Sat. Dec. 30

Questions:

1. Restroom?
2. Are you open today?
3. American Heritage Dictionary?
4. Eraser?
5. Check out here?
6. Anne Hébert?
7. Maurice Barrès?
8. Authoritarian Fictions
9. Vichy France and the resistance : culture & ideology / edited by Roderick Kedward and Roger Austin
10. Politics of Maurice Barres
11. Alexander the Great?
12. WWII Metals? (Look in the beginning of the BIOG ref near flag books 923)
13. American Prometheus : the triumph and tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer / Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin.
14. Check out here?
15. Check out?
16. Water fountain?
17. Bound periodicals?
18. Current periodicals?
19. Microfilm readers?
20. Image of SHARPSHOOTER Badge from ww1?
21. Facts on File?

Thurs. Dec. 28

Questions:

1. Copier help?
2. Copier help?
3. Printer help?
4. Where am I in the Queue?
5. Sign in to Computer?
6. Sign in to Computer?
7. Costa Rica Travel?
8. South Africa History?
9. Debbie Allen? (No)
10. Martha Graham? (Hold Pick-up)
11. Computer?

Wed. Dec. 27

Questions:

1. Georges Brassens?
2. Restroom?
3. New York Times Obit May 10 1964, George or Georgie Price?
4. The autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr / King, Martin Luther, Jr.
5. Cesar Chavez?

Actions:

• Ford Display

Tues. Dec. 26

Questions:

1. Restroom?
2. Augustus Octavian?
3. 917 section?
4. Florida?
5. The year of magical thinking / Didion, Joan.
6. Georgia Travel Guide?

Phoned about Ticket 194720. DM fixed correctly routed print jobs.

Wed. Dec. 13

School Without Walls – Dec –13
12 Students
Class: 2nd Period 10:05 – 12:10
Critical Reading
Library Contact: Sharon Vollin

Library card Applications
Planning Jan-Mar

Jan. 10 – 3rd Period- Elizabeth Peters and Ancient Egypt (Building on Writers Researching History)

Jan 24- 3rd Period- August Wilson and his times 1945-2005 (Placing writers and their work in context of History)

Feb. 7 - 3rd Period- Lorraine Hansberry and her times 1930-65 (Placing writers and their work in context of History)

Feb. 28 - 3rd Period- Shakespeare and his times, Merchant of Venice (Placing writers and their work in context of History)

Mar. 14 – 2nd Period – Cause and effect, events in History (20’s & 40’s)

Mar. 28 - 3rd Period- Writing Memoirs

April 11 - 3rd Period- Focus on Biographies of Authors

April 25 -3rd Period- PowerPoint




Schedule of Book Talks (Time TBA Proposed Tues. AM)

January – History of the World on Six Glasses - TM

February – Color of Water - TM

March – An Inconvenient Truth - SV
School Without Walls – Dec –13
17 Students
Class: 3rd Period 1:10 – 3:15
Creative Writing
Library Contact: Sharon Vollin

Mystery Authors

PowerPoint – Mystery Writing

Handouts- Evaluating Mysteries, Mystery Writing Lessons by P. D. James

Sun. Dec. 10

Questions:

1. Mexican-American War (Known as the Mexican War 1846-1848, 973.62)
2. Salem Witch Trials (133.4309 Salem Mass. History 974.45
3. Register for computer?
4. I got a notice that I still have this book out, but it's here. What now?
5. Nobody knows the truffles I've seen / Lang, George (Hold to NOE)
6. Mountains beyond mountains / Kidder, Tracy (Hold Placed)
7. A Biography?
8. A Biography of a Track and Field star?
9. A Biography of a Track and Field star, over 150 pages?
10. Eduardo Galliano?
11. Compromise of 1877?
12. Women in purple : rulers of medieval Byzantium / Herrin, Judith
13. Women in Medieval times?
14. Legends in Medieval times?
15. Who was the Lady in the Lake?
16. Robin Hood?
17. Rape of Nanking?
18. 920 section?
19. History book?
20. Washington History?
21. Library Card?
22. Marion Barry?

Incidents:

• Elevators out (#9 back at 3:10)
• Pharos not up (up at 1:30)
• SIRSI not up (up at 1:30)
• Man, we are a mess!

