First and foremost, welcome to our readers from the United Arab Emirates! Feel free to argue, bloviate, spout off, or otherwise engage me and my readers in spirited conversation.
Finished the Spanish collection yesterday, will begin to take on the Russian collection later this week. I've been falling behind on DVD weeding and ordering and have deadlines to keep, so the things that have the most urgency will come first--namely DVD ordering from Midwest Tape, then the Bibz list, then DVD and Russian weeding. The fun never ends...
*-Ray Stevens, 1,837 Seconds of Humor, 1962.
Tuesday, June 20, 2017
Monday, June 19, 2017
Concert for Bangladesh*: weeding in el Jardin secreto, part vii
Welcome to Bangladeshi readers! Country #64 heard from!
Feel free to argue with me, agree with me, state something new and outrageous.
Continuing with weeding the Spanish language collection.
Conclusion 1: Stephen King is not popular among our Spanish-language patrons. Someone ordered the complete translated set three years ago and all but four or five titles have not moved. "Carrie" is the leader, but only 4 borrows in three years--hardly a ringing endorsement.
June 19, 2017:
Finished the Spanish language collection this morning with a flurry of items that dropped out of the system. Among the interesting titles in Spanish translation:
The Color Purple
Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters
Android Karenina (no, really)
The Portrait of Dorian Gray
and a fairly recent Nobel prize winner whose name escapes me right now.
Mopping up the paperwork for the systemless books, then on to Russian tomorrow.
Onward.
Feel free to argue with me, agree with me, state something new and outrageous.
Continuing with weeding the Spanish language collection.
Conclusion 1: Stephen King is not popular among our Spanish-language patrons. Someone ordered the complete translated set three years ago and all but four or five titles have not moved. "Carrie" is the leader, but only 4 borrows in three years--hardly a ringing endorsement.
June 19, 2017:
Finished the Spanish language collection this morning with a flurry of items that dropped out of the system. Among the interesting titles in Spanish translation:
The Color Purple
Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters
Android Karenina (no, really)
The Portrait of Dorian Gray
and a fairly recent Nobel prize winner whose name escapes me right now.
Mopping up the paperwork for the systemless books, then on to Russian tomorrow.
Onward.
Thursday, June 1, 2017
Japanese Dances*: Weeding in the Secret Garden, part vi
Slogging through Spanish-title weeding.
Interesting finds:
Old Man and the Sea and For Whom the Bell Tolls
Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
50 Shades of Grey
That's it for today--just three shelves :-). Discard rate for Spanish language titles running about 40% at this point (thru H's). I think the lower rate as opposed to Italian is reflected in the increase in Spanish speaking population here in the city.
Amusing note: The door to the breakroom from where I'm working is at the end of a short corridor, next to the Asian language collection. I opened the door from the breakroom to find a young, pretty, Asian girl sitting on the floor reading one of our books. She was a little embarrassed but I assured her it was okay. Besides, the stack of books she was checking out meant my job might be a little easier when I get to the Asian collection. But--I have to finish Spanish and Russian first.
Onward.
*Composition for orchestra by Bernard Rogers, 1933.
Interesting finds:
Old Man and the Sea and For Whom the Bell Tolls
Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
50 Shades of Grey
That's it for today--just three shelves :-). Discard rate for Spanish language titles running about 40% at this point (thru H's). I think the lower rate as opposed to Italian is reflected in the increase in Spanish speaking population here in the city.
Amusing note: The door to the breakroom from where I'm working is at the end of a short corridor, next to the Asian language collection. I opened the door from the breakroom to find a young, pretty, Asian girl sitting on the floor reading one of our books. She was a little embarrassed but I assured her it was okay. Besides, the stack of books she was checking out meant my job might be a little easier when I get to the Asian collection. But--I have to finish Spanish and Russian first.
Onward.
*Composition for orchestra by Bernard Rogers, 1933.
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