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Things I didn't know how to do today:

1- Where to put the 2010 Standard Postage Stamp Catalogue Vol. 3. Reference archives? Regular collection? What library? There is only about a million of these catalogues already. I hope they're serials. I love serials.

2- What technical services assitant to give the "Collections contes pour enfants" series now that I've finally decided to catalogue them all as Fiction. Usually "contes," which is "fables" in English, are considered Non-Fiction, and are assigned a Dewey number, whereas stories are considered Fiction. Yes I don't really get it either.

• Peter Pan- Fiction
• Blanche Neige - Non Fiction
• Pretty much any Grimm Brothers tale- Non Fiction

Weird.

This series had some of each so I made an executive decision to keep them all together, which meant making them all Fiction or all Non-Fiction. I chose Fiction because they will circulate better in the children's section as such. BUT now I don't know if I need to put them in with the rest of the flow of books, or if they need special cataloguing treatment. So they're sitting on my cart until I get the courage to ask another question.

3- What libraries to assign all the Patron Requests that I processed. Among requests this round:

• Journal d'un vampire / Lisa Jane Smith;
• various Daniel Steel schmuck;
• quelques really cool looking Bandes Dessinees and;
• Les Conseils de Celestin / Caroline Tresca. See image above. It's a children's picture-book series starring this Angel/Ghost/Kleenex who gives good (albeit boring) advice to a bad-ass kid, Lucas, who is always making the wrong descion.... such as playing games like Who Can Stay Underwater The Longest and Let's Ride Bikes Without Helmets.