Not all the collections in the museum are organized and placed in the exhibition stands. Many museums have a large number of unorganized, identified, restored, or even unknown collections, which have been piled up in the warehouse for many years, and such collections may continue to increase every year.

It takes a long and arduous process to clean them up, restore them, identify them, and meet the conditions for exhibition. Some things are just collections since they entered the museum, and I am afraid that they will never see the light of day.

In fact, the same is true of libraries, there are many collections of books that do not provide borrowing and query services to the public, and the main reason is that they are not organized at all, and even the librarians do not know what books they are. These collections often come from transfers from other departments and from social donations.

For example, it is impossible to put books donated by the society directly on the shelves for borrowing in regular libraries. The first step is to do a version verification to see if it's a legitimate publication. Then it is necessary to identify its category, place magnetic strips or chips, compile a catalog index, and classify them into warehouses and shelves.

There are some books and documents that may not be suitable for borrowing and querying to the public, and are only suitable for internal material preservation. There are many damaged documents, and it is necessary to determine whether there is a possibility of restoration and collection value, and if so, it is necessary to organize professionals to restore them.

Restoration work also requires cost and time, and if the documents with collection value cannot be restored temporarily, they can only be collected in-house first, and may be stored in-house forever.

The larger the library and the more donations it receives from the community, the heavier the work will be. It is much more troublesome to deal with donated books than to deal with books purchased directly by the library.

In the early 90s, the library boasted a collection of 1.6 million volumes, but now more than 20 years later, the number of books that can be borrowed publicly and indexed by catalogues alone has reached nearly 5 million. The actual total number of books in the collection has already exceeded 6 million.

Therefore, the work of the library seems to be idle, but the work of sorting out the books and documents donated by the society has always been understaffed, and a large number of donated books are still piled up in the warehouse. The library is short of people, so it can provide students with work-study opportunities, and Ding Qi worked in the library when he was an undergraduate.

However, the sorting, identification, restoration, preservation, and shelving of important documents have high professional level requirements, and ordinary people cannot do it. It's not oily and boring, or even obscure, so many people don't want to do it.

After Ding Qi returned from Ye Xing, he was thinking about how to get his hands on this kind of literature in the library? He was only a temporary worker, and only regular staff members were eligible to access the rare books and ancient scrolls in the library. Unexpectedly, the actual situation was much simpler than he imagined, he just took the initiative to talk to the curator, and the curator agreed very happily.

The director is named Zhao Chunling, who is over 60 years old this year, and was formerly a professor in the Department of Foreign Languages, but was rehired to the library after retirement to guide the management of foreign language materials. In the past two years, as the central government's anti-corruption efforts continued to increase, the former director of the library was also swatted by flies, and no one took over the work of the library for the time being, so the school leaders asked her to take overall responsibility.

Director Zhao immediately said to Ding Qi: "It's really good that you are willing to do this work! Today's school publicizes the number of books it collects, how many donations it has received, and how many new libraries it has built. The library is the face of the university, and it sounds good to say.

But what about the inside of the school? It's almost like a base for the families of the faculty and staff. Typical Qingshui Yamen, only a little oil and water in procurement, no need to wait for the supervision of people outside, there are so many eyes on the inside, didn't the previous curator be photographed? ”

Unexpectedly, one sentence caused so many complaints from Director Zhao, and Ding Qi also knew what the so-called "resettlement base for the families of faculty and staff" meant. Some faculty members' families are unemployed or temporarily unemployed, and if they seek a relationship with the school leader, they can basically only be arranged to a school-affiliated service organization such as a library.

Some people just want to find a quiet and stable job, focusing on the formal establishment of university faculty members, and others, especially young people, just want to make a transition and leave when there is a better opportunity.

