F1 Mania has continued to grip our household as Matthew frightens everybody else off the road - still loads of 10 grid penalties and disqualifications but we do now have a 12th and a 16th to our name. Matthew even got a pole position in qualifying but he had so many grid penalties he ended up back in 24th. Worse still, he has been relegated to HRT (Hispania Racing Team as opposed to Hormone Replacement Therapy) - the worse team on the grid.
The start of the week continued to be frantic with readers trying to get their books for Christmas though by Wednesday afternoon, things finally quietened down as readers became resigned to the fact that they may have left things abit too late for their Christmas books. Unfortunately we did get a small minority of readers who rang up to chase books that they had only ordered the day before and couldn't accept that Christmas does actually slow the post down. We also made sure that we cleared our in-tray ready for next year. Luckily the majority of the enquiries were just requests for print Talking Book lists. Unluckily, it was the week where it was the hunt for a photocopier that actually worked. I spent the majority of Wednesday having to keep dismantling the photocopier to rescue bits of paper that seem to get stuck in every place imagined.
The last few days gave me the opportunity to have a real good go at catching up with the customer requests. Claire Tomalin's biography on Charles Dickens has now fit 11 requests while we're gathering requests for Martina Cole's The Faithless as a rate of knots. More dilemma as ISIS will be doing this so we would have to buy this in.
We were going to have our Reader Services Team book selection meeting on Wednesday morning but thankfully we didn't get the infamous Mastersheet (list of titles to select from) back in time. Unfortunately, we're going to have to do it in the first week we're back. Something to look forward as it's the one thing that causes the most arguments in our Team. We also couldn't agree on what subject to have for collection development, one person wanted war but not WW1 or WW2, somebody else wanted black history while we had also received some feedback from a customer about the lack of books on Feminism in the library. We've gone for a compromise of picking 2 titles in each to start with and if we end up with a good pile, carry on for February. Fortunately it was quiet on Friday so I had a good attempt to look for some suitable titles. I also had a look in the old now defunct cassette library to see if there were some suitable titles for digitalisation and found some Andrea Dworkin and Germaine Greer in there. This job took longer than anticipated and it looks like I'm going to be continuing with this on my first day back at work.
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