Wed. Aug 31

Questions:

1. The Darkest Dawn: Lincoln, Booth, And The Great American Tragedy (Order?)
2. Blowing my cover : my life as a CIA spy / Lindsay Moran
3. Native Son by Richard Wright
4. The ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer / McMillan, Priscilla Johnson. (Missing?)
5. Queue station?
6. This house of sky : landscapes of a Western mind / Doig, Ivan.

Tue. Aug 30

Questions:

1. Is that a public computer?
2. How many songs are on this album?
3. Architecture books? (720)
4. Help signing up on the computer?
5. People magazine?
6. How far it is it from Washington DC to Hancock MD? (104 miles)
7. How far it is it from Washington DC to Hancock PA? (176 miles)
8. How far it is it from Washington DC to Frederick MD? (51 miles)
9. Architecture books?
10. Can you call the engineer, there is no cold water in the fountains?
11. Books on Names, African names specifically

Mon. Aug 29

Questions:

1. John Roberts and his comment on Women's salaries vs Men's?
2. Lawrence Summers and his comments on women in science?
3. Is there a limit on the amount of books you can check out from a section?
4. Where is the M section in Biography?
5. "Color of Water"
6. Finding George Orwell in Burma / Larkin, Emma (PET called)

August Reads

Dearly Devoted Dexter by Jeff Linsay
Our favorite serial killer is back, and is now a couch potato playing with the kiddies??

City Dharma by Jeon, Arthur
Learn Buddhist way to deal with chaos in the city. I read a couple chapters, interesting but not engaging. I do think that we do create our own 'Hell' though

The Bride Wore Chocolate by Shirley Jump
Great fun, a light read! The receipes will cause weight gain alone!

Anno-Dracula by Kim Newman
This one has sat on my shelf for awhile, alt-history where Queen Victoria has married Dracula? Reserving judgment on this one.

Fri. Aug 26

Questions:
(Today's questions may have some Children's questions in them, since I covered the Children's room for a bit today)

1. Henry VIII and the English Reformation / Richard Rex. (GEO)
2. The nature of sacrifice : a biography of Charles Russell Lowell, Jr., 1835-64 / Carol Bundy.
3. Woman Crying by the phones, can you check on her?
4. Call # 367?
5. Do I check this book out here?
6. Do you work here?
7. Forced into glory : Abraham Lincoln's white dream / Lerone Bennett, Jr.
8. Where are the new books?
9. AMERICAN REVOLUTION / TREVELYAN (Missing, called PAL for Forrest)
10. Modern Irish lives
11. Dictionary of Irish biographies
12. British artists 1900-1950
13. National Parks (917.8043)
14. "A Hope in the Unseen"
15. Do you have "Harry Cat's New Pet?'
16. Do I check the books out here?
17. Scrap Paper?
18. Is the Printer working?
19. How do I log in?
20. My monitor at home is showing a pink screen what does that mean?
21. What can you suggest for my 4th grader to read, who reads at an 8th grade level?
22. Jerry Falwell's address?
23. Ted Turner's address?
24. What time do you close today?
25. Do you work here?
26. Where is the Law section?

Thurs. Aug. 25

Questions:

1. Paper clips?
2. Gifted hands by Ben Crson?
3. Dorn, Frank. "The Sino-Japanese War, 1937-41; from Marco Polo Bridge
   to Pearl Harbor."
4. "A different kind of war: the little-known story of the combined guerrilla forces created in China by the U.S. Navy and the Chinese during World War II, by Milton E. Miles
5. America's response to China; an interpretative history of Sino-American relations [by] Warren I. Cohen.
6. Citizens : a chronicle of the French Revolution / Simon Schama
7. The days of the French Revolution / Christopher Hibbert
8. Fleming, Mickey C. "About courage" (Missing)
9. Confessions of a video vixen / Karrine Steffans.

Wed. Aug 24

Questions:

1. Travel guides to England, Greece, and Italy?
2. Travel guide to New England
3. Wait till next year : a memoir / Doris Kearns Goodwin
4. Hitler, World War 2, Nazi Germany?
5. Russian environmental policy?
6. What does BPH mean?
7. "The dark child" by Camara Laye
8. Washroom?
9. Morgan Freeman's Address?

Tue. Aug 23

Questions:

1. Are your computers printing?
2. Are you sure your computers are printing?
3. Can you transfer me to someone who can tell me for sure that the computers are printing?
4. What is the phone number for Dr. Fischer in Wisconsin who is a psychiatrist? Used http://www.dr-411.com/doctorsearch.asp
5. "What's done in the dark"
6. Give away tourist brochures for DC and Maryland?
7. Passion for truth / Specter, Arlen

Mon. Aug 22

Questions:

1. China economy today?
2. China travel guides?
3. How do I get a library card?
4. How long may I have the books for?
5. Where do I check these books out?
6. Yosemite park travel guides?
7. Falkland Islands?
8. What do people take for granted most?
9. Diana Cooper : a biography / Ziegler, Philip
10. "Freakonomics"?