Sat. Dec. 9

Questions:

1. The Ethiopians : a history / Pankhurst, Richard?
2. Slavery (306.362, 326, 973.0496)?
3. The worst hard time : the untold story of those who survived the great American dust bowl / Timothy Egan
4. Are H.L Hunt & J.B. Hunt related?
5. Which handheld should I get?
6. What is in a Falafel?
7. 939 section?
8. The Phoenicians funeral rites?
9. Gladiators?
10. What is the largest bill the copier will take?
11. Music Scores?
12. Travel Guide to Baltimore?
13. History of Baltimore?
14. Maps of Baltimore?
15. History of South Africa?
16. Coffee table book of Baltimore?
17. Columbia Travel Guide?
18. China History?
19. Women in China?
20. Timetables of History?
21. How do you spell "Virginia"?
22. Copier error?
23. History of cerebral palsy?
24. Stapler?

Actions:

• Claimed BBC History Vol. 7 #12
• Storage books added to SIRSI for Storage - 15
• Circ Books to Storage - 3
• Storage book to Store - 9

Thurs. Dec. 7

My 8 year anniversary.

Questions:

1. The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World by Kati Marton
2. Check out?
3. Illustrated copy of Out of Africa by Karen Blixen? (aka Isak Dinesen)
4. Let me tell you a story : a lifetime in the game / Auerbach, Red
5. Colorado Gold Rush?
6. Mining techniques?
7. Which section subscribes to Atlantic Monthly?
8. Latest Guinness Book of World Records?

Wed. Dec. 6

Questions:

1. Computer?
2. Laptop area?
3. Josephine Baker?
4. The worst hard time : the untold story of those who survived the great American dust bowl / Timothy Egan. (Hold TEN TECH)
5. Timebends : a life / Miller, Arthur
6. Birth date of Tomas Malory?
7. Life on an Native American Reservation? (970.0049, 973.85 , 978.763, 323.1197 GOV, )
8. Book on Tomas Malory?
9. Song of Solomon by Morrison?
10. Why won't the computer let me place a hold?
11. Where is 338?

Actions:

• SWW Victorian England presentation

Tues. Dec. 5

Questions:

1. How to videos?
2. Copier help?
3. Books on CD?
4. Stapler?
5. Scissors?
6. Hawaii Travel Guide?
7. Ethiopia Travel Guide?
8. Stapler?
9. No Place Like Utopia (Hold Pick up Wash Post)
10. Pencil Sharpener?
11. 92 G sections?
12. A biography of an American who lived between the years 1800 and 1990?
13. Ben Carson Gifted Hands?
14. Biography of Ben Carson?

Mon. Dec. 4

Questions:

1. Copier help?
2. 1776 / David McCullough (Hold Pick up)
3. Flowers?
4. Copier help?
5. Language section?
6. WiFi
7. Would a man born in 1770 be a british subject?
8. Holocaust?
9. Hitler?

Sun. Dec. 3

Questions:

1. Nat Turner?
2. Historical Dictionary of Togo? (Missing)
3. Viking ships?
4. Jim Brady?
5. Maeve Binchy's Short Stories

Fri. Dec. 1

Questions:

1. Capital of Kosovo — Capital: Priština
2. Where are the auditions?
3. Hong Kong Travel Guide?
4. The Places In Between by Rory Stewart (Placed in cart)
5. Falling through the Earth : a memoir / Trussoni, Danielle. (Hold placed)
6. Confessions of a video vixen / Steffans, Karrine (Hold placed NOE called)

Thurs. Nov. 30

Questions:

1. I'm bored, what's good here to read?
2. Travel writing about Antarctica or the Falkland Islands?
3. Jokes my father never taught me : life, love, and loss with Richard Pryor / Rain Pryor (Not here yet)
4. Introduction to the sources in the division (Liked the Haskins file)

Actions:

• Storage book to Store - 23
• Storage books added to SIRSI for Storage - 19
• Storage book added to Circ - 3

ALA-APA Resolution on minimum librarian salaries

Wed. Nov. 29

Questions:

1. Africans and the Industrial Revolution in England? (No title found)
2. Juvenile section?
3. Mandela, Mobutu, and me : a newswoman's African journey / Lynne Duke.
4. Richard Pryor?
5. Biographical dictionary of the Presidents?
6. Tupac Shakur?
7. Patti LaBelle?
8. Chaka Khan?

