Much of a reason for the concern about being lost? Did you find it?
@flowerbug , I worked in the library for one semester. It was a pleasure
. So much better than the semester of museum work. Oh gosh, I was bored ... bored ... bored.
Steve
who has also agreed to disposing of one book when adding another to the shelves. it's also big reason for me to make regular use of the library 
i grew up in a library... Mom volunteered for the first township library that started in a closet at the township offices. eventually it was upgraded to a temporary metal trailer and then became an actual building. lo this many years later it seems to be doing ok. she also organised the church library. in both cases i read through both of those as a kid, several times, even if i didn't understand the words often the pictures were interesting. my trips to the city library in downtown Saginaw back then often had me coming home with bags of books. some i could not read well, but i tried, i may have even had them under my pillow...
as a teen i volunteered in the high school library. i wasn't always a good teen, but that was a bit of a refuge. that also gave me experience with slide and movie projectors.
i did not do much in college at the library other than study/research, but it was always a dangerous place. i'd go in for work on one thing and get distracted in the aisles by other things. hours later... at a time when i had no hours. somehow i made it back from the jungles of South America to the great white north.
the local library, i was there for almost nine years, small town library, first group i worked with was excellent. a lot of depth and diversity. regime change eventually took out all but one of the people with experience. i held on as long as i could. not much diversity now. i use it but miss what used to be...
i am not reading anything at the moment. which is why i managed to make progress on projects yesterday. i sorted and shredded old papers and filled up a six gallon bucket (well packed) and have a pile of papers sitting near the shredder to go for today. i also made progress on studying computer parts and picking a few. i hope to be ready by Monday evening to actually place an order. wish me luck.
beautiful morning, sun shining on ice/frost coated trees. i hope it warms up my car well enough to melt off the ice coating. it is a lot of work to scrape the windows free. it really would have made sense 20yrs ago to buy a cover for it. being outside all the time has taken a large toll on the paint, trim, interior. the mice are taking their toll too...
as for books/reading and science fiction i've always liked the large scale broad vision types of books. a more recent author i enjoy is Alastair Reynolds. and more recently Ann Leckie.
non-fiction, history, war, plagues, nature, etc. all work for me. as too just plain old books about dirt. i am at danger to read about anything at any time if left to my own schedule/devices. including old numbers off computer chips and box car numbers off old slides from the 70s. somewhere around here i may still have the rolling stock registry...