Ding Qi reminded with a smile: "Director Zhao, I'm just a temporary worker. ”

Director Zhao misunderstood what he meant, and said with some regret: "I know your affairs, don't be discouraged when young people encounter some setbacks." I can't give you a formal establishment right now, but I can give you a raise. It used to be 1,005 a month, right? How could it be enough to live? I'll give you a rise of 3,000! Although it's not much, I have such a big authority, and any more will have to be reported to the leaders for approval. ”

Ding Qi hurriedly explained: "You misunderstood what I meant, I didn't want to increase my salary. Just want to ask, can temporary workers also have access to the precious documents in the collection?"

Curator Zhao smiled again: "Xiaoding, do you know why I'm happy? Because there is really a shortage of people to do these jobs, it is appropriate to give you a salary increase." I don't put pressure on your work schedule, I don't stipulate how many documents you have to sort out every month, you just have to be willing to do it seriously.

It depends on how you say it, you can say that you are an external expert! There is a lot of work on the identification and restoration of documents, and it is necessary to hire experts from outside. My authority, each person can only give 3,000 yuan per month for hard work. Now those who can really do this kind of work, let alone 3,000 yuan, even 30,000 yuan can't be invited!"

Ding Qi adds: "I'm not good at document restoration. ”

Director Zhao: "I know you're not a restoration professional. You only need to be responsible for identification and sorting, and those that can be classified and put on the shelves will be put on the shelves, and those that need to be indexed will be collected internally, and the damaged literature will be identified first to find out what category it is and whether it has repair value. The warehouse is piled up, and the speed of sorting out is not as fast as the speed of new receipts. ”

Ding Qi said: "I am not a foreign language major, so I applied to sort out Chinese literature first, focusing on rare books and ancient scrolls donated by the society. ”

Director Zhao: "It's the job that is the most lacking in people, foreign language materials are easy to handle, you can find students from the foreign language department to help, but it is much more difficult to do ancient book research than to check foreign language dictionaries and search engines." There are a lot of literature that needs to be sorted out, and you can pick the key points first according to your interests and specialties, and follow the prescribed process.

The school leaders instructed the library to carry out reform and innovation, and almost all of our staff energy and new funds were used to preserve and retrieve literature and materials with the latest scientific and technological means. That's a good thing, but someone has to do the groundwork......"

The plan was completed so easily, and there was a surprise, the salary was doubled compared to the original, Ding Qi was very grateful to this Director Zhao in his heart. Director Zhao is not young but in good spirits, and it is estimated that there are many things that he is not used to seeing over the years, and he chatted with Ding Qi for more than half an hour and complained about all kinds of things.

Ding Qi is like a psychological counselor, and he is indeed a psychological counselor, chatting with her very patiently, interjecting a few words from time to time, and doing appropriate guidance and guidance. Director Zhao was very happy, and finally said: "Xiao Ding, work hard, come to me if you have anything!"

When you really enter the storeroom, you will understand how difficult it is to find something. It's not like typing a keyword into a computer to get a search result and then taking it off the corresponding bookshelf, because there's no record at all. When it comes to stealing literature, many modern people may associate it with **, but this kind of thing, no matter how black a hacker is, it is not easy to do it.

Even if you get in and steal something, you have to know what you're stealing and where you're putting it.

According to the library's records of accepting donations, Zhang Jinlin donated about 10,000 books and documents that year, including more than 1,000 books in foreign languages. These are approximate numbers, because they have not been cleaned up in detail, but the simplest classification has been made, among which there are more than 300 ancient books and ancient scrolls in threads, which are kept in the library's 302 warehouse.

Ding Qi's work began in the 302 storehouse, which has a total collection of nearly 100,000 volumes, most of which are thread-bound or scroll-bound ancient scrolls.

The usual clean-up work, such as that of a general publication, begins with determining the edition as well as the copyright information. Generally speaking, the copyright term of an ordinary work is from the time of creation and publication of the work to 50 years after the death of the author. Ding Qi's work basically does not deal with this issue, but it is also necessary to pay a little attention to the fact that there may be some books from the Republic of China era, and the author has died less than fifty years ago.

For such books, it is of course okay to produce electronic documents and video materials and provide internal search, but they cannot be publicly released, because the library is not a publishing house, and it can only provide borrowing and query services. How do people who come to the library know what materials they want to borrow or query, which requires a brief introduction and indexing.