Actions:

• Timekeeper training

Excel page numbers

1. From the page setup dialog > Page tab you can specify the First Page Number. The page number token in Headers and footers will start from this number

2. In the header or footer itself you can change the starting number by typing &[Page]+num where is num is the number you want to add to the starting page number. IF num=2 then the first page number will be 3.

Tues. Nov. 28

Questions:

1. How do you change page start number in Excel?
2. Periodicals?
3. Floor plan of subjects?
4. 901 907 section?
5. Check out?
6. Restroom?
7. Drawing books?
8. What's the name of the author that wrote that Lewis and Clark book? (Stephen Ambrose)
9. Did he write one on D-Day?
10. Computer?
11. Pay phone?
12. Prague Eyewitness Travel Guide?

Actions:

• Storage book to Store - 18
• Storage books added to SIRSI for Storage - 5

Mon. Nov. 27

Questions:

1. The autobiography of an ex-coloured man / Johnson, James (fiction)
2. What is juv?
3. My music, my life / Shankar, Ravi (No copies, is MUS)
4. Can I check the books out on display?
5. Give me liberty by Eric Foner (no)
6. Road trip USA : cross-country adventures on America's two-lane highways / Jamie Jensen.
7. My point-- and I do have one / DeGeneres, Ellen. (Hold WOD)
8. The cultural revolution in China / Robinson, Thomas W
9. Reproduction of Life among the Piutes : their wrongs and claims / by Sarah Winnemucha Hopkins

Actions:

• Storage book to Store - 19
• Storage books added to SIRSI for Storage - 7
• Storage book added to Circ - 4

Sat. Nov. 25

Questions:

1. Detailed Map of Poland from between WWWI and WWWII?
2. What is that noise? (investigated out in the lobby, no noise)
3. Modern detailed Map of Poland?
4. Seriously, do you hear that? (investigated in the stairwell, no noise. LG id's it as coming from the computer, yes folks, the computer is 'heavy breathing' and you thought you'd heard everything!)
5. What are your hours today?
6. When God Says Go by Lutz?
7. Spanish phrase books?
8. Standard oil case?
9. Where does Claire Messud live?
10. The computer says I used the computer twice, how can that be?
11. Do you have to sign up to use the computer?
12. Solvenia History?
13. Sherman Antitrust Act?
14. History of Math in Greece?
15. Jagged Edge picture and bio?
16. Mayflower by Philbrick? (copy nos)
17. People magazine?
18. Iron cages : race and culture in nineteenth-century America / Ronald T. Takaki. (marked missing)
19. Point to point navigation : a memoir, 1964 to 2006 / Gore Vidal. (still not here!)
20. Can you look up these titles?
21. A different mirror : a history of multicultural America / Takaki, Ronald (Hold PAL pick-up there)

Fri. Nov. 24

Questions:

1. Map of Pangaea?
2. People Magazine?
3. Coleman Hawkins?
4. Genealogy section?
5. Africa History?
6. Learn how to do a Resume?
7. Do demons exist?
8. I never had it made / Robinson, Jackie? (Missing overdue refered to FGR)

Called re: jammed copier and old computers still here

Wed. Nov. 22

Questions:

1. Military History?
2. Sign in to the computer?
3. Vietnam War?
4. Post Office on 9th street?
5. A piece of cake : a memoir / Brown, Cupcake.
6. Makes me wanna holler : a young Black man in America / McCall, Nathan.
7. How late are you open?
8. How do you work the copier?
9. Room 226?
10. Deborah Willis-Thomas?
11. Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe?
12. Wizard of the upper Amazon / C—rdova-R’os, Manuel by F. Bruce Lamb (very odd record & Author's daughter will bring in replacement copy)
13. Rio Tigre and Beyond: The Amazon Jungle Medicine of Manuel Cordova by F. Bruce Lamb (Author's daughter will bring in copy)
14. Tupac Shakur?

Actions:

• Storage books added to SIRSI for Storage - 3
• Storage book to Store - 2

Tues. Nov. 21

Questions:

1. M call number?
2. LONDON AND THE GREAT FIRE / HEARSEY ?
3. The rebuilding of London after the great fire / Reddaway?
4. People magazine?
5. What are they doing with the old computers?

