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Who says librarians do not work? We are in the middle of the next big task, moving all the periodicals and putting them into a new arrangement. I could go into detail telling you how it was decided this move was necessary. I could bore you to death talking about call numbers, cutter numbers, alphabetical order, etc., but I won't. To make a long story short we are now ignoring the call and cutter numbers and moving all the magazines into alphabetical order. How many are there? I'm not sure, let's just say there are about 285 feet of shelving, filled with periodicals and everyone of them has to be moved. See the evidence>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Joyce, Doris where are you now that we need you? Let those doctors find their own stuff for a few days.
After two days of picking up and moving more than I should, I have been condemned to stay at the circulation desk today until my elbows and back feel more like normal. Since that is enough to bore me totally to tears, I am planning to work on a little 'secret' project which I think will improve the database without too much labor. Those are probably famous last words. But I will let you know later if my plan is a success or not. At least it will not make anything get less useful and I hope it will make things much better.
If you know me well you know I don't like extremely cold weather and I feel uncomfortable unless the temperature is hovering around 65+. Well, we had three such hot days that I was delighted yesterday with the cool that returned after the thunder/hail storm. Our temperatures were in the 90's F and everyone was dragging around. Even the delegation from Samford University in Alabama looked a little weary. They were the hottest days in Prague in May for over 230 years. That was just remarkable! Then in the middle of the day Greg called to say Debbie had phoned him with the news that there was a terrific and quite terrible thunderstorm downtown where she was shopping. We rushed to tell students to unplug their PC's in case of a direct strike. In less than 5 minutes we were in the midst of a good thunderstorm with hail bouncing all over the ground. Unfortunately the beautiful yellow iris flowers which had just gotten into full bloom outside our dorm were cut to shreds. Lots of leaves, etc. all over the campus. I heard there were some felled trees on our path though the Sarka Valley. I am not surprised. The hail here was the size of marbles (nothing spectacular) but Debbie said it was golf ball size downtown and two guests said it was quite large and showed their hands in a golf ball sized shape. They had been outside at the castle. I would have hated to have been outside on the tallest hill in town during a lightning storm. Everyone was safe but we had had a good surprise. Now the air is crisp like fall and more like the norm in this rather northern city. The weather here is as unpredictable as in Maryland.
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