{"id":12158,"date":"2009-06-09T14:54:53","date_gmt":"2009-06-09T18:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2009\/06\/09\/12158.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T18:52:04","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T23:52:04","slug":"four-shelf-feet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2009\/06\/09\/four-shelf-feet\/","title":{"rendered":"four shelf-feet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So, the conversation went like this, more or less:\n<blockquote><p><strong>Library Director<\/strong>: There he is.\n<p><strong>YHB<\/strong>: Er&#8230;\n<p><strong>Library Director<\/strong>: Do you want an OED?\n<p><strong>YHB<\/strong>: &#8230; you mean, want an OED?\n<p><strong>Library Director<\/strong>: Yeah.\n<p><strong>YHB<\/strong>: &#8230; you mean, to have?\n<p><strong>Library Director<\/strong>: Yeah, an OED. I thought you might want it.\n<p><strong>YHB<\/strong>: &#8230; the whole&#8230;\n<p><strong>Library Director<\/strong>: The whole set.\n<p><strong>YHB<\/strong>: &#8230;yes?\n<p><strong>Library Director<\/strong>: It&#8217;s on this cart. If you want a more recent one, there&#8217;s one at [another place in the University], you can have whichever you want.\n<p><strong>YHB<\/strong>: No, this is fine. This is great. Thank you.\n<p><strong>Library Director<\/strong>: I thought you might want it.\n<p><strong>YHB<\/strong>: Yes. Yes, I do.<\/blockquote>\n<p>So. I have seventeen volumes (including the 1961 Supplement and the four volumes of the supplement completed in 1986) of somewhat dusty OED sitting on a cart behind my desk, waiting for the opportune moment to begin the journey home to the house. Where it will&#8230; er&#8230; well, if I have to buy another bookshelf, I will. Right?\n<p>Sometimes, working in a library rocks. Within certain very loose conceptualizations of <I>rocking<\/i> that involve very old, somewhat dusty reference books. Actually, that happens pretty frequently.\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Which Your Humble Blogger politely asks that none of you mention this to my Best Reader, who I probably should have asked first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[198],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libraries"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18788,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12158\/revisions\/18788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}