So, I have these two shelving units at work. They basically run my life. On a normal week you can see me using my rolling step stool numerous times to shift material around and keep things organized. I sometimes find myself shifting things I have just moved into a different spot just because it's organized better that way (or because it looks better, if I have more space).
I thought it might be interesting to take a few pictures of my shelves to show how our library handles processing, and the interesting stuff I have in this week. My shelves are a little crammed lately due to procrastination on my part in sending out rural material.
When material comes in, our admin date stamps it and puts it onto my "Enter into Genie" shelf. I then sort through this material and decide where it goes next. Books get placed onto my "to catalogue" shelf and wait patiently for me to get to them. Serials (journals, looseleafs, etc.) get entered quite quickly and then move on to the library with only a date stamp.
After I catalogue an item, it gets placed in the "Catalogued (waiting for proofing)" shelf, then moves on to "Waiting for labels". Depending on how busy I or the librarians are things can stay in any one of these steps for a while. Eventually they end up in the Regina library collection or on my "Rural shipping" shelves (yes, plural).
As I said, I have procrastinated a little in sending out rural material. The reasoning behind this is because often I process one rural book at a time and it's very cumbersome to send out only one book at a time. So I often wait until material piles up a bit to send it out.
What ended up happening this time was material started piling up then several new boxes of books arrived. Furthermore, a few other projects within the office ended up taking up more of everyone's time. Eventually my shelves will empty a little. Enough for me to make them look clean before the big "December" order arrives and the shelves become full once again!
As you can see from my pictures, some of the rural books have spilled out onto a book cart because they were taking up too much space. Hopefully they get sent out soon (I packed a box yesterday, I swear!) but our office is currently pretty busy.
Something that came in this week which I find quite interesting is old appeal case law reports from the early 1900's. They are mostly in mint condition and will replace some of the volumes in our collection. They are quite pretty to look at and we all know exactly what old books smell like (heaven to some librarians/techs). So pretty awesome add to our collection overall.
Our shiny new publication (Queen Bench Rules Annotated or Big Red Binder) is also on my "Waiting for labels" shelf so our new fourth edition will soon be in our collection! Our patrons have been waiting and calling for the QBRA for a long time and will soon be able to use our new edition.
I have to say, making this post was really annoying. I really hate how blogger manipulates pictures. They generally don't appear where you want them to and text doesn't adapt around pictures very well. /rant
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