I wonder how many slips contain traces of fetcher DNA... I for one certainly consider my mouth a third hand in matters of book-monkiness, carrying 5+ books and ripping slips for the next additions. Praps they can clone us n future years from the paper, when digital has gone down the pan.
I'd like that.
Monday, February 28, 2011
Friday, February 25, 2011
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Not Bloody Likely.
There tend to be funny book titles that come up occasionally. Example: 'No Name,' which I fetched today and is actually a book entitled 'No Name.' Though just the other day we got a slip that said under 'title': Not Bloody Likely. We thought, there's a funny name for a book, and it turns out it IS a funny name for a book because it doesn't exist.
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Fred
So, there's this book. The biggest, heaviest book we are required to fetch. Its real subject is the Virgin Mary or somesuch, but it has been affectionately named Fred for its special status. Pretty cool.
Only on occasion Fred will fall off the top shelf and knock you unconscious.
Only on occasion Fred will fall off the top shelf and knock you unconscious.
big, but not Fred
Monday, February 21, 2011
Fetch!
Job title: Book Fetcher
Job: fetching books
How quaint, I hear you say! Just-what-it-says-on-the-tin! Oh yes, the job would be nice n' easy IF the books did not have names like 3555.e.f.200-1, and live in rooms called GBX1, PP8, 6243-pez-0. And sometimes you go to room GBX1 to find periodical 3499.r.2001.z and, lo and behold, it s not there. It is in overflow in some other unknown part of the building. Or being reshelved, or already taken out, or so new it hasn't got there yet. Or reserved (I'm reserved, I know these things.)
It's all very confusing, and leaves me sometimes running round in the manner of an infant lost in the supermarket, only with sinister, moving shelves and aisles named in code (rather than, say, 'Fresh Fruit.') But my real fear is the Tower.
I have been up in the Tower once so far, and it's nice, if you like that sort of thing. But the puzzling, nay dangerous thing is that you need a key, not to get in, but to get OUT. So if you go up without a key, there is the possibility of getting trapped in there for eons or whenever someone next needs a book from the same floor of the Tower (eons.)
I have very short hair. I am worried.
Job: fetching books
How quaint, I hear you say! Just-what-it-says-on-the-tin! Oh yes, the job would be nice n' easy IF the books did not have names like 3555.e.f.200-1, and live in rooms called GBX1, PP8, 6243-pez-0. And sometimes you go to room GBX1 to find periodical 3499.r.2001.z and, lo and behold, it s not there. It is in overflow in some other unknown part of the building. Or being reshelved, or already taken out, or so new it hasn't got there yet. Or reserved (I'm reserved, I know these things.)
It's all very confusing, and leaves me sometimes running round in the manner of an infant lost in the supermarket, only with sinister, moving shelves and aisles named in code (rather than, say, 'Fresh Fruit.') But my real fear is the Tower.
I have been up in the Tower once so far, and it's nice, if you like that sort of thing. But the puzzling, nay dangerous thing is that you need a key, not to get in, but to get OUT. So if you go up without a key, there is the possibility of getting trapped in there for eons or whenever someone next needs a book from the same floor of the Tower (eons.)
I have very short hair. I am worried.
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