{"id":14416,"date":"2013-02-21T17:17:49","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T22:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2013\/02\/21\/14416.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T19:05:01","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T00:05:01","slug":"happy-on-the-shelf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2013\/02\/21\/happy-on-the-shelf\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy on the Shelf"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>None of the QKs are currently checked out.\n<p>The library that employs me, being an academic library (and not being a specialty library) uses the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/catdir\/cpso\/lcco\/\">Library of Congress classification system<\/a>. Y&#8217;all are familiar with it? The call &#8220;number&#8221; is alphanumeric, beginning with a letter for a general subject and often another letter for the sub-subject and sometimes (but not often) a third letter for sub-sub-sub-ject. Anyway, Q is science, and QK is botany. And none of our botany books are out. Not one of them. Zilch.\n<p>Not that we have a lot of botany books. Five hundred-odd. We don&#8217;t have a big botany program, and the sciences are more journal oriented now anyway, I&#8217;m told. Still: no botany books currently checked out. Or missing, for that matter. They are all there, just sitting on the shelves. In fact, the last time someone took out a botany book was in November. It came back, on time, not renewed, in December. 72 days and counting.\n<p>Of the thousand or so books in QL&#8212;zoology&#8212;two are currently checked out. One of those is checked out to the head of public services here; I&#8217;m figuring that since it&#8217;s an 1833 publication, it&#8217;s checked out to him for some sort of display or demonstration purpose. Or, I suppose, just because it&#8217;s cool, which would totally count. The other is Aristotle on the movement of animals. That&#8217;s checked out by an actual instructor. In the philosophy department. So <i>that<\/i>&#8217;s all right.\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Which there aren&#8217;t any QMs out either, but those are human anatomy books, and almost all the non-reference ones are in R anyway.<\/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-14416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libraries"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14416","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=14416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16716,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14416\/revisions\/16716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}