Monday, October 31, 2005

Mon. Oct. 31

Questions:
  1. Colonial Williamsburg?
  2. Did you know that there are people surrounding doctors sitting in this Library then taking them out and killing them? (um.. er... Security, get the net)
  3. The German occupation of the Channel Islands / Charles Cruickshank. (pick-up Friday)
  4. Treatment of Native American women in Colonial Williamsburg?
  5. Is that the correct time?
  6. Where is the science section?
  7. Biographies on Davy Crockett?

Friday, October 28, 2005

Fri. Oct. 28

Questions:
  1. Tape?
  2. Washroom?
  3. Ancient Egypt?

Actions:

  • REFORMA swap meeting

Thursday, October 27, 2005

Thurs. Oct. 27

Questions:

  1. Tape?
  2. Allen Houser biography information? (Native American painter and sculptor)
  3. Lincoln's melancholy : how depression challenged a president and fueled his greatness / Joshua Wolf Shenk. (on order)
  4. What floor are you on?
  5. Are you near the Popular Library?
  6. Xerox / uniprint numbers? (Xerox representives? Walked around copier, money machine, and Pharos station 11:30 AM)
  7. Pictures of the state of Florida?

Actions:

  • Obits

Wednesday, October 26, 2005

Wed. Oct. 26

Questions:


  1. I found a lost scarf, do you have a lost and found?
  2. DVDs?
  3. Check out?
  4. Can I apply for a library card here?
  5. 901.9 section?
  6. Monitor for the computers?
  7. What time do you close?
  8. Living well is the best revenge / Tomkins, Calvin, 1925- 92 M9775T (CPK calling Is this your book?)
  9. A million little pieces / Frey, James (mucho, mucho Holds on it)
  10. What are the seven wonders of the ancient world? The Great Pyramid of Giza , The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, The Statue of Zeus at Olympia, The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus , The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, The Colossus of Rhodes , The Lighthouse of Alexandria http://ce.eng.usf.edu/pharos/wonders/

Actions:

  • Dewey Asia Map
  • Obits

Tues. Oct. 25

Questions:
  1. Genealogy books?
  2. Phone Message Question: What is the theme for American Education Week? "A Strong America Starts with Great Public Schools,"
  3. Been in the storm so long : the aftermath of slavery / Leon F. Litwack. 973.0496 L782 (missing & overdue)
  4. REUNION WITHOUT COMPROMISE / FERMAN, M. (pick-up)
  5. Black over White: Negro Political Leadership in South Carolina During Reconstruction (Blacks in the New World) (Paperback) by Thomas C. Holt
  6. Children's room?
  7. Where do I return these books?

Monday, October 24, 2005

Mon. Oct. 24

Questions:

  1. The island at the center of the world : the epic story of Dutch Manhattan, the forgotten colony that shaped America / Russell Shorto?
  2. How do you photocopy ID's?
  3. Law books?
  4. How do I format my table?
  5. Middle passage information?
  6. How late are you open?
  7. Baseball players?

Actions:

  • First book club meeting

Friday, October 21, 2005

Fri. Oct. 21

Questions:
  1. Books on Albert Einstein?
  2. Russian theatre?
  3. History of Costumes?
  4. The strangest friendship in history : Woodrow Wilson and Colonel House / George
    Sylvester Viereck. (CPK)
  5. Mahalia Jackson books? (all missing or checked out, ORDER!)
  6. People Magazine?
  7. 700 Section?
  8. Daisy work here? (shhh, ... nobody calls me that anymore)
  9. 927 section?
  10. 923 section?
  11. What is the meaning of the name Rupert? (bright wise council)

Thursday, October 20, 2005

Thurs. Oct. 20

Questions:
  1. Poetry books?
  2. People Magazine?
  3. Great expectations : America and the baby boom generation / Landon Y. Jones (pick up)
  4. Do you work here? (Yes... Why? What have you heard?)
  5. Sports books?
  6. Copy Machine?
  7. Does the Copy Machine take change or bills?
  8. Organic chemistry?
  9. Genealogy Magazines?
  10. How far back do you carry the William and Mary Quarterly? (1892)

E-Mail Question: I am working on my India project, and I was wondering if you had another site on India's socialization and the social change of India?

