24. library love.

my friend ashley sent me the following reader's digest story today:

Check Out a Romance
I met my husband while I was working in a science library. He came in every week to read the latest journals and eventually decided to take out the librarian instead of the books. After a year and a half of dating, he showed up at the library and started rummaging through my desk. I asked what he was looking for, but he didn’t answer. Finally he unearthed one of the rubber stamps I used to identify reference books. “Since I couldn’t find the right engagement ring,” he said, “this will have to do,” and he firmly stamped my hand. Across my knuckles, in capital letters, it read “NOT FOR CIRCULATION.” – Contributed by Ruth E. Chodrow

(from here http://www.rd.com/family/11-funny-valentines-day-jokes/)

16. via camel.

“After eating candies there remains nothing. But after reading a book you will have it in your head.”

-Dashdondog Jamba, author, poet, and founder of Mongolia's mobile library

i purchased several of his books while in UB, including when will the mobile library come?, a children's book about the travels he and his family make to bring books to young people in the countryside.

you can read more about his literacy efforts here.

11. weeding, two.

in december i was assigned to some of the 900s for weeding.
this was a bit more fun to browse, and i checked a few titles out along the way (but not these).

1. "from susan b. anthony to xena":

2. the shrutes?:

3. and just to test my emotional limits:

at least they can find good homes at the book sale.

03. weeding, one.

i may not be cataloging strange books anymore at my current library, but i do get a monthly weeding list. our policy is to generally discard things that haven't circulated in over year (with some exceptions).
i chose to document only the ones that appeared ridiculous. i really can't speak to the content of these particular items, and there are certainly people who enjoy these titles.


with that said, first on jc's chopping block (also the best possible section for me to weed because i have no emotional attachment to the content):

adult science fiction/fantasy 

1. because knives are for sharing:

2. it is 2012:

3. if princess leia was also a sim:

4. i'm afraid to see what the non-prodigal troll looks like:

5. more like mother of knives (am i right, people?):

 and as a bonus:

01. you say it's your birthday.

welcome back. i fell out of posting about the year 2-6 after returning from mongolia. i'm also bad at keeping in touch with people on a regular basis, so this might help.
a lot of changes since last january 7th: a new job, new state, new home, new $15 eyeglasses.
as my friend robin wrote in the card she sent me, this is my first full year as a "real" adult (the card had bananas on it, so it's pretty authoritative).
 it's strange, i very sincerely thought i was never going to find anything i liked doing, that i would spend my life in jobs that i hated, being generally unhappy for roughly 40 hours per week. i don't know why working in a library didn't occur to me until after i was already done with college, but i'm glad to have found it and am so grateful to have the job i do now. it may be far away from most people i know, but it sure feels like the right place for this moment, for this twenty-seventh year.

but i still wish we were all having cake together tonight.