Sat. Aug 20

Questions:

1. Paper?
2. Pen?
3. Magnifying Glass?
4. Is CityCat working?
5. Technology section?
6. What is your circulation Phone Number? (202-727-1311, 727-1579)
7. I'm donating books, where should I put them?
8. Is there another place to study?
9. Who wrote "Nefertiti lived here"? With illus. by Ralph Lavers Chubb, Mary
10. "There's a Boy in Here"?
11. Business section?
12. Tape?
13. Where is the 500's and 600's?
14. What dynasty was "Ramfis" a Pharaoh?

Thurs. Aug 18

Questions:

1. Stapler
2. The Jews: A Study of Race and Environment (The Modern Jewish experience) (Hardcover) by Maurice Fishberg
3. Copier, large paper? How do you work it?
4. I need definitions for these terms?
5. Where can I sign Up for the Computer?
6. Elena Tscherny's phone number?
7. Hello to all that : a memoir of war, Zoloft, and peace / John Falk
8. Life inside : a memoir / Mindy Lewis.
9. Borderlines : a memoir / Caroline Kraus.
10. Passion for truth / Arlen Specter.
11. Books about the sport of Boxing
12. Restroom?

Wed. Aug 17

Questions:

1. Minneapolis travel guide?
2. Where's the 'History' part?
3. Stapler?

Aug. 16

Questions:

1. Children's books?
2. Children's room?
3. Tape and scissors?
4. Dreams from my father : a story of race and inheritance / Barack Obama. (no)
5. Scissors?
6. Where are these CD's?
7. Children's room?
8. Children's room?
9. Circulation?
10. History of the Mafia?
11. Used books?
12. Phone number for National Cathedral?
13. Following the equator : a journey around the world / Mark Twain.
14. L section of the Biographies
15. Check out?
16. Scratch paper
17. Where is the 300 section?

Monday!

Questions:

1. Rock Creek Park Information?
2. Slavery in Maryland (975.2004)
3. What is the largest amount I can be fined?
4. Do Library cards expire?
5. Do you have oversize paper in the copier?
6. Rutherford B. Hayes : warrior and president / Ari Hoogenboom
7. Rutherford B. Hayes / Hans L. Trefousse
8. What time does the Library close?
9. Dreams from my father : a story of race and inheritance / Barack Obama.
10. Argentina travel guide
11. Christian CD's?

Frantic Friday

What is it about Fridays? There's a charge in the air, sort of like the last day of school when you were a kid. There's something delicious about two days to do with as you please. Yoga class? Sure! Lay in bed and read a book? You bet! Visit the National gallery? I'm there! Lie on the couch and watch awful 80's movies? Oh, yes please!

Questions:

1. Before the storm : Barry Goldwater and the unmaking of the American consensus / Rick Perlstein.
2. Tape?
3. Buthelezi, Mangosuthu G. (Mangosuthu Gatsha)
4. Do you have any non-us dictionaries?
5. Bathroom?
6. Fragile glory : a portrait of France and the French / Richard Bernstein
7. Boston travel guide
8. Scissors?
9. My name disappeared from the computer sign in list
10. Check out?
11. Harry Houdini An Atheist?
12. Bound for Canaan : the underground railroad and the war for the soul of America / Fergus M. Bordewich.
13. "Rocketman"
14. What does "restore" mean in the catalog?
15. Where is the 378 section?
16. Deke! : U.S. manned space : from Mercury to the shuttle
17. Men from earth / Aldrin, Buzz
18. Failure is not an option : mission control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and beyond / Gene
    Kranz.
19. The last man on the moon : astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's race in space / Eugene Cernan and Don Davis.
20. Outdoor Washington DC Sculpture book? The outdoor sculpture of Washington, D.C. A
    comprehensive historical guide [by] James M. Goode.

Thursday already???

Questions:

1. IMPRESS.RESPECTING NEW ORLEANS / LATROBE found at my work can I return it?
2. How do you spell "principle"
3. Tape?
4. Scissors?
5. Where is the circulation desk?
6. North Carolina travel guides
7. Mane travel guides
8. New Zealand travel guides
9. Tape?
10. Why are Thursday dead? (okay that last question is mine- but the question still stands!)

