I'm currently going through the children's nonfiction at work, weeding, checking for missing books and tidying up call numbers to match current practice. I've wanted to do this for the longest time.

Right now I'm working in the 200s (Religion, link goes to dewey.info, an online resource for Dewey classification). My mental dialogue has gone ( Read more... )

custardpringle has finally posted the Lord Peter Wimsey casefic she's been teasing me with for ages. It involves Hilary Thorpe and St. George and it's just brilliant.

A Jolly Kind of Detective Game (139335 words) by
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( Newbery )

I've just got the go ahead to start looking at new software so that we can redesign our website to launch when our new building opens ( Read more... )

For those of you relatively new to this lj, I lock only three types of posts - posts with questionable content (downloads), posts with questionable content (smut), and posts about work that I'd rather not have my coworkers come across accidentally. This is the third type ( Read more... )

I walked in this morning to find four advanced reader copies of upcoming books waiting for me.

Among those were:

Enchanted Glass by Diana Wynne Jones (standalone)

and

The Summer Before by Ann M. Martin (Prequel to The Baby-Sitters Club

*bounces muchly*

If people are curious, the other two ARCs were:

Kristy's Great Idea by Ann M. Martin (and ( Read more... )

Aka, the Newbery, Caldecott, etc.

These were culled from twitter, and are posted as is, so that people can see the list quickly. Note that they didn't announce Honor Books on Twitter. The press release will be up at the YMA page soon ( Read more... )

As a result of the Classic Who friending meme, I have many bright, shiny new friends to add to my long list of other bright, shiny friends (even if they're not new ( Read more... )

didn't bother to schedule clerks to replace the one we just lost. We just had one of our librarian's leave for a job in the schools and last Friday was her last day. The boss is on vacation ( Read more... )

Hasn't been completely terrible, but I'm glad it's over ( Read more... )