Tuesday, December 4, 2007

library shelver

situated in calgary our acess to visual culture is often limited to that of the library; books, resources and knowledge that makes our understanding of the "real thing" more accuate. but what? gasp! i hear whispers that the library bookshelves are cluttered, disorganized. that the general acess to this knowledge is often frustrating and aggrivating. i hope to give some understanding to this situation by letting all of those whispereres out there know that shelving books is a thankless job, it doesn't help when you have students who hide books in different sections and then ask if you have reorganized their stashed away books, storing them like bears prepairing for hibernation. their voices often hostile and arogent as if the shelver has done something wrong in keeping the library in order. the duey decimal system takes charge in the library and with the influx of new books ariving weekly there just isn't the same amount of space. so be kind place books in a pile, have patience and remember i am only one person.

ali christensen

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