I've been working a lot more lately, gettin' my librarian on. Here is a peek into the back stacks of the periodical department, the place where they store all the really old bound magazines. I go back here to pull old journals and magazines by patron request. I LOVE it when I work in periodicals. Back when I was working a regular schedule, this was part of my department (now I'm a system substitute, so I work at whatever branch needs me, pretty much when I feel like taking the hours available). Periodicals also encompasses the newpapers on microfiche, which is sometimes fun and sometimes not fun because of the super-tempermental microfiche-reader machines. The stacks you see here are on runners. You use the giant spindle handles on the ends to crank them apart to get at the section you need. I always feel a thrill moving between the stacks back here, the smell of decaying ink and paper, the treasure hunt for the desired journal, often not thumbed through in years or even decades.