There are some books that have no storage value, such as the large number of collections that have been preserved in a large number of books, and the quality of preservation is very poor. Even in the case of ancient scrolls, it is sometimes not necessary to create electronic video materials. For example, there are many versions of the Analects in this warehouse, some of them from the Qing Dynasty and some of them from the Republic of China, most of which are editions of the four libraries, and many of them are complete sets of books but are missing.

Some of the books themselves may be cultural relics, but their contents are everywhere, and ordinary people don't need to go here to check them.

Ding Qi wears gloves and a mask, and spends almost all of his time outside of work as a psychiatrist in the pile of old papers. The reason for wearing a mask is not only to protect ancient books, but also that sometimes the smell is really bad. Some books are already moldy, and when they are not opened, they will be broken, with traces of insect moths and the smell of decay, and they cannot even turn the pages directly by hand, but have to be clamped with bamboo tweezers.

This is not because the conditions of the collection are not good enough, the conditions of the library may have been very simple in the early years, but in recent years, it has been very particular, and the light source, temperature, and humidity here are all in accordance with the regulations. Some of the scrolls are too old to be of poor quality or badly damaged before they arrived.

For such ancient books, in fact, reading it once is equivalent to destroying it once, no matter how careful you are, the slightest new damage is irreversible. If there is value in preservation, it should be recorded with modern equipment at the same time, such as making the pages of the book into pictures and preserving them, which is very boring and requires meticulous and patient work.

If it is a precious document and there is a need for restoration, it should be specially registered for collection, and the library will arrange the restoration work, and it is best not to touch it again before it is restored.

The day after Ding Qi started this work, Ye Xing called and asked him if he had found anything, and his tone was very anxious. Ding Qi said that he was looking for it, had already started the clean-up work, and introduced the rare books and ancient scrolls donated by Zhang Jinlin.

Ye Xing shouted on the other side of the phone: "There are only more than 300 volumes, and you haven't found them in two days! Go to the cabinet and rummage through them, won't you turn them out in a while?"

Ding Qi explained: "It's not that you take it for granted, there is no registration information, I have to sort out the books one by one, as long as my hand moves, I have to finish sorting out the moving ancient books." It's not like picking vegetables in the vegetable market, you can flip through them casually, and it takes time to sort out each volume!"

Ye Xing was surprised: "You really went to sort out the ancient books, why don't you just find something!"

Ding Qi replied solemnly: "I applied for a job sorting out rare books and ancient scrolls in the library, so I had the opportunity to find what you wanted." I have already used the fastest way, the first is to clean up the rare books and ancient scrolls donated by Zhang Jinlin back then, and I started cleaning up from looking at ancient books such as atlases.

I didn't know what it was before I opened it, and I had to finish the work after I opened it, and I came to sort out the collection, not to destroy ancient books! You said that the scroll you were looking for was the Fangwai Tuzhi, but I didn't find any of the ancient books with Fangwai Tuzhi written on the outside, and you don't know what that thing looked like, so I could only sort it out one by one. ”

He choked Ye Xing so much that he couldn't speak, and Ye Xing had to encourage him a few words, hoping that he would find it as soon as possible, and then hung up the phone. Ding Qi's attitude is very clear, this is his job, he has to be serious and responsible, he uses this job to find Fang Wai Tuzhi, then he has to do the job well first.

Under this premise, he has indeed used the fastest way in theory, and the first step is to directly find the rare books and ancient scrolls donated by Zhang Jinlin, and start from the ancient books that look like atlases. He didn't find any ancient books with the words Fangwai Tuzhi written on the outside, so he couldn't start directly, maybe the name of that ancient scroll was not called Fangwai Tuzhi.

Ding Qi also had another idea, if there were many rare scrolls here that were collected in the Chishan Temple, and the successive abbots of the Chishan Temple were indeed keeping that secret, then some clues might be found in other ancient scrolls.

