Wednesday, November 30, 2005

Wed. Nov. 30

Questions:
  1. Lincoln books?
  2. Can you teach me how to use the computer?
  3. How do I register for the computer?
  4. Autobiography of Martin Luther King?
  5. Monster : the autobiography of an L.A. gang member / Shakur, Sanyika? (MISSING)
  6. The Willie Lynch letter ; The making of a slave. (MISSING)
  7. Computer Management?
  8. Pericles and democracy?
  9. Reconstruction: after the Civil War / Franklin, John Hope (WOD)
  10. Computer you can look things up on?
  11. Rubber band?
  12. Magnifying glass?
  13. Philosophy section?
  14. Where does 940 start?
  15. The key to my neighbor's house : seeking justice in Bosnia and Rwanda / Elizabeth Neuffer.

Tuesday, November 29, 2005

Tue. Nov. 29

Questions:
  1. Name books?
  2. Bloods, an oral history of the Vietnam War / by Black veterans ; [edited by] Wallace Terry (MISSING)
  3. Why is the Seagull the State bird of Utah? (The gull is considered the state bird of Utah by common consent, probably in commemoration of the fact that these gulls saved the people of the State by eating up the Rocky mountain crickets which were destroying the crops in 1848. http://pioneer.utah.gov/utah_on_the_web/utah_symbols/gull.html)
  4. How many books can I check out at one time?
  5. Where is the 320 section?
  6. Washington DC History?
  7. Bathrooms?

Monday, November 28, 2005

Mon. Nov. 28

Questions:

  1. Camilla Williams? Opera singer
  2. Frommer's New Zealand Travel guide?
  3. The assassins' gate : America in Iraq / Packer, George,
  4. Magnifying glass?
  5. How do I print?

Friday, November 25, 2005

Fri. Nov. 25

Questions:

  1. Does the Library have a wireless connection?
  2. Epidemics in the colonial period? (614.49 TECH)
  3. Pen or Pencil?
  4. A people's history of the United States : 1492-present / Zinn, Howard?
  5. Biographies on Positive Muslim Leaders?
  6. Nasser, Gamal Abdel, 1918-1970. Biographies?
  7. Where is the science section?
  8. The Famous Amos story : the face that launched a thousand chips / Wally Amos, with Leroy Robinson.
  9. What religion was Louis Farrakhan before he bacame Muslim? (Louis Eugene Walcott was an active Episcopalian. His public violin performances began at Roxbury's St. Cyrian's Episcopal Church, where he was also in the choir and served as a cross-bearing acolyte in the early 1940s. His wife, Betsy Ross, was a Roman Catholic)
  10. Can I photocopy this?
  11. What is Persia? http://www.livius.org/persia.html , http://faculty.winthrop.edu/haynese/syll/notes/331/PERSIA.html , http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761564512/Persia.html ,

Wednesday, November 23, 2005

Wed. Nov. 23

Questions:

  1. Charlottesville Virginia travel guide
  2. Can you come look at this computer?
  3. Can I borrow your trash can?
  4. 929 section?

Tues. Nov. 22

Questions:
  1. Videos?
  2. Where do I cheak out?
  3. Venezuela travel guide?
  4. Perl Harbor
  5. Battle of midway
  6. AV?

Monday, November 21, 2005

Mon. Nov. 21

Questions:
  1. Long black song; essays in Black American literature and culture [by] Houston A. Baker, Jr.
  2. Dictionary of American Surnames
  3. Black History
  4. Goverment section
  5. What does the display in the lobby mean?
  6. Does the "Day of the Dead" have anything to do with Voodoo?
  7. World within / Harrisson, Tom (WEE)
  8. How do you spell equestrian?
  9. France and Algeria in 1966?

Saturday, November 19, 2005

Sat. Nov. 19

Questions:
  1. Do you feel a draft in here? (No, but give me time. Hey, wait a minute our windows don't open. What draft?)
  2. Where is the comic book section? (ALA prefers the term "graphic novel", but let's call them what they really are, the part of the collection that does not circulate)
  3. Scotch Tape? (Hey, I didn't ask the tape where it was from)
  4. I returned this book, where is 932? Egyptian mummies : unraveling the secrets of an ancient art / Bob Brier. (Looked to no avail. Handed off to B the amazing finder of lost books)
  5. Children's room?
  6. Do I check out the books here?
  7. Restroom?
  8. Do you work here? (I'm not a Librarian, but I play one on TV!)
  9. Do you know where the Black magic section is? (Hmm, let me conjure up the answer to that, or No, but if you hum a few bars I'll fake it [insert rim shot here])
  10. Judaism in the first century AD? (No, no smart answer here. Not everything is a joke)
  11. 364 section?
  12. Washington DC History?
  13. Arguments about Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  14. Valkyrie Project? (Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945--Assassination attempt, 1944 (July 20) Schenk von Stauffenberg, Klaus Philipp, Graf, 1907-1944.)
  15. Effects of nuclear radiation
  16. Why is the Library moving?
  17. History of Haiti?
  18. Journal articles on Haiti?
  19. Can you help me find this call number?
  20. What is a Citation?
  21. Where do I check these out?
  22. Pencil?
  23. Audrey Hepburn?

