Today, one of my classmates, Dave, and I went back out to the Navy Records Society's warehouse in Marsh Barton. Our mission: Clean up the place! There are something on the order of 300 boxes of books (for a total of over 5,000 books), which were mostly scattered at random.
We began by cleaning out the outer room, which was no small task (it was home to about 200 boxes). That left us with all 300 boxes in the inner room, and we began to sort them. Ultimately, we got about 200 of the boxes on the pallets in the inner room, and the other 100 back in the outer room in something close to an orderly fashion. Now, we have a map of where all the books are located, and can actually get to almost all of them without having to move more than ten boxes. Previously, to get to some of the books required moving over 100 boxes. Needless to say, it's much easier to get around now!
I also picked up several new books, including the three that I accidentally left behind last time we were out there.
You may be wondering why Dave and I spent three and a half hours of our day on this. The answer is that the Navy Records Society paid us £100 for the job, which was £50 each, which came to over £14/hr. Not bad!
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