Ding Qi did not bring the camera that Ye Xing gave him into the warehouse, or even bring it back to his apartment, but stayed in the "dormitory" given to him by Boci Medical. It's rare to go to the dormitory again and have a photo with the "Five Golden Flowers".

Why did he do this, it may be subconscious, he didn't completely trust Ye Xing. Through recent contact, he found out that Ye Xing had premeditated and played tricks and routines with him. Although there is a reason for the incident, Ding Qi looks at it from the perspective of a psychiatrist, and a person's behavior and habits reflect the thinking habits, that is, a person who likes to engage in conspiracy and calculation, and Ding Qi does not like it.

I don't like it, but there are all kinds of people in this world, and sometimes I have to deal with them, and I have to know how to accommodate them. Ding Qi and Ye Xing have the same purpose, so they can cooperate. But cooperation is cooperation, Ding Qi has his own principles and attitudes, he is a serious person.

Who knows if there is a problem with the camera that Ye Xing gave, and whether there is a tracking and monitoring device hidden Ding Qi has been thinking a little bit about things recently, and his brain is also a little big.

In the first week after Ding Qi took over the "new job", there was a major breakthrough, but he did not discover the map of Fang Wai. The results made people blush a little when they said it, and he sorted out a spring palace atlas. How could there be such a thing in these rare ancient scrolls? I don't know if it was from the Chishan Temple back then, or whether it was collected by Zhang Jinlin later.

Spring palace map since ancient times, the late Ming Dynasty creation and circulation of the most prosperous, roughly has three roles, one is "newlywed teaching", the second is "the taste in the room", the third is "the town house to ward off evil spirits", of course, there is also the elaboration of artistic ideas and so on. The album found by Ding Qi is called Shirong, and the author of the original painting is signed Mr. Shizhou.

Mr. Shizhou is Qiu Ying, a master of painting in the Ming Dynasty, and Shen Zhou, Wen Zhengming, and Tang Yin, and is also the most prestigious Spring Palace painting master. Of course, what Ding Qi found was not the original painting, but an engraved copy from the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, but it was also quite precious. It is even more rare that this album is quite well preserved, and the charm of the original painting can still be seen from the engraving.

It is worthy of everyone's work, with superb skills, delicate portrayals, and beautiful characters. Qiu Ying's Spring Palace set of ten Rong has long been lost in history, and now the Qing Dynasty engraving has been rediscovered, which is a major achievement. This discovery quickly alarmed the leaders of the museum, the school, and the cultural and cultural relics departments, and it also became a hot news.

Ding Qi's name did not appear in the news, and the report only said that the staff of the library of Jinghu University found a Qing Dynasty engraving of Shirong, a set of drawings made by the great painter Qiu Ying of the Ming Dynasty and considered to have been lost, among the rare and ancient books donated by the society.

The discovery of this set of spring palace drawings is regarded as a major achievement, which has caused major repercussions in various fields such as culture, cultural relics and artistic creation. It's a bit hard to say in terms of publicity, but universities are engaged in academics, so they can naturally raise this matter to the height it deserves, and the discovery is of great value for studying the life style, cultural thought, and artistic development of the Ming Dynasty.

Director Zhao deliberately called Ding Qi over again, and said earnestly: "If you want to go up in the university, the most important thing is to produce results, and the greater the impact of the results, the better." Everyone thinks that library work is difficult to produce results, but no one expected that during the period when I was in charge of the work, the most influential results over the years were actually made by you!

It's a pity that I'm already retired, and I'm rehired, and I don't have any more prospects and ideas, if I change to a young curator, it's not good to be his qualifications and capital. I'm optimistic about you, and sure enough, gold shines wherever it is! Our library has been honored, and I can't be sorry for you, because the credit is actually yours.

I have spoken to the university leaders, and I have emphasized your work contributions, and if you want, I can solve a formal establishment for you, and become a regular staff member of the library, which is equivalent to returning to the faculty of the university. You don't have to thank me, it's an opportunity you earned for yourself. ”