Tuesday, April 12, 2011

ORGANIZING A MUSEUM AND LIBRARY

I am in a large building, full of people.  We are all busy organizing displays in the various rooms.  I wander around and end up in a huge gallery-like room at the end of which is a door leading to the back stairway.  In my walkabout, I realize that this museum is dedicated to something that I am familiar with, a fusion of the SCA and the Craft, and suddenly I become very excited.  


I approach a group of people who are having a rather heated discussion as to how to proceed, and I tell them their displays should be separated in *this* way and made into two groupings.  One woman begins to argue with me, but I gently redirect her to setting up the display.  I also tell her that someone is waiting for me.  I leave her with the others, and make my way to the back door.  


Before I can reach it, a large young man intercepts me.  He has curly dark brown hair, brown eyes behind large glasses, a warm smile, and is dressed in dark pants and a white shirt open at the neck.  He is carrying a thick intricately carved staff, which is obviously to be displayed somewhere.  He tells me that there is something in the back he needs to show me, to which I respond I was just heading there, and we head out the back door.  The landing is large and is set out with about half-dozen chairs, as though there has just been a "back-room" meeting going on.  Another young man is there and begins to tell me I'm not supposed to be here.  I ignore him while my companion takes care of the situation.  


Once this is done he takes me into a small room on the other side of the stairs.  This room contains a table, a couple of chairs and many boxes of books.  I know what I must do here, and am anxious to start.  The books from one box lay in heaps on the table and I am struck by the cover of one pile - a Greenman.  The book itself deals with the Elements.  


One final detail needs to be settled.  I turn to my companion and ask him ... but before I say a word, he waves me through to another door which I know leads to the library, where all these books are to be shelved.  I happily pick up my first stack of the Greenman/Elements books and head towards the door.

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