Actions:

  • Adaptive Service Workshop
  • Fall Members Reception
  • Website database to be moved to HIST I drive
  • Lucy meeting to work on flyer

Wednesday, October 19, 2005

Wed. Oct. 19

Questions:
  1. Ohio Farm Books? oh yeah, and your library is awful, and I'm a taxpayer, and nothing is shelved.
  2. Why can't I find the Art Ohio Farm Books in the History section? oh yeah, and I work in a Library, and I doo all my research at the University Library.
  3. Great Rift Valley books?

Tue. Oct. 18

Questions:
  1. Henry Wadsworth Moore biography?

Monday, October 17, 2005

Mon. Oct. 17

Questions:


  1. How would you finish this sentence "The world is better off because I ..." (refused to do this)
  2. Scissors?
  3. Scissors?
  4. Maya Angelou's Poetry?
  5. 760 Section?
  6. 92 H section?
  7. Pueblo Indian information
  8. Georgia Political History - slavery (975.8, 320.47)
  9. Can you print out my e-mail? (NO)
  10. Xerox machine?
  11. Chinese Funeral Practices?
  12. China : its history and culture / Morton, W. Scott 951 M891A

Actions:

  • Meeting with Lucy to work on LSTA brochure
  • LSTA Advisory Council meeting

Saturday, October 15, 2005

Sat. Oct. 15

Questions:

  1. Mark Twian Biography by Fred Kaplan, not Justin Kaplan
  2. Caribbean travel guides?
  3. Have glove, will travel : adventures of a baseball vagabond / Bill "Spaceman" Lee
    and Richard Lally. (pick up)
  4. Scratch paper?
  5. List of what happened day by day in 1955
  6. Where do you order pizza from?

Friday, October 14, 2005

Thurs. Oct. 13

Questions:


  1. How do you greet someone on Yom Kippur?
    "Have a meaningful Yom Kippur"
    "Have an easy fast "
    Gut Yontiff (GUT YAHN-tiff; gut rhymes with put) Yiddish. Literally, good holiday. This greeting can be used for any holiday, not necessarily a festival. http://www.jewfaq.org/express.htm,
    The traditional greeting Jews extend to one another during this season is l'shana tova tikatayvu, "may you be inscribed for a good year." Or, in shortened form, shana tova, "a good year." May this be a good year, a year of peace and fulfillment, for all. http://www.jewishla.org/html/yomkippur_holiday.htm
  2. Magnifying Glass?
  3. Where are you located?
  4. Argentina history?
  5. Georgetown history?
  6. Where can you sign up to use the computer?
  7. "Always running" (Pick-up)
  8. The bone woman : a forensic anthropologist's search for truth in the mass graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo / Clea Koff.
  9. Machete season : the killers in Rwanda speak : a report / by Jean Hatzfeld (hold placed)
  10. Just for fun : the story of an accidental revolutionary / Linus Torvalds and David Diamond. (PAL)
  11. The island at the center of the world : the epic story of Dutch Manhattan, the forgotten colony that shaped America / Russell Shorto

Thursday, October 13, 2005

October Reads

The Art of War by Sun-tzu
Interesting text, still very relevant.

Art of Happiness by Dalai Lama XIV

Wednesday, October 12, 2005

Wed. Oct 12

Questions:

  1. Travel section?
  2. Virginia travel guides?
  3. Austria History books?
  4. Eurorail guide
  5. Balm of Giliead by Lightfoot (SPK)
  6. Art of War by Sun-tzu ~ "Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate."
  7. Sanford fire maps (WASH)
  8. Ovid's Metamorphoses
  9. Duke Ellington Biographies
  10. Marion Anderson Biographies
  11. Black Indians : a hidden heritage / Katz, William Loren.
  12. Folder?
  13. Elastic band?
  14. Children's room?

