New Arrangement For Kingdom Hall Libraries!!!

by minimus 25 Replies latest jw friends

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  Scully

  No apologies writes:

  Can I ask you a dumb question? What exactly do you mean by cataloging your books at home? What would you do with uch a catalogue once you had it?

  I guess you'd have to know me a bit better to understand "why" I did it. LOL However, I've always had a "thing" for organizing stuff, making lists, statistics, scheduling etc. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's a pain in the derriere. They do say that people who - like me - have a compulsion to keep everything organized and in order are really messed up on the inside. Having said that, I'm a lot less concerned about those kinds of things now, than when I was a dub.

  What I did with the books we had in our personal library was to organize them the way a real library would. With little stickers on the spine with the code letters and publication year. I kept a list (catalogue) of which books we had, which was handy if for example you went to a used book store or garage sale and found an old (and undemonized - ha!) relic WTS publication (which I've done a few times) and wanted to know if you had that version or a revision etc. Our book shelves were organized according to the year of publication, with pocket sized books, regular books, bound volumes each designated to specific shelves. It was a weird way for me to express my "spirituality", I guess, such as it was.

  I'm very happy to say that I don't do $h!t like that anymore. LOL

  Love, Scully
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  minimus

  If you approached the "Librarian" and told him that you wanted to read different books in the Kingdom Hall Library, for a few hours, the "Librarian" would no doubt get suspicious. He would wonder why you wanted to read such books for so many hours. He might even think that you were trying to do research in the Society's own books! This could send out a signal that you must be watched, very carefully......I can see it all now!
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  Englishman

  Lets suppose that each hall has 3 congo's using it.

  Now, one library between them infers the destruction of the other 2.

  So now there's only one-third the number of books available to Joe Dub.

  So now, it's going to be more difficult to quote the societies failed prophesies back to them. Plus, much greater control will be excercised over the remaining books.

  Englishman.

  PS: We have always been at war with Oceania.
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  Pork Chop

  Paranoia run rampant again, you guys need to relax.
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  RubaDub

  In some ways I feel that the instructions are incomplete.

  I see nothing about the order in which the books should be displayed. Perhaps, in alphabetical or chronological order. Maybe by color, all of the red books together, all of the blue books together, etc. Or possibly by size, all 192 page books together, etc.

  Perhaps there will be a follow-up note on this in the announcement area of the KM or it will be transmitted verbally by the CO to the elders on his next visit.

  *****RubaDub
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  minimus