Actions:

  • Re-hung pillar signs

Thursday, November 17, 2005

Thurs. Nov. 17

Questions:

(subbing in Pop)


  1. Terri McMillan books?
  2. Washington Post?
  3. Computer sign up?
  4. Where is 822 section?
  5. Who wrote day after tomorrow? (pick-up)
  6. What are these computers?
  7. Where are your new releases?
  8. Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything / Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner (330)
  9. Computer sign up?

Back at History-Biography

  1. I left a book here yesterday, would it still be here?
  2. Garbage can?
  3. Is there one closer?
  4. You mean I have to walk all the way over there?
  5. World Atlas?
  6. Can you post this flyer?
  7. Of water and the spirit : ritual, magic, and initiation in the life of an African shaman / Malidoma Patrice SomŽ.

Actions:

  • Call Number signs in History hung

November reads

Zorro by Isabel Allende

Harry Potter y la Piedra Filosofal by J. K. Rowling
For Spanish class

Wednesday, November 16, 2005

Wed. Nov. 16

Questions:
  1. Chicago Council of Negro Organizations
  2. Who's who in writers, editors & poets, United States & Canada (Aisle 1)
  3. Photocopier?
  4. Origins of the French revolution / Doyle, William (CPK)
  5. Custer died for your sins; an Indian manifesto. By Vine Deloria, Jr. (SOW)
  6. Pictures from the Great Depression
  7. The Montgomery bus boycott and the women who started it : the memoir of Jo Ann Gibson Robinson (missing)
  8. United States Code? (SOC)
  9. Travel and leisure Magazine?
  10. Back issues of periodicals?
  11. Is there anywhere where all the periodicals are together?

Tues. Nov. 15

Questions:
  1. The Atomic Bomb and Japan?
  2. Lincoln and his generals / Williams, T. Harry (Thomas Harry) (CPK pick up)
  3. History of the corporation (title not found)
  4. Black Women in the Civil War? (ref book underneath contemporary black bio)
  5. When was the last time you were told someone was in crisis?
  6. Shaw neighborhood information?
  7. You're not at 7th and Maryland? (oh, well spotted!)
  8. Where is 759 section?
  9. Where is the History section?
  10. Can I check this book out?

Monday, November 14, 2005

Mon. Nov 14

Questions:
  1. Andrew Sullivan?
  2. Diane Ackerman?
  3. Colonial medicine?
  4. Bathroom key?
  5. Children's non-fiction?
  6. Truth & beauty : a friendship / Ann Patchett (pick up)
  7. Our Endangered Values : America's Moral Crisis by Jimmy Carter (no, not yet)

Thursday, November 10, 2005

Thurs. Nov. 10

Questions:

  1. What was the fashion designer Valentina's husband's first name? (Nicholaena Sanina Schlee AKA Valentina, was married to George Schlee)
  2. Do you have change for a five?
  3. Stapler?
  4. What's the temperature in the room like?
  5. Are you sure you don't have change?
  6. Do you have color pictures of the different states seals?
  7. Do you have a color copier or printer?
  8. Blossoms in the wind : human legacies of the Kamikaze / M.G. Sheftall? (NOE)
  9. Lincoln's Melancholy by Joshua Wolf Shenk? (on order)
  10. Rosa Parks color picture?
  11. Do you have a color copier?
  12. Myths of Ginseng?
  13. Jacob (Jacques) Bernoulli?
  14. Luther Vandross?

