Welcome to my readers in Estonia heard from this week! As always feel free to comment, agree, disagree, throw brownies, etc.
I was handed a new project today: Weeding world language titles! Happy Happy Joy Joy!!!
I made the mistake of telling my supervisor I wasn't busy enough, so now I have the task of going through the foreign language collection, title by title, and checking for condition, circulation numbers, and value to the collection at large. Never mind my last French class was during the first term of the Reagan administration. The collection also houses titles in Spanish, Italian, Russian, German, Chinese, Japanese, and Vietnamese.
<<<Putting on "patience of Job" hat...
My supervisor says that it's something I can work on a shelf at a time, and that's good, because I'm imagining that this will not be a quick and easy process. I'll keep you posted.
Onward...
UPDATE: I've finished most of the German-language collection and of the ~200 books in that collection, only three have circulated in the past twelve months. The others that passed muster for weeding were either by major authors (Hermann Hesse), Nobel prize winners, or whose authors were prolific or members of an important writer's group. I'm guessing that I've weeded a little over 50% of the total titles. 3/27/2017
*--Dan Fogelberg, Windows and Walls, 1984.
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