What a bad blogger I am!!!

I am so sorry - I have been so busy Christmas shopping that I havent been able to update my blog lately! I am sure you forgive me....please?  I went over to Harold Wood Library the other day - I was on the hunt for new books!  Everybody wants new books on the shelves and I know for a fact that Havering put huge numbers out every week - but I was kind of curious as to how they got there.....so I thought I would try and track some down - here is me looking for them!

And this is the large trolley of brand new books I found.  I was chatting to Kim about how the books arrived and the whole processes around them getting on the shelves - and she told me that the ones here are special ones!  Most of the books that come into our libraries are ordered from one or two companies who send all the books straight through to the library that they will spend their time at - they used to come into one library and then be processed and sent around to all the libraries.  Now this is all done automatically and the libraries receive their books direct from the suppliers.  However, some books don't arrive like that - some are special!  These books might be special requests by library users or sometimes special requests by staff for projects or somesuch.  Not many books are ordered like this (it works out more expensive) so these books really are special!

This one here was very interesting - all about Christmas Cookies and their Pets - most fascinating....who knew there was a book on this!  It didnt have many pictures in it - but I think I look kind of intellectual reading a book without any pictures!

Kim has lots of parts of a large job to do and she has to handle lots of paperwork - so I thought I would help her doing her filing.  Her files are much neater than Josh's Mum's files I can tell you!

But Josh's Mum's files have never tried to eat me!  Who knew working in a library could be this dangerous - I thought that all library people did was sit and read new books all day!

Monkey Monkey x