Aug. 10

Questions:

1. Scissors?
2. "Thumbs Up" by Dickinson
3. People Magazine?
4. What the address of the Library in Horry County in Myrtle Beach? (Chapin Memorial Library 400 14th Avenue North )
5. Paper?
6. Stapler?
7. almanacs from the 1950's?
8. Steven Spielberg biography?
9. Where is the Government section? There is no sign.
10. "China Jim";: Being incidents and adventures in the life of an Indian mutiny veteran, by James Thomas Harris
11. Where is the Library of Congress?
12. Magnifying glass?
13. Can I print?
14. Bathroom?
    

Terrific Tuesday

Questions:

1. Scissors?
2. Did the Shuttle land today?
3. "Duke of Monmouth"?
4. Moura : the dangerous life of the Baroness Budberg (NOS)
5. George Horton "Report on Turkey: USA consular documents "
6. National of Historical Litracy Resources

Ugh, Monday

Well, I'm working the morning shift, and already I've made a typo correcting a typo that I didn't really make. As I was sending off an e-mail, I thought I saw the word GERM instead of GEM. So, I fired off another e-mail to correct this, but then I noticed I had typed GEM, but now had put an i in the middle of the word hope. Good grief! And it's not even 9:00 am yet!

In the PM...
Well, the day has improved. I've started weeding the Biographies in my section (feeling productive!)

Questions:

1. Is Washingtoniana open? (Yes, No, Maybe)
2. Children's reading list?
3. YA reading list?
4. "Why the Allies Won" By R. Overy (not here yet?)
5. "How Stella got her groove back" author's name?
6. Woodrow Wilson and the progressive era, 1910-1917 / Link, Arthur
7. Tape & Scissors?
8. Where is the Holocaust Museum? (100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW)
9. Slave narratives? (920.72)
10. Wild Swans by Chang, how many?
11. Twilight by Grunwald
12. Pencil sharpener?
13. Images of Swift Boats in the Vietnam War?
14. Is "Long Walk to Freedom : The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela" still in print?
15. People Magazine?
16. Pencil?

Another day at the races...

Questions:

1. "Freedom Writer" by Patricia Sullivan
2. People Magazine
3. Where do I find Novels?
4. Biography's S section?
5. Peachtree Road by Siddons?
6. Scissors?
7. World War 2? (940.5302)
8. Do you have any "Fishing" Books?
9. People Maga
10. A wind to shake the world : the story of the 1938 hurricane (Storage)
11. MIDWAY by FUCHIDA (Missing)
12. Please order more copies of:
    African-American social leaders and activists / Rummel, Jack.
    920.0092 R937
13. Do they have anymore Luther Vandros prints that are in the display?

Yo Soy...

Today is my Spanish mid-term, and having been out of school for a few years... Well I'm a tad ocupado.

Questions:

1. Military History?
2. Ethyl KOVACH?
3. Travel books on Montreal?
4. CD on Apollo 13?
5. Janice Dickinson- "Everything about me is fake-- and I'm perfect "
6. Andreana - French ancestors possibly a Count.
7. Tape?
8. Pencil?

Meanwhile at back at the ranch....

Questions:

1. Do you have a computer I can print from?
2. Photocopier says "Load tray one" (paper inside, customer trying to change settings)
3. Where are the August schedules?
4. "The laughter and the urn : the life of Rex Whistler" (missing)
5. Crisscross
6. "Firewall : the Iran-Contra conspiracy and cover-up "
7. "Outside the magic circle"
8. Latin Dictionary?
9. Magic Marker?
10. "The bookseller of Kabul"
11. Michele stops by "whatcha' talking about?"

Day Two (but who's counting)

Questions:

1. "Queen Victoria's Descendants" by Marlene A. Eilers?
2. India - General information
3. When was there a mass killing in Africa to create vaccines?
4. Pencil?
5. Criss Cross directory?
6. Copy machine error

Later that evening...

Questions for the evening:

1. Where is room 207?
2. Asked for a pen
3. Asked for some paper
4. Where is 507 section?
5. Where's the pencil sharpener?
6. "Running with Scissors"?
7. Pen?
8. How do I register for the computer?
9. How much does a new library card cost?
10. Who were the min characters in Wuthering Heights? (Heathcliff & Cathrine)
11. Where is Black Studies?
    

A New Day

Well, Hello & Welcome!

I'm not sure if my musings will be of any interest to anyone but me, but here goes!
Today is the first day of not only of the Blog, but my work has merged with another. This means new assignments, and new opportunities! I look forward to both of these challenges.
Maybe there will be just Reference desk notes, observations, and library stuff, or maybe just other items of interest. One word of warning I cannot spell! So, please be kind ;-)