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This list is based on shelvability, not content.

Also: Ask a library shelver anything.

>> No.817965

Where are critiques of biographies shelved?

>> No.817969

Why do 600s & 700s suck?

>> No.817970

Do librarians actually DO anything?

>> No.817984

>300's
>high tier

>> No.818001

>>817965
I wouldn't know. We don't need to memorize the Dewey system, but I can rattle off the basic subjects of each number set just from shelving.

>>817969
600's has all the health/diet books, which are impossible to shelve and have the highest traffic out of all the other sections. And cookbooks. Fuck.
700's has knitting guides - thin goddamn books filling up shelves of space - and GIGANTIC ART BOOKS which are also impossible to shelve.

>>817970
Out of all the people working at my library, the reference librarians do the most shit. All the circ librarians think they're hot shit, but their jobs are actually less intensive than the shelvers. The reference librarians, though, have to deal with the most patrons and do the most work - finding and looking up books for patrons, etc.

>> No.818007

>>817984

Hey, all the books there are usually hardcover, thick, and get enough traffic to keep the shelves roomy. Once you get to the 370's though... that place is a war zone.

>> No.818010

>>818001
judging based on how difficult it is for you to restock them

cool thread sis

>> No.818011

What is this place you call a library?

>> No.818035

How did you get your job?

Do you steal books? If so, how?

>> No.818034

>>818010

Hey, I said I wasn't judging on content. I've used 600's, 700's, and 000's more than 300's and 800's. Doesn't mean I like shelving them more tho.

>> No.818038

>>818035

Why would anyone steal a library book? It's free.

>> No.818050

>>818038
To keep that book to themselves.

>> No.818052

Which State/County do you work for?

>> No.818074

>>818035

My library has 12 shelvers total. Every year there's graduating seniors who leave open spots when they go to college. I applied and got in in August of 2008 (I'm leaving mid-August this year when I go to college, so no underageB&), my mother was already working there in another department, so that likely increased my chances of being hired.

Best thing to do is ask and see if they have any student positions open and fill out a card. Lots of people overlook the library as an employer because most of the time the people they work with are crochety old women.

I've never run into a book that I've wanted so much I could steal. But if I were to steal one, I'd just take one off of the shelves of donations we keep in the back room that aren't labeled or electronically tagged.

>> No.818078

>>818052

I work in the Milwaukee County library system in Wisconsin. I won't say which branch, though - this is 4chan after all.

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818119

When using the first-person "they" to refer to a person where the gender is not known and/or is irrelevant (i.e. "an author"), shouldn't the reflexive pronoun be "themself" instead of what we use, "themselves", since it's singular, not plural?

>> No.818122

>>818119

What the fuck that was supposed to be its own thread. I hate you 4chan.

>> No.818133

You've listed what the duties of each position is but what is the hierarchy in your library like, who's the king?

>> No.818220

>>818133

For my workdays, it goes:

(highest)
Circulation Librarians
Reference Librarians
Student Shelvers
(lowest)

But, all of us answer to the Director of Circulation, but she usually works during the day, and most student hours are on the 5-9 shift, so we don't see her often except at the beginning of our shift if we need to organize something with our hours or vacations.

Above the director of Circ, though, there's a lot of sections that I know very little about. There's a whole section for the Children's Library programs, and one for Tech Services (entering new books into the system, repairing old ones, etc.)

But beyond that, everyone's under the Library Director - who I'm actually on pretty good terms on, even if the Director of Circ may not like me as much. Job security, I has it.