Bibliography

The past three weeks have been mostly about work. Several people are sick frequently, which means more work for me. I don't know why I have managed to stay in health this long. Mostly luck, I assume. The rules for distance is stricter, since the corona virus is increasing here. The only other places I visit are grocery stores. Recently I also dared to go into a clothing store and got two pairs of pants. 

At work one of my colleagues has moved to another department and there is no replacement yet. We had an online meeting with all staff members, which was challenging, but it functioned. Since we have a new boss, there are a lot of workshops and extra information. We are asked to make plans for the library's future and things like that. Last week we had a database upgrade and there were some minor problems afterwards (if you clicked on Print Slip, the printer went crazy and didn't stop printing)... The technicians fixed it pretty quickly. 

I have visited two different libraries for meetings in real life. Another meeting was at the storage, near the compact shelves. They are not working properly. We have lots of problems with them. Often we can't open the electric shelving system at all. It's very annoying, because the students want the books placed in it.

I have started a new project. This spring a student asked for the history of our old card catalogue. That's when I realized that there is no list of printed works about this library and its history. I have started to compile such a list and it's very interesting. There are quite a few works written about our collections, staff members, library architecture and organization. Many of them I was not aware of. I have engaged some colleagues in the work with this bibliography also.

Road trip

Last Saturday my father and his girlfriend came to visit. It was time to get the birthday present I was promised back in April. We went out north on a road trip in their motor home. The destination was not revealed. The first stop was a very old and renowned inn, made famous through a 1930s movie. Remarkably, I had never been there before. We had lunch there. The portions were large and the quality of the food was high. After this we drove south through a large forested nature preserve, where the highest point in Skåne is. It's not really something to boast about, it's 212 meters high. When we were almost out of the forest there was a fallen tree blocking the road. After a detour we continued south again and arrived at a very odd café. It's out in the middle of nowhere, housed in a villa, where the interiors were in the 1950s style. The cakes were homebaked and very tasty. After this we returned to my place. The road trip was a very nice present, I must say. The next day my vistors left, after having spent the night in the motor home. 

This Tuesday I met the new library boss in the lunchroom. He said he had heard of me and it was worrying to learn that my colleagues had told him that I know everything. It's hard to live up to such a reputation. The boss seems to be a very nice guy, who already now understands the challenging task of finding space for the enormous amounts of books that arrive here every day. 

The weather is changing to a more cool and rainy kind. It's slowly getting darker also. I have exchanged the flowers in the balcony box to heather. My mother and her boyfriend are back in Borås for the winter.