King/Queen of the Stacks

Someday, I will run a library of my own. I have had friends who worked as library pages in high school, and they did almost nothing but shelving books. That may also be why shelving books is one of the most loathsome tasks in any library. It's dull, monotonous, and in all other ways BORING. I happen to like small doses of it from time to time. The sheer order out of chaos feeling of tucking each volume, with its protective plastic jacket, into it's right place has something calming about it. It's almost spiritual the way in which each book and all of the information therein, seems to take on an almost higher meaning when it is ensconced within the bosom of a library stack, and nestled among all of its cousins, brothers and sisters in its family of knowing. Yet people hate shelving books. On the TV show Bones, two of the lab 'squints' Zach and Hodgins play a little game with each other... "king of the lab". When one makes some new discovery, he is "king of the lab" for that moment. I think that in my library, there will be stacks of 10 books at a time that the pages will have to shelve. They will be timed at this exercise, and the page who shelves 10 different books the fastest, demonstrating a proficiency for efficiency and knowledge of the library organization.. will be "king or queen of the stacks" for that moment. While shelving might be the most hated task in every library in the world... in MY library, it will be damned fun.