Inventory is over???? « chatter from the Library Monkey

Inventory is over????

June 29, 2006 at 10:45 am | In Adirondacks, Baseball, Books - Young Adult/Teen, Creative Writing, Detroit Tigers, Novel, librarian, small school |

Drove to School to finish up Inventory. I need to figure out what to do. The Follett software is saying I am missing 655 books, but I can’t figure out how to make it show and/or print out the titles so I can decide if they should be replaced.While that seems like a lot of missing books, from what I understand this might be the first time the John Collins Library (JCL) has been inventoried. Plus about five years ago the catalogue was automated, so I am sure a lot of books were not catalogued and lost in that process.The golf course there is flooded.

During the drive I was able to think of a few scenarios for the novel. Of course that is the easy part, the difficult part is figuring out the bigger picture. The big picture being how to end the book. I could take something traditional, like the end of the school year or (perhaps more likely) a birthday. Maybe I will start it the day after the young girls 14th birthday and end it the day she turns 15. But it is coming along okay. It’s at the easy — idea — part.I’m tired. I got home about 10 p.m. Read a little. Got to bed around mid-night and woke up at 7:30 a.m. because I wanted to listen to the local complain radio. Missing the internet. I use it for a ton of things that usually allows me to sit around. I wanted to get a book from the John Collins Library, but left it there, so I want to see if I can get it here.

Can it get any better? Swept two of the best national league teams (St. Louis & Houston). A day off today, then a trip to Pittsburgh, where the Pirates are in the middle of one of the worse seasons ever. There is a really good chance that the Tigs will be in first place at the All Star break, if not still maintaining the best record in baseball.

Perhaps because of time, I have found a few tricks in Nisus Writer Express. One of the things is the ablity to use short cuts with multiple key strokes. Like if I want a new page I can hold down the command key and type ‘b’ twice. I guess I could type out ‘new page’ if I wanted, but bb works. Also, since I have to do my interneting at the local community college, I like to take a file with a bunch of links to sites I want to check. I am able to insert a series of links with Nisus Writer Express!

What really stinks about the internet is how the price is not coming down. Now that most everyone has it, it should be around the price of a telephone $20 a month, not $40. The other pricing scale that is whacked is the longer you have it, the cheaper it should be. If I have high speed internet (or land line phone — for that matter) service for a year, it should go down in price. Most of the service cost is in installation.

The second highest expense has to be the de-installation…so why not try to avoid that.

It is Horse Show weeks in Lake Placid and when they talk about horse show, they have to mention Marty Bauman, spokesperson for the horse show. One of my crowning moments is writing a really long story about Marty. It was probably too long, but from time to time it is good to give someone a biography.

It brings up a question for me: Do you ever know your own greatness or insignificance. There are about four things I did with the paper that I thought were memorable, but who knows.