Rockin' Reference with the Shelver's Curse

System went down and Superwoman gave me a point for damage control. Huzzah for a 135! I'm catching up with Mom. And Space Cadet. Long story. Stupid email attachments.

Anyway, system went down and everyone panicked, took about an hour for it to come back on - like the whole internet so everything was down including all the other libraries in our system. And it just so happened that it was my turn in the lab with the New Girl. Yes, there's a new girl - who's nickname is The New Girl, not to be confused with the New Guy. They are both awesome. And hilarious. Today she totally made my day - someone I knew came in,

I said: She's dating my cousin.
She heard: She's dating my husband.
Yes, we have a very open relationship. Totally made my day.

So, anyway, we're in the lab with no internet and we get all these reference phone calls and people upset cause they can't get online and then there's people that need to find stuff in the library with no working catalog and yeah...umm...I'm weird. Cause I find it exciting when the system goes down. I mean, that's bad cause it's down and all that and frantic and people are upset but it's cool going retro and coming up with stuff on the fly without the technology.

But, I have an advantage.

Cause I have the curse.

I call it the Shelver's Curse. Um, you get it after about a month of shelving. Cause that's really all you do. And um, yeah, it's not like a contagious thing so don't worry.

Anyway, the Shelver's Curse is that you know the call numbers for about every freaking subject in the library because you need to know where to put things. So, if someone asks,
Computers are 005's,
Encyclopedia's are 031's,
Bibles are 220's,
Finance are 330's,
True Crime 364.152-154,
Foreign languages are 400's,
Math and Science crap is 500's,
Health and exercise is about 612-620,
Car manuals 629's,
Gardens are 635,
Animals are 636,
Cookbooks start at 640 and go through about 649 which is when you'll hit the
resume books at 650.14,
after that it's knitting and sewing in the early 700's,
Comics and how to draw stuff is in the 741's-745's,
Decorating is 747's,
780's are music,
790's are sport stuff,
800's are mostly classic literature stuff and
some comedy around 817,
all the travel stuff is in the 900's,
US travel is like 917s,
917.82 or 917.822 is Nebraska central.
For some reason you get baby names at 929. No idea why.
Then you've got the US history after that in the late 900s.
And then it's all biographies from there.

No I didn't look any of that up. Yes I'm laying on my couch visualizing the shelves. It's all part of the curse. Plus I'm a nerd. Remember that.

Anyway, people came in and wanted nonfiction stuff and since the catalog was down it was pretty much us. So we rocked it with the Shelver's Curse.

And used an actual phonebook for reference calls about phone numbers. Twice. It was awesome. And when that failed I googled a number on my phone. Damage control on the fly. I'm diggin' it.

So I'm still stuck on Chuck. Stoked it's actually still on, usually when I get into a series like this it's already over. Or has like 8 seasons so it takes forever to catch up. I think this one is more recent, only like 4 seasons are so. Will get them after I finish this one.

Anyway, it's fantastic. The man they call Jayne (Firefly) plus the girl who reminds me of Penny if she were a deadly assassin (Big Bang Theory) and then this nerdy guy with a computer-tainted brain. Plus comedy. It's awesome. 9/10.

Songs of the night:
Cause I love the acapella intros. It's all about the intros. At least give them that.

"Anytime" Journey


"Dust" Augustana


Officially mellowed out, time for bed.

It actually is time for bed. Yes, I know it's super early but I have to wake up super early cause some crazy person decided it was a good idea to start a class at 8:30 on a Saturday morning. And I have to drive there. So 7AM for me. And you know how much of a morning person I am. Totally stopping for coffee like twice. Once when I leave and once when I get there.

Not sure what I should expect. Dunno if I will see the Library Goddess. Or Cool Aunt. But have class in their building yet again. They are apparently stoked for the new building cause they have windows and all that. Huzzah! I'll miss the windowless classrooms. Not. But I'm confused cause it's supposed to be in two rooms with one teacher. Or maybe there's two. I just know I have the textbook and the mission statement printed out.

Not that I don't already have it memorized anyway.

And our selection policy.

And the selection policy of a peer library.

Freaking Library Goddess with her actually relevant and helpful-in-your-job homework assignments. Although I'm still waiting to give my Zombies vs. Unicorns booktalk to some unsuspecting young adult. It it Zombiefest weekend. Yes that's a real thing. Google it. I love this town.


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