Random thoughts:

trolleys:
I don't know how many there are here - 40 something? But it seems to be on a completely different scale to TheOldPlace where there might have been half a dozen, 8? The upside is that there's always one when you want one; the downside is that when - as now - not many are in use there's a vast trolley park under the stairs (just visible from where I sit actually) that looks like a breakers' yard for unwanted cars!

shelving:
I had a go at this the other day for the first time (shame on me! but it is a bit uncultural here for the likes of me to go anywhere near it). I don't plan on doing a lot, but it is helpful and therapeutic at the same time. Helpful in getting to know the stock and it's usage; therapy in being a fairly undemanding job mentally when your brain can have a chance to process other thoughts and your body can get a bit of much needed physical exercise. And it's NOT in front of a computer!

shelves:
I may not love (it's ok to be honest) the green shelving we have here in the old part of the library, but I do like the book ends we have which are attached to the bottom of the shelf above; can be easily moved, don't fall over if the books are too heavy and just seem to work well. See - I wouldn't have even noticed these if I hadn't done some shelving.

shelvers:
I don't have numbers to hand but I think there are more of these employed (as well as loans team and floor team people working on it) so books waiting to be shelved never seem to get quite as badly stacked up as I recall at TheOldPlace. Of course, I just may not have seen busy time yet.

Dewey order:
what *is* good when you have a trolley load of books to shelve is that they've already been put in Dewey order by the shelving fairies. Very nice.

interruptions:
if I get interrupted (particularly by a certain unnamed colleague who just doesn't seem to stop or know when to even think about stopping) as badly as I have been this afternoon, I just might possibly go mad.