At month end we do the usual paperwork things of taking inventory, totaling hours worked, rearranging or whatever.
The mix of books keeps changing depending on who is donating what. Right now we have a noticeable quantity of business books, humor and classics.
One interesting book is the autobiography of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935.) Gilman was a writer and lecturer. She was the great-niece of Henry Ward Beecher and his sister Harriett Beecher Stowe. As a writer she was perhaps best known as the the author of the Yellow Wallpaper. In that book, she mostly describes the bedroom. What is most unique about the book is the viewpoint that she gives. It is as if she can see everything in the bedroom but the occupant cannot see her. The rest of the house almost becomes an attachment to the bedroom. She wrote the book in an objective way as if no one would be reading it. In fact she is bringing all of the readers into the bedroom.
There is a connection between Charlotte Perkins Gilman and a new way that the non-fiction books in your book room are arranged. There are the usual categories of subject such as business, self-help, crafts, health, cooking, animals and nature, sports, or whatever. You may notice some books in the subject area that, by the Dewey and other systems, would not be there. By looking ahead at what the readers of that category may be thinking we are adding books that will fit that type of thinking. It is as if an observer is in the book room that cannot be seen by the book buyer. Like in the bedroom of Gilman's book. The observer is saying "Oh you like x. You might like to read this book."
If you like what we are trying to do please say something. Likewise if you do not like it. I think people may actually do this with their own books.
David Sneed
The mix of books keeps changing depending on who is donating what. Right now we have a noticeable quantity of business books, humor and classics.
There is a connection between Charlotte Perkins Gilman and a new way that the non-fiction books in your book room are arranged. There are the usual categories of subject such as business, self-help, crafts, health, cooking, animals and nature, sports, or whatever. You may notice some books in the subject area that, by the Dewey and other systems, would not be there. By looking ahead at what the readers of that category may be thinking we are adding books that will fit that type of thinking. It is as if an observer is in the book room that cannot be seen by the book buyer. Like in the bedroom of Gilman's book. The observer is saying "Oh you like x. You might like to read this book."
If you like what we are trying to do please say something. Likewise if you do not like it. I think people may actually do this with their own books.
David Sneed
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