Tuesday, October 11, 2005

Tues. Oct. 11

Questions:
  1. DC Map?
  2. Large print books?
  3. Hoop dreams : a true story of hardship and triumph / Ben Joravsky (pick up)
  4. Henriette DeLille "Sisters of the Holy Family of New Orleans" picture
  5. Robert Mitchum : "baby, I don't care" / Server, Lee.
  6. The measure of a man : a spiritual autobiography / Poitier, Sidney. (NOS)
  7. Where is Canyon Ranch?

Friday, October 07, 2005

Fri. Oct 7

Questions:


  1. West, Bing No true glory:Fallujah and the struggle in iraq, a frontline account (on order?)
  2. Videos?
  3. 813.8?
  4. RFK euology to JFK list at http://www.jfklibrary.org/rotunda_eulogies.html but no RFK
  5. AUTOBIOGRAPHY / TROLLOPE, ANTHONY
  6. Without sanctuary : lynching photography in America / James Allen
  7. Pick up holds?

Actions:

  • Bookmark of Literary Travel Books

Thursday, October 06, 2005

Thurs. Oct 6

Questions:

  1. Guinness book of World Records
  2. India culture and history
  3. Washroom?
  4. Washroom?
  5. Aid to Africa by Gordon Cummings? (no)
  6. Stranglehold on Africa by Rene Dumont? (no)
  7. My Face is black is true (on order)
  8. 92 M?
  9. Pharaohs of Egypt
  10. What is Wild lettuce? http://amazing-nature.com/dld/info/1116.htm, http://www.healthtouch.com/bin/EContent_HT/altCareMedShowLfts.asp?fname=00176&title=WILD+LETTUCE+&cid=HTALT
  11. Old Criss Cross directories?
  12. Scrap paper?
  13. Song(s) Mahalia Jackson sang at inauguration of John F. Kennedy 1961
  14. The Washington century : three families and the shaping of the Nation's Capital / Burt Solomon (pick up)

Wednesday, October 05, 2005

Wed. Oct. 5

Questions:


  1. Is my card good at any other DC library?
  2. Pencil?
  3. Is there parking at Mount Pleasant Library?
  4. Al Capone?
  5. Michael or Don Corleone biography?
  6. New York Subway map?
  7. The radicalism of the American revolution / Wood, Gordon S.
  8. A people's history of the United States : 1492-present / Zinn, Howard
  9. How do I sign up for the computer?

Actions:

  • Pick list
  • Miers folder created
  • Reserves Stats to inclued all FY06

Tuesday, October 04, 2005

Tue. Oct. 4

Questions:

  1. Albums, Children's Albums?
  2. Lonely Planet China (no)
  3. Writing an autobiography
  4. Gang life autobiographies?
  5. Always running: mi Vida loca?
  6. Map of New York City Subway http://www.mta.nyc.ny.us/
  7. Hotels in New York (New York City Days Hotel Broadway 215 West 94th Street West 94th Street & Broadway New York City , New York 10025 United States 212-866-6400)
  8. Women in sports
  9. Is the "Against all enemies" by Clarke the book that was controversial?
  10. Winston Churchill Biography
  11. Niel Ferrier? (editor of churchill book)

Actions:

  • Obits
  • Display: Right brainers rule month!, National family history month, updated Supreme Court
  • Pick list

Monday, October 03, 2005

Mon. Oct. 3

Questions:

  1. Night by Wiesel (pick-up)
  2. Free Blacks in the South 1700's?
  3. People Magazine?
  4. People Magazine?
  5. One matchless time : a life of William Faulkner / Jay Parini.
  6. Lewis Cass books?
  7. Michigan cost of arms?
  8. Funeral services in Great Britain?
  9. Saudi Arabia general information?
  10. "Robert Royal" address
  11. FEDEX Field Address :
  • Raljon Rd., Landover, MD 20785 or
  • 1600 Fed Extension Way, Hyattsville, MD 20781 (301) 276-6000 , or
  • 1600 Fedex Way, Hyattsville, MD 20785 (301) 276-6000, or
  • 1600 Raljon Road, Hyattsville, MD 20785 (301) 276-6000
  • 21300 Redskin Park Drive, Ashburn, VA 20147

Actions:

  • Pick list
  • Display: Supreme Court update, Family History Month