<-NARRATOR:->Listen to a conversation between a student and an employee in the university library.

旁白：听一段学生和大学图书馆职员的对话。

<-FEMALE LIBRARY EMPLOYEE:->Ready to check out?

工作人员：准备好借书了吗？

<-MALE STUDENT:->Just about...Before I do though, this book-on early navigation...I've been using this book quite a bit for a research project, and I'd like to own it actually.And... well, it's an old book, and there were two copies on the shelf just now, so... I was wondering if I could buy one.I was talking to this guy the other day, and he said the library sold books on occasion... is that right?

学生：马上就好。在我借出之前，这本关于早期导航的书……我用这本书用了挺长时间，为了做一个调研项目。我想拥有它。而且……这本书挺旧了，而且现在书架上有两本，所以我想知道我能买下这本吗？我前几天问过一个人，他说图书馆偶尔才卖书。是这样吗？

<-FEMALE LIBRARY EMPLOYEE:->He's probably talking about our annual book sale. We have one every spring.

工作人员：他说的应该是我们的年度卖书活动。我们每年春天都会办一次。

<-MALE STUDENT:->OK ... How do you decide which books to sell? Are they duplicates?

学生：好吧。你们怎么决定卖哪些书呢？是印刷本吗？

<-FEMALE LIBRARY EMPLOYEE:->A lot are duplicates. If we have more than one copy of a title and it hasn't been checked out in a few years...­ in that case it might end up at the sale.

工作人员：很多都是印刷副本。如果我们同一本书有超过一本库存，而且好几年都没人借了，很可能它也会被卖掉。

<-MALE STUDENT:->I've actually tried to find this book online, but no luck so far... ­I was really hoping to buy it.

学生：事实上我之前试过在网上找这本书，但是还没找到...我很想买下它。

<-FEMALE LIBRARY EMPLOYEE:->Well ...[upspeak] that particular book... well, it probably won't be up for sale this year.Most of the books in the sale come from off-site storage.

工作人员：这一本书……很可能今年的卖书活动里不会有。卖的书里很多都存在异地。

<-MALE STUDENT:->Off-site storage?

学生：存在异地？

<-FEMALE LIBRARY EMPLOYEE:->That's where we keep books that haven't been used for several years.They're still in the catalog, which means they can be checked out if you fill out a form...it takes maybe a day or two to retrieve one of them.

工作人员：我们把好几年都没用过的书存在那儿。这些书还在目录里，也就是说，只要你填个表，也还是能借这些书的...可能要一两天时间才能把书取回来这儿。

<-MALE STUDENT:->I see.

学生：我懂了。

<-FEMALE LIBRARY EMPLOYEE:->And then, before we decide to include a book in the sale, we review its circulation history again. Which can take a while...we've got a lot of books in storage!

工作人员：在我们决定要卖这本书之前，我们会回看它的流通历史记录，这也要花些时间，我们库存里有很多书。

<-MALE STUDENT:->So it's basically the unpopular books that get put up for sale, then...

学生：所以基本上就是冷门的书会被放出销售？

<-FEMALE LIBRARY EMPLOYEE:->Well, that...­ plus the main thing is to make sure students have access to the information in the books.A lot of them are available in electronic format these days … even the really old ones … you know, they’ve been preserved that way.

工作人员：还有主要的一点是要确保学生都能获取书中的信息。很多书现在都有电子版了，哪怕是那些非常古老的书。你知道的，它们一直都是这样保存的。

<-MALE STUDENT:->So most of the books for sale are older books?

学生：那就是说大部分卖的书都是比较旧的书。

<-FEMALE LIBRARY EMPLOYEE:->Well, we get book donations, too, and lots of those are new.Again, a librarian reviews them and decides whether to catalog them or put them up for sale.

工作人员：我们也会收到捐书，其中大部分都是新书。同样地，图书管理员也会检查一遍，决定要把这些书归入目录还是卖掉。

<-MALE STUDENT:->Is this sale open to the public?

学生：这个卖书活动是面向公众的吗？

<-FEMALE LIBRARY EMPLOYEE:->On the second day...­ it's a two-day sale. The first day is for students, faculty and staff, though, which is great.We usually need about 20 volunteers for the sale, and, well, if you volunteer, you get first shot at everything in advance...

工作人员：第二天是。这个销售活动有两天。第一天是面对学生和教职工的，这是主要的。我们的销售活动通常需要20个志愿者。如果你成为志愿者，你就能提前看到所有的书了。

<-MALE STUDENT:->[sounds interested in becoming a volunteer] Really? What do volunteers have to do?

学生：真的？志愿者都要做什么？

<-FEMALE LIBRARY EMPLOYEE:->You help sort the books and set up the tables.But,keep in mind, those positions fill up quickly...Now, about this particular book... It wouldn't hurt to send a formal request to the collection department.They might be able to let you know if it'd be up for sale.

工作人员：你们要帮忙把书分类，布置好桌子。但要记住，名额很快就会满了。关于这一本书，你不如发一封正式请求给收藏部门。他们也许会让你知道这本书是否会被出售。

<-MALE STUDENT:->I'll do that. Thanks.

学生：我会的。谢谢。