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It’s the first week of summer vacation and your first day on the job as a page at the library. Even though the work is probably going to be pretty boring it will be air-conditioned and definitely beats your friends’ jobs in fast food and landscaping. You swing by the YA room to say hello to Mr. David who is the most heavily tattooed librarian you have ever seen and a pretty nice guy all around. He’s really happy to see you and is excited about having you work in the library. He tells you to wait for the head librarian there in the YA room.

You take a couple of minutes to check out the new manga while you wait and are startled when you hear a voice behind you say “Are you ready to start work?”.

When you turn around you realize that the Head Librarian arrived completely silently. You’ve never seen him before and he looks, well, odd. His grey beard reaches past his belt buckle, his eyes are different colors and twinkle behind very tiny glasses, and he’s wearing a suit but the jacket is really really long, more like a robe almost. You stammer out “ummm yeah,” then you remember that you are talking to the big boss of the library and correct yourself. “Yes sir, I’m ready to work!” trying to sound confident and enthusiastic.

“Good,” he says as he smiles, “come this way”. He turns on his heel and walks very quickly and completely silently to a door which you have never noticed before which reads LIBRARY STAFF ONLY. He opens the door with an old fashioned brass key which he wears on a chain around his neck and gestures for you to enter.

When you go through the door you are immediately almost knocked over by a samurai in full armor galloping by on horseback. “There goes Mr. Tezuka, second in command of children’s services,” the Head Librarian informs you, “Follow me.” He takes off again in that same swift silent stride and you chase after him trying to keep up. You pass an Indian woman with six arms and three faces. She flips multiple books from hand to hand all the while typing furiously at two keyboards which are twice the length of any you have ever seen before. A sign on her desk reads HEAD OF CATALOGUING.

“Mrs. Ranganathan, this is one of our new summer pages,” your guide tells her.

“Welcome aboard,” she says in chorus. Two of her faces wink at you while the other stares at an old school computer terminal which bathes her in green light.

Suddenly there is an immense rattle and clamor as a colossal sheet of paper unrolls itself across the entire ceiling. It is covered with figures, numbers, graphs, and what look like hieroglyphics.

“Ahhhh good,” the Head Librarian says, “circulation is up with senior citizens, our ESOL programs are going well, and the new shipment of Hip Hop CDs is in and ready to go out to the public. Hmmmm, we still need to do more for the teens.” His eyes fall on you, “speaking of which we need to figure out what to do with you. Do you want a 910 (explorers and exploration) job or a 609 (invention) job?

• Do you chose a 910 (Explorers and Exploration) job?
• Or do you want a 609 (Invention) job?