extra shifts this week. I am beginning to suspect that there is such a thing as too much time shelving books. (I told my coworker about Kobo Abe's concept of shoveling sand, and she reacted with marked enthusiasm. "THAT IS EXACTLY MY LIFE.")

Anyway, so while I'm furiously digging my way out from yet another picture book explosion,* y'all are welcome to check out torn_world's Fifth Muse Fusion. Me, I'm going to go get my machete for these books. And if that doesn't work, I'm gonna start using it on patrons.


*And incidentally feeding my raging fancrush on Tomie dePaola OH MY GOD EVERY BOOK MAKES ME LOVE HIM MORE. We library nerds are weird. Accept this.

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[narnian-dreamer.livejournal.com]

At the school library, where kids browse without parents, I just try to keep the picture books in the right letter, bonus points if an author's books are together. Beyond that, I've accepted there will never be order.

At least not without prohibiting K-2 students from taking out their own books, which I am against.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the picture books are aimed more or less at the right letters, and the kids' nonfic is aimed kind of toward a similar subject. (The books on dinosaurs, as far as I can tell, belong strewn across the floor.)

K-2? Man, if only people around here learned by third grade how not to dump books and DVDs all over everything!