Spring Weeding

If you're not familiar with libraries, you're probably thinking...weeding? In a library? Uh, there aren't plants in there, are there?

Nope! Just lots of books, that were once loved and have become forgotten, torn and twisted, or just plain gross.

It's always a sad thing, weeding books. Though necessary, it feels as if you are sending away a close friend. Maybe even one that held your hand through childhood. As library staff, it's nerve-wracking to consider you may be doing the same thing to someone else's childhood friend.

I tried to do what I could before Spring Break, but this week has been a lot of catching up on tiny tasks. The last bits of mail, weeding more and more books, and starting inventory. I realized weeding before inventory=good, weeding after inventory=really bad use of time!

I'm also working on the Greenhill Goes Global displays for the library. It should be coming along soon, but there is seriously not enough hours, nor arms on my body, to seem to get everything done when I want it.