Two enormous HVAC units sit on pallets outside the library. They'll be installed on the roof tomorrow. Two maintenance workers roll a large cart filled with HVAC parts around the library, looking for a place to stash it for tomorrow's installation.

"Why don't we just put it in there?" asks the first maintenance worker, nodding toward the study rooms. "We'll ask if it's okay."

The second maintenenace worker glances at the study room and hesitates.

The first maintenance worker asks, "Afraid it'll be stolen?"

The second maintenance worker looks to the first maintenance worker and says, "I'm afraid someone will pee on it or something."

How to find new books to read:

• Ask your library staff.
• NoveList, a database probably available through your library, lets you get similar reads by author, title, series, narrator, and keyword.
• Fantastic Fiction offers a "Similar books by other authors" section at the bottom of each book page and a "Visitors to this page also looked at these authors” section at the bottom of each author's page.
• LibraryThing offers a "LibraryThing Recommendations" section on book pages. There are also tag clouds for books and authors.
• Literature-Map allows you to put in an author's name and get similar authors in return, and the effect they use is pretty nifty...like a constellation of authors.
• Whichbook offers searches by mood and emotion, world map, character and plot, and bestsellers.
• Goodreads offers a "Lists With This Book" section on book pages.

This entry is dedicated to the man with his hand down the back of his pants....like, way down...asking, at the reference desk, how to delete his download history on the public access computers.

Close the library.

I have a sneaking suspicion that this is how most library staff would like to go.

Free shit at the library.