Wednesday, November 09, 2005

Wed. Nov. 8

Questions:
  1. Valkyrie Project? (Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945--Assassination attempt, 1944
    (July 20) Schenk von Stauffenberg, Klaus Philipp, Graf, 1907-1944.)
  2. Langston Hughes?
  3. Do I check these books out here?
  4. Do you have information on these people?
  5. Watts riot?
  6. Harlem riot?
  7. Detroit riot of 1967?
  8. Riots in America in the 1960's? (301.59)
  9. I left a book on the table yesterday, is it Re shelved yet?
  10. Baby names book?
  11. REUNION WITHOUT COMPROMISE / FERMAN, M. 973.81 P451 (NOS, look tomorrow for Douglas)
  12. Life after life : a story of rage and redemption / Evans D. Hopkins
  13. Off the record : the private papers of Harry S. Truman / edited by Robert H. Ferrell (pick up)
  14. Katy Thomas Venerable?
  15. Miller W Boyd
  16. Leroy R. Callender
  17. Alvin Francis Poussaint
  18. Edward William Hawthorne
  19. Dorothy Hieght

Actions:

  • Morning spent in the Wild West. First a biography of Calamity Jane is found under "Hickok" as in Wild Bill. Suppose to be her diary of letters to her Daughter Jane, with Wild Bill being the father (they were briefly married the diary goes on to say, and later divorced). Then covered Children's room, class needed books on Native American tribes.

Tuesday, November 08, 2005

Tues. Nov. 8

Questions:

  1. Gallic Wars by Caesar? (Lit)
  2. Water pollution?
  3. El Salvador revolution?
  4. Oprah Winfrey Birthday, education, where she worked
  5. Adult learning phone number?
  6. Stapler?
  7. When did George Gershwin die? (July 11, 1937 in Beverly Hills, California )

Monday, November 07, 2005

Mon. Nov. 7

Questions:

  1. Computers?
  2. Almanacs?
  3. City guides?
  4. Art division?
  5. Restroom?
  6. Ranching books?
  7. Should we leave the books on the table?
  8. Where are the fiction books?
  9. Where is the Philosophy division?
  10. Industrial Pollution in Vietnam?
  11. George Washington Carver?
  12. Rosa Parks?
  13. Who's older Neil Young or John Fogarty? (JF May 28 1945, NY Nov. 12 1945)
  14. Did Coretta Scott King write any books?
  15. Where is the Rosa Parks display?
  16. Scotch tape?
  17. Bookmarks?
  18. Can you tell me which computer I will be assigned to? (yes, the one with a monitor)
  19. Royal British Name books?

Saturday, November 05, 2005

Sat. Nov. 5

Questions:

  1. AkÂŽ : the years of childhood / Wole Soyinka. (actual title: Ake : the years of childhood, computer error) (pick-up)
  2. I left CD's on the desk do you know where they are?
  3. How do I get a Library card?
  4. Where is the Children's section?
  5. Where do we pick up our copies?
  6. Mexican war? (973.62)
  7. Nineteenth Cenurty (901.9)
  8. Children's room?
  9. General PGT (Pierre Gustave Toutant) Beauregard biography?
  10. "Mrs Castel's Lodger" by Keyes? (pop)
  11. Dean and Me by Jerry Lewis (on order)
  12. Adaptive Services? (Note: Adaptive services not open on Saturday)
  13. Where is 155 section?
  14. Where is Philosophyy section?
  15. Where is Technology section?
  16. Open wide the freedom gates : a memoir / Dorothy Height (missing)
  17. Napolianic Theater?
  18. The dragon can't dance : a novel / Lovelace, Earl? (pop)

Actions:

  • No Eating!
  • No Sleeping!

Thursday, November 03, 2005

Thurs. Nov. 3

Questions:


  1. Do I check these out downstairs?
  2. Aiming at targets : the autobiography of Robert C. Seamans, Jr. / Robert C. Seamans, Jr
  3. Jennifer @ WEE called, Blogs, online book club, and programming. Hello Jennifer!
  4. Bill Cosby birthday, place of birth, education?
  5. The good, the bad & the mad : weird people in American history / E. Randall Floyd
    920.073 F645 MISSING

Actions:

  • Nasty Pepsi can with chewed straw on desk (Thanks a heap fourth floor for allowing drinking in the library!)

Wednesday, November 02, 2005

Wed. Nov. 2

Questions:
  1. Over my head : a doctor's own story of head injury from the inside looking out / Claudia L.
    Osborn. (CPK)
  2. State capital books
  3. Restroom?
  4. Eminem book Whatever you say I am : the life and times of Eminem / Anthony Bozza. ? (2 copies long overdue)
  5. Is CityCat working?

Actions:

  • Display for book club
  • Monthly report
  • CityCat down on left side (no connection) Ticket # 98197 call tomorrow afternoon if no action.

Tuesday, November 01, 2005

Tues. Nov. 1

Questions:
  1. Classical CD's?
  2. Is Wayne A. Wiegand a local author? (No. Tallahassee, FL)