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23/02/2005
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Someone threw out the register….
This dept writes all sorts of technical reports and each is given a report no. and a register is kept. We only have access to the register of the reports since 1999 beause the registers before that were on paper and someone decided to throw them out.
Today someone wants a report from 1998. It isn’t on the catalogue, it isn’t on the national database, and the register is gone. We have no record of receiving them. The person who wants it is in the section that published it in the first place and is now a bit distressed that they can’t be located. They sent the required copies to us – to be kept.
Where are they? Don’t know. Maybe in a corner, in a box, in the basement… we have nasty corners. They drive me crazy and I want to clean them out, but my lib’n doesn’t want me to. It involves cataloguing and for some reason she doesn’t want it done. I’m not sure if it’s because she doesn’t trust me to catalogue properly or if she feels that the cataloguing is her job, even if she doesn’t like it, and she’s just territorial. Impossible to tell. I know she think decisions have to be made by her, and of course it is her job, but she doesn’t make decisions! Some things are obvious and don’t need any extra decisions because they are publications put out by the dept and therefore have to be kept, but she still won’t let me touch them. She’d rather I sit around being bored on the quiet days than let me do the cataloguing.
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