Chapter One. Librarianity for the new you

Picture this.


Our hero, AWC, arrived at the library only slightly late, ready for work. Unfortunately, she could not make it over to the book cart due to the rows and rows of yet-to-be-sorted nuggets of literary wisdom (yeah, books), lying on the floor directly in her path. "I thought we were getting a sub while I was gone!" She exclaimed to the kindhearted librarian who at the time was standing behind the desk to AWC's left.

"Well," she replied, smiling sadly, "we all did what we could to put them away, when we had time..."

AWC made it to the book cart, which was filled with books, audiobooks, videos, and DVDs. Out of habit, AWC would always put away the DVDs first. She wheeled the cart over to the DVD section. Somebody had apparently had a jolly good time taking DVDs from the shelves and cleverly shoving them back precisely where they did not belong. It was a very attractive artistic display, AWC thought to herself. I mean, who puts DVDs on a shelf vertically anymore? It's so lovely and modern to stack them horizontally ON TOP of other, less fashionable vertically shelved ones. That way there's a marvelous collection of perpendicular lines, with fantastic ninety-degree angles.

AWC was forced to correct them though, because unfortunately, the library is not a place for art. It's a place of learning.

She was examining the back of a DVD when another librarian, who looked very stressed out, and very much in need of some hot tea, hurriedly walked over. "Please, there isn't time to look at the backs today," she said most frantically, gesturing towards the rows of books who were peacefully sleeping on the floor.

AWC dramatically held up the copy of NARUTO: VOLUME 1. "But I want this one!"

"Well, ok," the librarian said, "but today we need to hurry!"

AWC sighed and continued to work. The DVDs were laughing at her. "Cut it out!" she hissed at them, putting in her headphones to silence them.

And the Fratellis took her stress away