What your books go through, before you find them on the shelf

Check out this great flickr slide show of all the steps it takes to get a book on the shelves at the Hatcher Graduate Library, University of Michigan.
It’s not quite the same process we have, but if you’ve wondered why there are always so many stacks of books “sitting” around this will be enlightening.

On a completely different topic — Yes, I did go to my reunion, although there were whimpers of dissent all the way to the ticket window. I had a wonderful time, and it was great to see some of my old friends. As one friend said, it was more than a high school reunion, because so many of us had met in nursery school. Curiously enough, no one was surprised that I was a librarian, was I a librarian-in-training that long ago and didn’t realize it?