I love you madly madly Madam Librarian!

( A little bit of movie stuff, and not much boring news )

Friday, January 12, 2007
I have a job! A real one! With timesheets and payrolls and official-sounding things! I’m the new Bibliographer for the Classics Department reading room. I have already started a notebook entitled "Classics Reading Room Notes, or, Chronicles of a Local Biblioprotective Deity". I will do stuff like re-shelve books, type card catalog cards (yes real cards!) with a real typewriter, yell at people for bringing in food and drink if I catch them at it, and occasionally take out the trash.

Does anybody know of any cleaning products that are relatively safe to use around books? (The cleaning staff probably hasn’t been in there in years. The dust bunnies are obviously dangerous mutants.) How about where I can find a detailed chemical explanation of the damage done to books by the presence of food? (Besides attracting rodents and insects, I mean.) The more it has to do with pH changes the better (yes, I am evil. I want to see my victims’ eyes glaze over with boredom and complete, terrified awe). (Yes, I also like parentheses.)

My first mission: to ascertain the whereabouts of one errant A. Walde and J.B. Hoffmann, “Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch”, Vol. 1. I am excited beyond all reason.

I love you madly madly Madam Librarian!

( A little bit of movie stuff, and not much boring news )

Friday, January 12, 2007
I have a job! A real one! With timesheets and payrolls and official-sounding things! I’m the new Bibliographer for the Classics Department reading room. I have already started a notebook entitled "Classics Reading Room Notes, or, Chronicles of a Local Biblioprotective Deity". I will do stuff like re-shelve books, type card catalog cards (yes real cards!) with a real typewriter, yell at people for bringing in food and drink if I catch them at it, and occasionally take out the trash.

Does anybody know of any cleaning products that are relatively safe to use around books? (The cleaning staff probably hasn’t been in there in years. The dust bunnies are obviously dangerous mutants.) How about where I can find a detailed chemical explanation of the damage done to books by the presence of food? (Besides attracting rodents and insects, I mean.) The more it has to do with pH changes the better (yes, I am evil. I want to see my victims’ eyes glaze over with boredom and complete, terrified awe). (Yes, I also like parentheses.)

My first mission: to ascertain the whereabouts of one errant A. Walde and J.B. Hoffmann, “Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch”, Vol. 1. I am excited beyond all reason.