Oh, the joys...

[daemonluna]

I definitely, emphatically have a cold. (In fact, if it hasn't moved out of my sinuses by tomorrow with all the pain that involves, I will upgrade that to sinus infection, and get myself down to the doctor's. It's not nearly as bad as yesterday, but that could just be that I smartened up and started taking the decongestants.) However. troutkitty is feeling much better, which is Very Good and I've mostly stopped worrying and fussing over her.

I got to buy books today. Whee! As in go through a warehouse and fill up several shopping carts. They're all for a brand-squeaky-new school library. So far, I have most of the paperback fiction and some of the picture books. Still to go: hardcover fiction (to start with, it will be mostly paperback, but that's okay because they're all getting catalogued and interfiled, hc and pb alike and I will get more as I go), some more picture books, and almost all the non-fiction. Plus the reference section.

I have a copy of the province's recommended core collection (which may or may not be anything resembling recent), and a suggested list coming from one of the vendors, both of which I can tweak at will. What I may or may not have is shelving (basic shelving's been ordered but I don't know if it's shown up), or anything else in the library. A desk. A computer. (Both should show up at some point.) Bulletin boards. Posters. Pencils. Thurday, I will be able to go over to the school and get my key and take a look.

I have a slew of open tabs, including, yes, more SGA fic. But the cold medicine is starting to work and I am sleepy, and queenzulu has escaped the temptation to stay up and read all night, at least not in any way she can blame on me. Heh.

Comments

[daemonluna.livejournal.com]

It was pretty cool! The really awesome part was though it's a huge warehouse-size building, the only way I'd go way overbudget buying just K-5 fiction paperbacks would be if I got one of absolutely everything. And I know the material pretty well, so I pretty much got to go up and down the aisles and get anything I wanted or needed! (Provided it was appropriate for the collection, etc, and that I got a good balance of stuff, age, interest, quality, and reading-level wise.)

But one of the drawbacks of putting together a whole library with brand new books is that you do miss out on some really good old stuff. I mean, sure, an awful lot of it is still in print (children's fiction stays in print longer than most anything else, even if it's only in paperback) or back into print. (The Borrowers. Anne of Green Gables. True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle. Diana Wynne Jones. John Bellairs.) But... (mourns) The Children of Green Knowe!

[mockingspike.livejournal.com]

I don't suppose you could make use of used books? A few hundred of them?

[daemonluna.livejournal.com]

Quite probably, if you have any good kids' books in decent condition. And if they're ones I've got, I know several other schools that could use them. (Particularily, Kim's high school and Susan's elementary.) Can I come pick through 'em?

[mockingspike.livejournal.com]

Aughhh! Curse your fiendish librarian wiles!

*Tries to clean up, is overcome by the enormity of the task, and runs out of the house screaming, tormented by visions of scrap paper encroaching on every horizontal surface and providing platforms for dust bunnies to hippity-hop all over his vulnerable flesh*