Festive Office Environment
A human interest story brought to you by the good people of the ASR project.
[Preliminary note: No books were hurt in the making of this blogpost.]
Working on the ASR project can sometimes lead to doing odd things around the library. For example, yesterday we were given the task of shifting the left over books from the book sale into a central location. The purpose of this was to free up space for the books we are withdrawing in our "Reduce to One Best Copy" project. Those withdrawals are going to an upcoming book sale. In the past, the books have been piled high around our desks and other places in Technical Services until they could be moved into the book sale room. (See picture of Kei with her withdrawals.)
Now that the book sale room is in order, Kei doesn’t have to fear being crushed in an avalanche of books. (Thanks Emily!)
The point of this post, though, is to show off pictures of my newly decorated cubicle, which has been variously referred to as my “office,” “cubicle,” “cube,” and “cubbie” (circa kindergarten). All of the materials we shifted will be slowly making their way to some book trucks in the front lobby of the Reg, where they will be free for the taking. Yesterday, I took some of the homeless material in myself. It can now be admired by anyone who makes their way to the cataloging section of JRL 170. On to the pictures!
First up is Emily’s “office,” which was my inspiration.
Here are the before and after pictures of my cubicle.
Before: (baren wasteland)
After: (festive playground)
Going from right to left, top to bottom, the first “piece” is a 2006 map of
Pour un Homme French “parfumeur” advertisement. This ad was taken from the back of an Air France long distance flights (itinéraires long-courriers) information booklet. As was the map just below it, featuring the Mer de Chine Meridionale, the Mer de Chine Orientale, and the Mer du Japon. Due to a disturbing lack of bibliographic information in this booklet, we can only date its publication to some time after 1984.
Shanghai Street Guide from 1985, pp.48-49. Some of the landmarks featured on this page are a tobacco factory, a bicycle plant, a textile plant, a rubber products plant, another bicycle plant, and an electric meter plant. So there you have it, pages 48 through 49.
Finally, we have the crown jewels of my cubicle paraphernalia. A reprint of a 1566 map of
posted by sam.m @ 10:37 AM
1 Comments:
How I've missed your writing.
That's a lot of information to share from just your cubbie; I could never do a similar post with mine. None of my decorations have anything to do with the ASR project, actually, since I started putting stuff up before we did any major work. You have excellent learning organization skills! (See Chris's definition.)
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