Boring library talk
So on Thursday, we had a Shelvers meeting, and while my clearest memory of it was the bowl of Roses chocolates, I distinctly remember the boss mentioning that we're understaffed, that more books are coming in than we can reasonably put away in X hours. We even have to keep a tally, now, of approximately how many books we shelve per hour so someone further up the food chain can make statistics happen and prove we're all slow.
I mean, I would have thought you'd only have to look at the shelves to find out, but what would I know?
Anyway, two days after this "we need more shelvers to cope!" talk, they rearrange the childrens area. They remove most of the bins, where we just throw all the books on cirtain topics. Now they're just shelves, so we have to spend even longer getting the books in order. I'm guessing that this'll add half an hour at least to how long it takes to clear a full returns shelf in childrens. THIS IS VALUBLE FICTION SHELVING TIME, MORONS.
Um. Guys. If we're that overworked, wouldn't it make more sense to put in more bins, not take them away? It's not like kids pay huge amounts of attention to the dewey decimal system anyway, they're just like "Dude, where are the dinosaurs!?"
*sigh*
I mean, I would have thought you'd only have to look at the shelves to find out, but what would I know?
Anyway, two days after this "we need more shelvers to cope!" talk, they rearrange the childrens area. They remove most of the bins, where we just throw all the books on cirtain topics. Now they're just shelves, so we have to spend even longer getting the books in order. I'm guessing that this'll add half an hour at least to how long it takes to clear a full returns shelf in childrens. THIS IS VALUBLE FICTION SHELVING TIME, MORONS.
Um. Guys. If we're that overworked, wouldn't it make more sense to put in more bins, not take them away? It's not like kids pay huge amounts of attention to the dewey decimal system anyway, they're just like "Dude, where are the dinosaurs!?"
*sigh*