Posted by alexandra_k on May 10, 2018, at 0:19:20
In reply to Re: library books, posted by baseball55 on May 7, 2018, at 16:55:41
I used to work in the university library as a student shelver. I got to know the books pretty well - the ones that were most frequently borrowed / back on the trolley for reshelving.
Got to the point where I could find books faster from my motor map of the library than from looking up their call number and trying to find their location that way.
Then I'd get to go to a different university because of a conference or simliar and I'd love walking their stacks. Seeing what sections had ballooned (because staff worked on a particular area) or had shrunk.
It was a good way of getting a sense of the interests of the faculty over the history of the department. Since the department was responsible for ordering the books.
Anyway... All that's largely impossible now.
Books are being vanished all the time, over here. Put away in 'storage' apparently. Somewhere where you need a ladder to access them and cannot browse the shelves.
Then they vanish from the online record and poof. You never knew it existed.
Some people have online access to wonderful search engines. Some of the people some of the time...
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