Soon at the library, we’ll be hiring three new pages. One of those positions will be the position I’m vacating come May when I become full-time. I was thinking about how long it’ll take to train them and how their training might go more smoothly if they had some handy reference cheat-sheets to carry around so that they will feel more confident about their new jobs. Therefore, as librarianship has been a hobby of mine, I wrote up a one-sheet instructional guide how to alphabetize books, CDs, magazines, and DVDs. 😀 I’m lame, I know. What most people don’t understand or know is that there’s more than one way to alphabetize a collection. In most public libraries, there are three different categories by which materials are organized: author, title, and call number (such as Dewey Decimal). That means three different systems to learn, and while each plays off the others, it’s still a daunting task for someone who has never actually tried to alphabetize a large collection. After all, questions such as how to handle spaces, punctuation, and numbers are important to answer. In this light, I wrote a guide. 🙂 I don’t know that it’ll be used or if anyone cares, but since I’ve got the day off, I figured I have to time to waste.

After this post, I’ll probably go back to typing up notes for a new book idea I’ve got (still fiction, but not fantasy-based like my Solennelle & O series). I might type up a synopsis of it on the page at some point, but I can’t see it as being anything that could ever really become popular. Fringe, I guess is a good way of describing it though there’s nothing new about the basic themes of trying to fit in and trying to find romance. Ew, it’s kind of a romance. That thought hadn’t occurred to me. I don’t tend to go for romances. Well, then again, the fantasy series is partly about romance, so I guess it just sort of happens. Regardless, it’s time to think about eating food and putting in another disc of the X-files. I still have another chapter and a half to write before finishing Book Three. It’s been a busy week! Have a great afternoon!