A treasure of a book administrator

Buy light bulbs, call Paul, pay electricity bills, pay taxes ... For most people, the seemingly ordinary content recorded on the old yellow stool paper may be very irrelevant, but for book management This is not the case for Sharon McKellar.

Sharon McKeller is an ordinary administrator of the Auckland Public Library. In the past 10 years, she has done something that she feels great. She classified the items leaving in the book returned to the library, classified and organized, and scanned it to the Internet. She was specifically placed on the library's official website and named it "Found in the library" in a library book).

Book administrator Shaaron McKellar and her family

Illustration of Sharon McKelle Painted

This file now includes more than 350 items. Among these collections, there are yellow photos, job fragments, bus tickets, love letters, postcards and pencil paintings ...... Items are diverse, and McCallo has been classified in detail: Notes, KIDS, Photos,,, Photos,,, Photos,,, Photos,,, Photos,, Artifacts, Bookmarks, Lists, Card and Letters, Creative Writing ......

A photo of a couple

"Family snapshot"

Book Reading Record

Signing to "Alice"

"Nanaomi, please find the special note that I give you in the living room" "

Super lottery card

Transcript

Disney's flash card

But not every item can enter the website. With the popularity of e -books, these items are now much less than when she first started working.

In 2013, the Auckland Public Library (OPL) wanted to establish a new website. McKeller, who has been in various positions in OPL since 2003, proposed to help design new websites. At that time, she was looking for some interesting ideas to enrich the content of the website. She remembered a magazine "Found Magazine" that she had always liked. This magazine will collect and publish items that include or discovered from all kinds of people from love letters to ticket roots to graffiti.

Figure left: "Friends Division"

Right: A small comic with the theme of "Jim Eggtree" found in the park

Figure left: A almost blank music notebook, a page of text read: Like a bee

Right: "The Beautiful World after the Rain"

Left slip to view more old photos collected by "Discovery Magazine"

- END -