How can you read if you dont know how it works?

How do millions of people function (arguably) well in this world without logic?

• PIN number is redundant.

• Creating realistic scenarios is the way to write a good book that people might actually learn something from. These idiots apparently don't understand that. The author responded with a quick lesson, though.

• Banning a book makes it more popular.

• There is always something to do.

Creating displays:

• Put the taller items in the back.
• If you put up multiple copies (say 2) of an item (like a book), you only have to refill the display half as often!!
• Grouping like items is efficient.
• Standing up trade paperbacks is a bad idea.

Did you say bitch?

I must say, sometimes working in the library really is a hoot. Yesterday, a customer asked me if I went home and shouted after having to talk quietly all day. Sorry to disappoint, dear sir, but I actually talk like this all the time. That is part of the reason I started working in a library in the first place.

Today I helped an older lady who is hard of hearing. She was looking for a book that is titled "Skinny Bitch." She comes up to me and attempts to whisper that she is looking for a diet book that has something to do with "bitches." Only her whisper is quite loud and everyone in the building turned to look!

Shelving logic

Shelving logic. Does that mean "how do you shelve logic?" No, silly... it's how you use logic to shelve most efficiently. I suppose some people like running back and forth across the library and shelving one book at a time. They must simply not care if things don't get accomplished. This has been bugging me for a long time, so I made a quick illustration of how one might see books waiting to be shelved in the back room of a library.

Each letter represents a section of the library in which those books need to be shelved. Now, say you have a small cart and you can choose whichever of these items you want to put on the cart and take out to shelve. What do you choose? Do you just randomly grab as many books as will fit on your cart? Do you take the two A sections from the third cart? No!!! What the hell is wrong with people?? You take all of the A's from all of the carts. Or if you're in a different kind of mood, take the B's and C's from all the carts. That way you can shelve them all at the same time without randomly walking back and forth across the library! Why do people want to be inefficient? Gheez!

What I want for my career

In case you didn't know, I decided that I want to be a cataloger when I grow up. I guess that means in a couple years. Hey, I'll be almost 30. Some people make such a big deal about that age- I don't really care except that I find it kinda funny that age 30 is when I will "grow up." If I have to be a regular librarian, though, I figured out the most awesome job. I was listening to Point of Inquiry (the podcast of the Center for Inquiry), as I often do, and they had someone on talking about secular humanism. I thought it would be cool to look more into it, and it turns out they are housed within the Center for Inquiry. Not to downplay secular humanism or anything, but that isn't the topic at hand. While I was at the site, the thought popped into my head that they probably have a library. The Center for Inquiry Libraries house several large collections. Rockin'!! So, if I have to be a regular librarian, I would want to work either there or at the American Atheist headquarters (not sure how big their library is at the moment). Hey, could I then join the American Theological Library Association? LOL Wouldn't that be a trip?