According to Spell Check, 'children's' is Not a Word
So right now I'm doing this huge ass project that I totally hate and is eating up hours and hours of my life (I think I was bitching about this before but I'm not sure). What it involves right now is helping the Children's Aid Society organize their library. Right now everything is just kinda there.
I'm currently going through their inventory spreadsheet of all the books and marking whether or not the books are fiction or nonfiction. Some of them are easy: All about Tornadoes is non-fiction, Cinderella is fiction. Some of the books are a little less clear, and some of them are just plain wtf. There is a book called "I like jam." No joke. I'm pretty sure it's fiction, but the idea that someone would actually write a book about how much they love jam is just too lulzy to let go, so I have to look it up.
Oh, and then there was the "Stamp Collecting for Canadian Kids." Why would you have that in a library in freakin Singapore?
I'm also having a few problems of the theological nature. There's prayers, which- much as it makes my inner organized-religion-hating self writhe in agony- go in the non-fiction section, that's easy enough. Bibles, *sigh* okay, to the non-fiction section. Just think of it as a really specific sort of history book.
But what the fuck do I do with the "Good Samaritan?" Is that considered a fictional tale with a moral, or is it part of the whole Bible package? I'm having the same trouble with the bigfoot book. Some people think Bigfoot is real, and thus put it in the non-fiction section. Others, who think it's all a hoax, would put it in the fiction section.
There are also rather amusing misspellings of titles like "Hope on Pop", which I then read every time I glance at is as "Hope on Pope". Make of that what you will.
tl;dr Audrey is doing work for once and is bored the hell out of her mind.
I'm currently going through their inventory spreadsheet of all the books and marking whether or not the books are fiction or nonfiction. Some of them are easy: All about Tornadoes is non-fiction, Cinderella is fiction. Some of the books are a little less clear, and some of them are just plain wtf. There is a book called "I like jam." No joke. I'm pretty sure it's fiction, but the idea that someone would actually write a book about how much they love jam is just too lulzy to let go, so I have to look it up.
Oh, and then there was the "Stamp Collecting for Canadian Kids." Why would you have that in a library in freakin Singapore?
I'm also having a few problems of the theological nature. There's prayers, which- much as it makes my inner organized-religion-hating self writhe in agony- go in the non-fiction section, that's easy enough. Bibles, *sigh* okay, to the non-fiction section. Just think of it as a really specific sort of history book.
But what the fuck do I do with the "Good Samaritan?" Is that considered a fictional tale with a moral, or is it part of the whole Bible package? I'm having the same trouble with the bigfoot book. Some people think Bigfoot is real, and thus put it in the non-fiction section. Others, who think it's all a hoax, would put it in the fiction section.
There are also rather amusing misspellings of titles like "Hope on Pop", which I then read every time I glance at is as "Hope on Pope". Make of that what you will.
tl;dr Audrey is doing work for once and is bored the hell out of her mind.