Actions

• Storage books added to SIRSI for Storage - 3
• Storage book added to Circ - 1

Looked into vol 2 of memoirs The Power of Chance: a Table of Memory by Rupert Hart-Davis Out of Print Cheapest Alibris over $50

Blog Articles

Ms. Dewey
Ms. Dewey, the avatar front-end of a search engine with results from MSN. Her overall personality is that of a snotty vixen. She's all sultry when she likes what you're doing, but when you're slow she gets all pouty and impatient.

RA Wiki
Found via The Shifted Librarian, the iread wiki, a readers advisory resource developed by Michele Leininger at the State Library of Iowa and Iowa librarians learning Web 2.0 tools. There are sections with genre-booklists for adults, teens, and kids, as well as general RA information. Anyone can contribute to it

Sun. Nov. 19

Questions:

1. The practical nomad : how to travel around the world / Edward Hasbrouck. (Hold to be picked up not there? 910.202 H344 )
2. India History?
3. 927 section?
4. Comparing two comedians, one from today, one from the past?
5. Bill Cosby?
6. Richard Pryor?
7. Flip Wilson?
8. Water fountain?
9. Is the WEE Library open today?
10. The reckless decade : America in the 1890s / Brands, H. W. (missing)

Adding to del.icio.us accout today, I keep losing the different sections for 920's:

920 General biography & genealogy
921 Philosophers and Psychologists
922 Biography of persons in religion
923 Biography of persons Politcal figures
924
925 Biography of scientists
926 Biography of persons in applied sciences & engineering
927 Biography of persons in fine arts (Artists, Actors, Musicians, Dancers)
928 Biography of persons in Literature (Authors, Poets, etc.)
929 Genealogy, names, insignia

Fri. Nov. 17

Questions:

1. Magnifying glass?
2. China History?
3. Help with the copier?
4. Can I check out new books?
5. Can I request books over the phone?
6. Can I renew books over the phone?
7. Can I return a book to any DC branch?
8. Mansergh's India inter government?
9. Fodor's Vienna to Salzburg ? (Hold Pick up)
10. Austria travel guides?(Hold Pick up)
11. Playboy cartoon book?
12. Call number 901 123? (no, but 901 I23 has no volumes attached)
13. The Muqaddimah; an introduction to history (remove from cat)
14. Man called White (Hold Pick up)
15. Europe Travel guides
16. Today's newspaper?
17. Black Cowboy named 'Bill'? (Bill Pickett)
18. 920 section?
19. Bill Gates?
20. Japanese interment camps (940.547)?
21. Spain Travel guides?
22. Greece Travel Guides?

Actions:

• New Copier arrived

Thurs. Nov. 16

Questions:

1. 323 section?
2. 829 section?
3. shaolin temple
4. Pei Mai (bai mei)
5. fong sai yuk
6. Stapler?
7. French Antillies (Guadalupe)
8. Politics of Diplomacy by Baker (Hold pick up)
9. Accidential president of Brazil (Hold GEO)
10. Alaska Travel Guide?
11. 340 section?
12. 327 section?

Actions:

• Phoned in OCTO Ticket# 189803
• Gift book to Store- 1
• Storage book to Store - 19
• Storage books added to SIRSI for Storage - 4

Wed. Nov. 15

Questions:

1. Africanisms in American culture / edited by Joseph E. Holloway.
2. Home of the brave : honoring the unsung heroes in the war on terror / Caspar W. Weinberger and Wynton C. Hall.
3. In the line of fire : a memoir / Musharraf, Pervez
4. Who's who in Africa?
5. Encyclopedia?
6. Revolutionary war?
7. Who's Who?
8. Nigerian History?
9. Nigerian Leaders?
10. African Leaders?
11. 1400 people?
12. Confessions of an economic hit man / Perkins, John

Actions:

• Attended Cooper 'Stand up' Session
• Circ (Discarded) to Store - 2
• Storage book to Store - 11

Tues. Nov. 14

Questions:

1. Check out?

Actions:

• LA training workshop on online reources
• To Bindery- 2
• Circ (Discarded) to Store - 13
• Circ Books to Storage - 17
• Titles NOF to Cataloging - 2
• Last copy to Cataloging - 1

Mon. Nov. 13

Questions:

1. Pencil?
2. What was King Aurthur's court called?
3. What were the wounds on Christ's hands called?
4. Sam Walton, made in America : my story / Walton, Sam (Hold Pick-up from Storage)
5. Panama Canal? (HIST 972.875 & SOC 327.7307)
6. Behind the scenes; thirty years a slave and four years in the White House. Keckley, Elizabeth
7. New Carnegie book?
8. What was the organization that Audrey Hepburn was involved with?
9. Magnifying glass?
10. Restroom?
11. The Negro in the American Revolution / Quarles, Benjamin (Hold Pick-up)

Actions:

• Found RA Wiki and added to it: http://iread.pbwiki.com/
• LSTA meeting - 6 pm

Sun. Nov. 12

Questions:

1. Pencil
2. Muhammad Ali's Autobiography?
3. Sign in to a computer?
4. Shipwreck of the "Morro Castle"
5. Shipwreck; the strange fate of the Morro Castle [by] Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan Witts. (Missing)
6. The Morro Castle / Burton, Hal (missing)
7. Restrooms?
8. Operation Homecoming
9. Lloyd C. Douglas?
10. William James?
11. Agnes (Mary White) Sanford?
12. Carl Jung?
13. Walt Whitman
14. Do I put the book back on the Shelf?
15. Current Biography from 1944?
16. Copier?
17. Akhenaten?

Found Worldcat.org (via Alexandria)

Searching:
ask.com
google.com
klusty.com
infotrac.galegroup.com/menu

Finding Books:
amazon.com
worldcat.org
booksinprint.com
publiclibrary.btol.com

Tools to have fun with:
bloglines.com
del.icio.us flickr.com

Thurs. Nov. 9

Questions:

1. Why are the flags at half mast today on the Mall (Called Parks Department)
2. The devil in the white city : murder, magic, and madness at the fair that changed America / Erik Larson
3. Mark Twain?
4. Rwanda
5. Berry Gordy?
6. Man without a face : the autobiography of communism's greatest spymaster / Markus Wolf ; with Anne McElvoy. (Hold Wash post)
7. The stress of my life : a scientist's memoirs / Selye, Hans
8. Making Woodrow Wilson president / McCombs, William Frank
9. Is that book I put on hold still here?
10. 350 Section?
11. Middle East History?
12. General American History?
13. Government section?
14. Founding brothers : the revolutionary generation / Ellis, Joseph J.?
15. Ancient Egypt?

Wed. Nov. 8

Questions:

1. China Travel books
2. Pencil?
3. Where am I on the computer list?
4. Guatemala Travel Guide, Lonely Planet
5. Antoine de Saint-Exupery?
6. We now know : rethinking Cold War history / Gaddis, John Lewis.

Actions:

• Storage books added to SIRSI for Storage: 9
• Storage to Store: 1
• Gift to Store: 1

Tues. Nov. 7

Questions:

1. Civil rights?
2. Is it correct to applaud in a church? (Depends)
3. Private demons : the life of Shirley Jackson / Oppenheimer, Judy
4. Empires of medieval West Africa : Ghana, Mali, and Songhay / Conrad
5. Ancient Ghana and Mali / Levtzion, Nehemia

Mon. Nov. 6

Questions:

1. Scrap paper?
2. The debt : what America owes to Blacks / Robinson, Randall, (TPK pick-up for POPE)
3. People Magazine?
4. Aztec?
5. architecture?
6. Russia through women's eyes : autobiographies from Tsarist Russia / edited by Toby W. Clyman and Judith Vowles.

Actions:

Meeting for LA training 1 PM

November Books

My Life by Bill Clinton
It's on my nightstand, one chapter a night if I can. It's well written

Book of Fate by Brad Meltzer.
Good stuff, ala Dan Brown. Tight Short chapters. After seeing him (and Harlan Coben) at the Book Expo I made myself a promise not to abandon Fiction, I missed it too much.

Sun. Nov. 5

Questions:

1. Sign up for computer?
2. Sign up for computer?
3. Restroom?
4. Children's room?

Sat. Nov. 4

Questions:

1. Cambodia History?
2. Here's What We'll Say: Growing Up, Coming Out, and the U.S. Air Force Academy (Hardcover) by Reichen Lehmkuhl
3. Tape?
4. Copier?
5. People Magazine?
6. Black Pathers?
7. Copier?
8. Ancient Greek Marketplace info and pictures?
9. Aftermath of World War 1
10. Baby Names (Indian and African)
    Pick a pretty Indian name for your baby / Pandya, Meenal Atul,
11. The Pact?
12. Peru History?

