There hasn't been much written here recently. The spring is very busy at work and the flea market season has started.
In April my birthday was celebrated in modesty. My father and his girlfriend treated me to dinner at an American style diner. The hamburger was very good. Easter was spent at the summerhouse with my mother, her boyfriend, my sister and niece. We had a nice time playing badminton and going on some excursions in the nearby area. We saw art exhibits in several places and also some small fleamarkets. I also got a haircut.
At work all my colleagues are now physically present at the library. This has meant that there are never any clean glasses or mugs in the kitchen, the fruit basket gets emptied very fast and you have to wait for the elevators quite a lot. I didn't really appreciate the absense of people the past two years until just now.
We have received more books from two different libraries in the network. Their staff did the transportation and shelving, so we only had to open the doors and give advice. We have also had a moving company move a collection of journals at the storage for two weeks. In the beginning it went well but later they sent new staff who didn't understand the instructions. There were about 200 shelf meters placed in the wrong order because of this.
One of the cataloguers told me he had discovered that there are 130 000 items missing from the library catalogue. These items exist in the national catalogue but have for unknown reason been removed from our local database. When or how is unclear. The technicians have started to do renewed transfers, so we will get our books back both in reality and in the database.
The general situation in the world is affecting also my library. We have been asked to make plans for a scenario we hope will never come true. There is an air raid shelter in the basement. We have reorganized a few things so the card catalogue which was there is now elsewhere. The janitors have cleared out some other things, so the room can now be used for the intended purpose. There will not be space for all the staff members but there is also another larger shelter which can be used.
May 1st the departments of the library were changed. Our boss wanted to reorganize everything. We were not happy about the process because we felt forgotten (we actually were forgotten in several of the stages of this discussion). Now we have had a few meetings with our new department boss and she is overwhelmed by all the details of our work day.
