While Looking For Carol Burnett, The Cleaning Lady...

Do y'all remember the Carol Burnett show on television? At the beginning and end of the show, she would come on the stage dressed in a cleaning lady's outfit: dust-ruffled hat on her head, baggy shirt and old sweater, long skirt, and big old-fashioned work boots. She also carried a long-handled mop and a bucket.
Well, while looking for the cleaning lady, who I was told looked like Carol Burnett and was here to help today, I decided to see what our employees were doing. It's inventory time, you know. And everyone was busy as bees!
I started in the Odom Genealogical Library where Irene said she was cataloging the backlog of information that had been kept in storage during our renovation and was waiting for shelf space. Keva was also in the genealogy library. She was databasing the Veterans Project, but said she's also been shelving books, putting them in order and straightening the racks.
Next I went to the Information Services office, where Aileen was catching up on her webmaster mail and setting up paperwork for inventorying all the equipment tomorrow.
I didn't see that cleaning lady though....
Melody, our director, was buried in work at her computer. She said she was discarding books. Those are books that haven't been on the shelf for three years when compared to the list that said they should be. She also said she was listening to the noise up on the roof, where the guys are putting in the new air conditioning system. She said they had to cut a new door first to get the equipment in.
She also said everyone went to the old Doerun library yesterday and cleaned it out. The building belongs to the city. At the new library, they placed the shelves brought from the old building, set up the paperback section, repaired books and cleaned...and a lot of general stuff.
The next person I saw was Johnnie, who said she finished her monthly report and was doing some normal catching up with the Interlibrary Loans. And like Melody, she was looking for missing books.
And I was still searching for that Carol Burnett look-alike.
Elois was found cleaning the top of her desk and surrounding area. She said when she finished, she had to place in order and straighten all the reference books on their shelves.
Carolyn was catching up around the processing desk. Ann was doing normal work in bookkeeping, such as counting money and doing reports. She said she wasn't doing any inventory today. But I knew that later she'd be in the genealogy library to help.
Josh and Sheila were both looking for missing books. Sheila said if she finds one, she checks it in and marks it off her list. Josh said he was trying to avoid moving any shelves; his yesterday at the old Doerun library gave him sore muscles.
Norma and Cray were reading shelves in the Children's Library, and after the Summer Reading Program, that's a big job! Since the books are for the little ones, they really get stuck in strange places. And they're looking for missing books also. Two other jobs they have are 1) to do a big switch, which is to reposition the books so they aren't squeezed together in some places with large empty gaps in other places; and 2) weeding out the dirty, moldy, messed-up books.
So, I'd gone from one end of the library to the other looking for that Carol Burnett cleaning lady and didn't find her anywhere. But I found out what everyone else is doing today for inventory.
Oh, I suppose you wonder what I'm doing for inventory. Well, checking up on everyone else and writing this blog. And looking for that Carol Burnett cleaning lady someone said was here to help with inventory.