Thurs. Nov. 2

Questions:

1. Marie Antoinette : the journey / Fraser, Antonia?
2. Sign me up for a computer?
3. Sign me up for a computer?

Wed. Nov. 1

Questions:

1. The senator and the socialite : the true story of America's first Black dynasty / Lawrence Otis Graham.
2. MANUAL ON THE ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF WASHINGTON / Caemmerer, Hans P
3. Becoming Justice Blackmun : Harry Blackmun's Supreme Court journey / Linda Greenhouse. (Pick-up)
4. New Jersey Travel Guide?
5. Children's room?
6. Argentina Travel guide?
7. Belize Travel Guide?

Actions:

• Australia display
• SWW meeting

October Reads

Happy Halloween Y'all

Lots to catch you up on:

• The Vampire (British tile) AKA: Lord of the dead : the secret history of Byron / Holland, Tom . Good read for Halloween
• Pirates LaFite by William Davis Very long, and not as interesting as one would suppose.
• Pirate Hunter by Richard Zacks Excellent and flows
• Divided House by LeBlanc
• History of the World in Six Glasses by Tom Standage History made accessible, for those who find History boring.
• And a Bottle of Rum: History of the New World in Ten Cocktails by Curtis Wayne I never craved drink so badly in my life. Fun and interesting, a good companion to the Standage book.
• The samurai's wife by Laura Joh Rowland. Read this on by, and in the pool, in New Orleans. Above the pale mystery, good characters, flows well.
• Saint by Ted Dekker. Excellent storytelling. I know this is 'christian fiction' but not as heavy handed as you might think. Do yourself a favor, read this one.

Tue. Oct. 31

Questions:

1. Reserve for Ray?
2. A history of Britain. Volume 2, The wars of the British, 1603-1776 /
3. Register for the computer?
4. Canadian constitution?
5. Desert Shield?
6. France Travel Guide?
7. Merchant of terror: General Sherman and total war / Walters, John?
8. Confessions of a video vixen / Steffans, Karrine.
9. Indians?

Actions:

• Photocopier system error 159 ticket 185475

Mon. Oct. 30

Questions:

1. MOTHER SETON, SAINT ELIZABETH OF NEW YORK / FEENEY (Pick-up)
2. Funeral customs?
3. mourning colors?
4. Ancient Egypt?
5. Check out here?
6. Bags?
7. The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys / Goodwin, Doris Kearns.
8. Middle passages : African American journeys to Africa, 1787-2005 / James Campbell.
9. 916 section?
10. Is my reserve here?
11. Law Reference?

Fri. Oct. 27

Questions:

1. James Brown?
2. Sierra Leone History?
3. Black Plague?
4. The gift of valor : a war story / Michael M. Phillips
5. Last Sunday's newspaper?
6. WiFi?
7. Death record?
8. Katrina book?
9. Violence in literature
10. Winston Churchill?
11. George Fox?
12. Is there a limit to the amount of books you can check out?
13. Afghanistan?
14. Art of War?
15. Plato's Republic?

Thurs. Oct. 26

Questions:

1. Tape
2. Phone Number for Canadian Embassy
3. Books on Madison?
4. Dictionary?
5. Confession
6. Redemption : the last battle of the Civil War / Lemann, Nicholas. (Not in yet)
7. Sign me up for a computer?
8. Copier only gave me 2 copies and no change, is it broken?
9. Where is the Color Purple planning in New York and what time?
10. Sign me up for a computer?
11. Justin Timberlake's New CD?
12. R&B CD's?
13. OutKast CD?
14. Gorilliaz CD?
15. Beyonce CD?
16. My Chemical Romance CD?
17. Taking Back Sunday CD?
18. 30 Seconds to Mars CD?
19. Evanescence CD?
20. Travel Guides?
21. Audiovisual division?
22. Restroom?
23. Sign me up for a computer?
24. Dance in the Middle Ages?
25. Sign me up for a computer?
26. Music in the Middle Ages?
27. Sign me up for a computer?

