We had a great Christmas at home, but we weren't dozing much. Last year we'd planned to redo the back building (John's former shop space) as our library/great room. The flood intervened, and the project waited until late November and early December.
We got a great deal on some used industrial steel shelving that John resurfaced. He cleaned up and polished the concrete floor, and we installed five units, each eight feet tall and eight feet high.
John's been moving books from his cache inside the house for a week or so. I've been so busy wrapping up projects at work for the year that the first chance I had to work on the library was Christmas Eve.
And work we did! We moved our literature library and several sets of old encyclopedias (John collects 'em). I moved part of my metaphysical library; the rest of it I've completely reorganized inside my office inside the house.
The obvious question is: how do you ever find anything here? The answer: we catalog everything with some software that'll read ISBN number bar codes from books, look up the information from Amazon.com, and store everything – including location information - in the database. I've been recoding books like mad, because when I reshelve books I want to have current location information. For you trivia folks: we have about 5100 books under management so far, not counting multivolume sets like encyclopedias.
Here we're looking back from the far side of the new library space. The room is huge - maybe 800 square feet. We'll move out the big TV and the sound system. I had thought to move my piano out, too, but I'm now considering other plans for my music studio.
Interesting,
Id love to have my own library
Thanks for bringing this up
Posted by: software development uk | 15 January 2010 at 10:48 AM