Shelvage!

Apr. 19th, 2007 12:32 pm
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...So I went to the Lit & Phil, as heretofore mentioned; and it's full of little flyers and big notices saying that it'll be closed on April 30th. Closed! Panic! Why?

I asked the librarian, whom we adore. Kay says they're getting new wooden shelving fitted, to replace all the extra metal units they've had to squeeze in as the collection has expanded. So - being as I am, ever on the qui vive - I ask what they're doing with the old metal shelving.

Kay says they were just going to dump it, and why, would I like some?

So I have measured up there, and come home and measured up here; and of course none of their units will properly fit any of my niches, but I didn't expect that, this house is way too irregular; but with interesting and novel rearrangements, and much discarding of old and badly-put-together improvised shelving, I can find room for lots of new shelves. Which will make my books very happy, and me too: I do like the idea of being reshelved by a library.

I may have to have shelving parties.That'll be fun for everyone.

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Date: 2007-04-19 03:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mizkit.livejournal.com
I think we got rid of something on the order of 1500-2000 books to make ours fit on the shelves we had. That was pretty traumatizing. Over the course of three or five years we got rid of about three thousand books, we think. Some of them weren't so painful, because they were duplicates, but we spent a long long time slowly culling series and books that we reluctantly admitted to ourselves we were never going to read again, this making owning them not entirely necessary, and (more importantly) making *moving* them wholly unnecessary and to be avoided if at all possible.

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