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I said I thought I would only get Disc 4, and not the whole set. I was wrong.
I only got disc 3, and not the whole set.
The hold has been replaced on the set. I actually have an individual hold on both the full copies in the system which it turns out you can do. Whichever one comes in first, when I am holding it, I will cancel the other one.
The librarian thought my complaint was reasonable about the DVDs (which she doesn't enter into the system or file) and not about the magazines (which she does), because it would be inconvenient to do the magazines by month. I am sure it would. I am also sure it was easier to do the DVDs all under one category even though they were not in fact the full set. It is more convenient for the librarians but it is less convenient for the patrons. At what point is that tradeoff too much? I thought it somewhat disingenuous that she said it was bad when it was someone else's job and not when it was hers, when they are really the same sort of thing. Although I have to admit there is one piece of the DVD thing that is worse than the magazines. The DVD title said "Firefly: the complete series" so it was clear what it was - clear, and for the four dsics from Milwaukie, absolutely wrong. The magazines at least are titled "Beadwork 2004" so that when you look at it you know immediately that you are about to have an annoying experience and should click through to the details page to figure it out.
Still, neither one is very useful when checking materials out.
Two of the three books are due in a month. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is due in two weeks but it will go back the next time I go by. I skim-read it because, while it had been recommended to me, I didn't find the story itself all that interesting. The method of delivery was but I have never enjoyed truly reading the whole of books whose focus/energy is more their delivery than their contents.
So now I have Lackey's The Outstretched Shadow and de Lint's Someplace to be Flying. And I do not have disc 3 of Firefly because it seemed pointless. I just returned it right then. I feel rather sorry for whoever gets it next. They are probably expecting the complete set also.
I only got disc 3, and not the whole set.
The hold has been replaced on the set. I actually have an individual hold on both the full copies in the system which it turns out you can do. Whichever one comes in first, when I am holding it, I will cancel the other one.
The librarian thought my complaint was reasonable about the DVDs (which she doesn't enter into the system or file) and not about the magazines (which she does), because it would be inconvenient to do the magazines by month. I am sure it would. I am also sure it was easier to do the DVDs all under one category even though they were not in fact the full set. It is more convenient for the librarians but it is less convenient for the patrons. At what point is that tradeoff too much? I thought it somewhat disingenuous that she said it was bad when it was someone else's job and not when it was hers, when they are really the same sort of thing. Although I have to admit there is one piece of the DVD thing that is worse than the magazines. The DVD title said "Firefly: the complete series" so it was clear what it was - clear, and for the four dsics from Milwaukie, absolutely wrong. The magazines at least are titled "Beadwork 2004" so that when you look at it you know immediately that you are about to have an annoying experience and should click through to the details page to figure it out.
Still, neither one is very useful when checking materials out.
Two of the three books are due in a month. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is due in two weeks but it will go back the next time I go by. I skim-read it because, while it had been recommended to me, I didn't find the story itself all that interesting. The method of delivery was but I have never enjoyed truly reading the whole of books whose focus/energy is more their delivery than their contents.
So now I have Lackey's The Outstretched Shadow and de Lint's Someplace to be Flying. And I do not have disc 3 of Firefly because it seemed pointless. I just returned it right then. I feel rather sorry for whoever gets it next. They are probably expecting the complete set also.