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 Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 10:04 pm
Of course Devi would pick the wrong book. Growing frustrated, she looked for another book, found a large black book The Art of Filmmaking and a thin brown book Lights, Camera, Action!: Directing for Beginners. She took both off the shelves, in addition to the Dummies book, which is the one she figured she would be most likely to read.
"I think these will do," she said a bit angrily, still frustrated from her past embarrassments she's had in front of the librarian. "Are horror films in this aisle?"
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Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 10:11 pm
Tony grimaced, seeing that she was angry, and forced the grin from his face and, more importantly, the amusement from his eyes. He moved and put the miss-shelved book on the green shelf. They were left for patrons to put books they pulled but didn't want to check out on, so they didn't put them back in the wrong place on the shelves.
They weren't used very often.
Returning to Devi, he saw she had gotten a couple more books and he shook his head at her question.
"No, they're more in the back. Fittingly enough, I suppose," he chuckled. Horror books in the back of the library? That hadn't been designed, it just happened by coincidence, "this way."
He walked down the back of the aisle, then over to a knew set of book rows. The TR's were pretty secluded. There weren't as many in this section, being specific, but there were still a few. "Here they are."
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Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 10:17 pm
Devi started looking through the books, a little more attention to the titles this time. Most seemed to mention horror movies and gender, or horror movies and sexuality, or horror movies and violence, none of which were quite what she was looking for. Then again, she wasn't quite sure exactly what she was looking for. She came across one book, Horror Film: Creating and Marketing Fear that sounded intriguing by the title, but she wasn't sure if its contents.
Thinking that would probably suffice, she took the book and nodded towards the librarian. "I think I'm ready to check these out."
She then realized something. "Do...do I need a library card?"
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Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 10:23 pm
Tony nodded when she said she was ready, moving to head back to the desk downstairs. He paused, though when she asked if she would need a library card. Blinking, he looked at her.
"Of course," he said, shaking his head, "but don't worry about it. Once we get down to the Circulation desk I can make you a new account and give you a temporary card. The real one will just be sent to you."
He offered her a reassuring smile, not wanting her day at the library to be any more difficult then it already had been.
"Would you like me to carry those for you?"
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Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 10:30 pm
"Yes, thanks," she said. She probably could have carried the books herself, but she wasn't going to turn down someone's offer to carry them for her. She handed him the books, leaving one book to carry for herself so she didn't seem to be giving him all the burden. Of course, the book she kept for herself was the smallest of them all, but that was besides the point.
"My name is Devi by the way," she said, figuring she would have to tell him his name anyways when it came time to make the library card. "Does it cost anything to have the card made?"
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Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 10:35 pm
"Anthony Darrow," he said, gladly holding the books for her. He would have carried them all without complaint, but he didn't ask her for the last one. She obviously kept it with her for some reason. Walking with her to the elevator again, he shook his head at her question.
"No, nothing. It's just a bit of paper work, then I'll put it in the computer later and you'll be all set with a permanent account. It's fairly painless, I promise."
He rode the elevator back down, glad to be back in his 'territory', though technically the whole library was his domain. He went behind the desk, putting the books on the counter, and then pulled out a form for her to fill in. It was pretty simple, just asking for things like a name, an address, a telephone number, email, credit card number. But the credit card wasn't required for checking out and not subject to any fees: it was just for fines on overdue or lost/damaged books.
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Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 10:44 pm
"Its nice to meet you, Anthony," she said as she followed him into the elevator.
Devi looked at the form intensely before she filled it out. She was a young girl, not used to filling out much paper work. Luckily, she had her wallet on her that day so was able to give her credit card number. She never really used her card that often - she never went shopping or anything, it was only for emergencies. Buying books for doing research for a fun project was an emergency, right?
She handed Anthony the form back, unsure of what was to happen next. The whole process seemed so unusual to her, but she supposed that was only because it was her first time. "When do I owe these books back by?"
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Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 10:48 pm
"Well," Tony said, looking at the form and quickly typing something into the computer. He created a skeleton account for her, checking out the books, stamping them, and then running them through the desensitizer before putting them in a neat pile on the counter and sliding them to her.
"They'll be due back in two weeks," he said, putting a library book mark under one of the covers, "if you need to renew them you don't have to bring them in, or you could just call us and we can do it over the phone. For now you can use your ID card as account verification, any picture ID, until your proper library card arrives."
He smiled, hoping that all wasn't too complicated. He didn't think so, but he had done it a thousand times before. "You are good to go. I hope your movie goes well."
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Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 10:56 pm
"Thank you," she said before walking away from the counter, excited to get started on her movie. Suddenly, and idea came to her. Libraries were a quiet creepy place (at least, in her mind). She turned around and marched back to the counter. "Hey, do you think I can film a scene in the library maybe? I promise I won't make anything too messy. I don't like messes."
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Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 11:04 pm
Tony was already getting to work inputting the rest of the info into the account for her. Since he was there and the screen was open anyway, and he usually did accounts right away. Not like acquisitions, apparently.
Looking up when she spoke again, he thought he had forgotten to give her something, or she needed more books. Her question caught him off guard, but he nodded.
"Of course. So long as you don't film any of the patrons without their permission, I don't have a problem with you coming here to do filming. If you tell me a bit in advance, I can probably make sure no one disturbs you."
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Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 11:33 pm
"Awesome," she said, as usual, lacking the enthusiasm that normally comes with that word. "I'll try and give you a week's notice. Thank you very much, Mr. Anthony...Librarian." She forgot his last name. In retrospect, she realized she probably would have been better off just calling him Anthony.
"Bye!" she said, heading out of the library quickly before she made any more stupid comments, hurrying home to get started on the pre-production of her movie.
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