{"id":8633,"date":"2014-05-07T00:01:30","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T04:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=8633"},"modified":"2014-05-01T15:30:37","modified_gmt":"2014-05-01T19:30:37","slug":"little-really-little-things-that-drive-you-crazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/little-really-little-things-that-drive-you-crazy\/","title":{"rendered":"Little (Really Little!) Things That Drive You Crazy"},"content":{"rendered":"

We all have something. There’s some little, unimportant thing that drives you crazy in your Children’s Room or your school library. And I want to know what it is.<\/p>\n

I will confess that I have a few things. The chairs need to be in the right places, the displays needs to be filled with face-outs, and then there’s this display:<\/p>\n

\"Photo<\/a>
Photo by Abby Johnson, NAFC Library.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I think it may have once been used for (or intended for) big books, but we couldn’t ever get them to look nice, so we repurposed this weird little shelving unit. It stands in the entrance to our department and usually features popular series of books.<\/p>\n

The thing that drives me crazy is that each pocket is a different depth, meaning that different size books look nice in different pockets. I am somewhat obsessive about picking out the series to feature in the size-appropriate rows. The middle row where you can’t really see the last couple of books? Driving me crazy right now.<\/p>\n

Does it matter? NO!
\nDoes it bug me so much that I make a HUGE DEAL out of everyone putting the “right” size books in there? NO!<\/p>\n

But if I’m on my own, I will definitely rearrange or pull different books so that it looks “right” to me.<\/p>\n

I know I’m not the only one (RIGHT?!), so out with it! What are the little, unimportant things in your library space that drive you crazy?<\/p>\n

— Abby Johnson, Children’s Services Manager
\nNew Albany-Floyd County Public Library
\nNew Albany, IN
\nhttp:\/\/www.abbythelibrarian.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We all have something. There’s some little, unimportant thing that drives you crazy in your Children’s Room or your school library. And I want to know what it is. I will confess that I have a few things. The chairs need to be in the right places, the displays needs to be filled with face-outs, and then there’s this display: I think it may have once been used for (or intended for) big books, but we couldn’t ever get them to look nice, so we repurposed this weird little shelving unit. It stands in the entrance to our department and usually features popular series of books. The thing that drives me crazy is that each pocket is a different depth, meaning that different size books look nice in different pockets. I am somewhat obsessive about picking out the series to feature in the size-appropriate rows. The middle row where you…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[101,231,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alsc-blogger-abby-johnson","category-displays","category-slice-of-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}