Wed. Oct. 25

Questions:

1. Wampanoag Indians (974.4 thanksgiving 394)
2. Vancouver Travel Guide?
3. Work hard, study-- and keep out of politics! : adventures and lessons from an unexpected public life / James A. Baker, III
4. Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac : a critical history of operations in Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania, from the commencement to the close of the war, 1861-5 / by William Swinton
5. Chancellorsville, 1863 : the souls of the brave / Furgurson, Ernest B.
6. Register me for the Computer?
7. Belgium Travel Books?

Actions:

• Mayflower Lecture

Tue. Oct. 24

Questions:

1. What is the Movie tonight?
2. What Teen programs do you have?
3. Government section?
4. Accounting books?
5. Why is there a blue screen on my computer?
6. Where are the Newspapers?
7. Washington Neighborhood history?
8. Where is the nearest grocery store? (the Giant at 0 and 8th?)
9. Library card?
10. Periodicals?
11. Art Division?
12. Library card?
13. Report card for the Schools?
14. Computers?
15. Literature section?
16. Computer Instructor training?
17. Where do I register for the Adult Literacy Conference?
18. Is there a Microwave in here?
19. Library Card?
20. Restroom?
21. Voices coming down from above, around 6:15?
22. Where is the Book the Client?
23. Address for the Goethe-Institut in Washington, DC in Washington?
24. Georgetown Ghost Stories

Actions:

• Timekeeper back up training (ESS id=dc e-mail-@ pwd=Artist)

Mon. Oct. 23

Questions:

1. The Seychelles : unquiet islands / Franda, Marcus F. (Hold CCH)
2. 305 section?
3. Influential fashion
4. No soap in the men's restroom, who do I tell?
5. Is there another restroom?
6. What is on A-Level?
7. Printer?
8. Argentina Travel Guides?
9. Restroom?
10. Is this an autobiography?
11. Lucky Lucinano?

Sat. Oct. 21

Questions:

1. San Diego Travel Guides
2. The long loneliness : the autobiography of Dorothy Day / Day, Dorothy?
3. Can you send a book to another library?
4. What are your Hours?
5. Do I take the CD case downstairs like this?
6. Where are your Blues CDs?
7. Dreams from my father : a story of race and inheritance / Barack Obama?
8. Restroom?
9. Check out here, or Circulation desk?
10. You only get one hour at a time on the Internet?
11. Did I receive a book here?
12. 923 section?
13. Band of brothers : E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest / Stephen Ambrose.
14. Sign me up for the Computer?
15. Restroom?
16. Library card?
17. What color is your parachute?
18. Refuse to Choose?
19. Restroom?
20. Restroom?
21. Library card?
22. Children's Room?
23. Library card?
24. Children's room?
25. Children's programs?
26. Lake Needle? (Lake Needwood)
27. Printer?
28. Printer?
29. Africa History?
30. Barbara Wright-Craig? (Dancer, no info, one mention in article)
31. The Chumash Indians?
32. Cuba and America by Perez

Fri. Oct. 20

"In the Beginning" symposium 10-5

Thurs. Oct 19

Questions:

1. America in Vietnam / Lewy, Guenter (Missing)
2. Paddy whacked : the untold story of the Irish American gangster / T.J. English. (SOC)
3. Can you register me for the Computer?
4. America in Vietnam : the fifteen-year war / Guilmartin, John Francis (Missing)
5. Lincoln section?
6. Restroom?
7. Meaning of the Name: Thalia
8. Meaning of the Name: David
9. Meaning of the Name: Carol
10. Mohammad Bin Kasim (Muhammad bin Qasim) another site
11. Vital Speeches of the Day?
12. Photocopier?
13. Where can I buy Vital Speeches of the Day?
14. Autobiography of Malcolm X?

Actions:

• Title withdrawn - 1

CDMD

Asked to merge all Collecting levels data into Excel spreadsheets for MDJ.

Wed. Oct. 18

Questions:

1. DVD's?
2. Looming Tower (Hold Pick-up)
3. Leona Mitchell?
4. The rough guide to Bangkok
5. Can you recommend a book on the Mexican revolution?
6. The Covenant with Black America
7. The Five of Hearts : an intimate portrait of Henry Adams and his friends, 1880-1918 / Patricia O'Toole.
8. The education of Henry Adams / Adams, Henry

Tues. Oct. 17

Questions:

1. Ancient Egypt?
2. Scrap Paper?
3. Jenny Slew?
4. Where do I get a Library Card?
5. Great Deluge?
6. Is it 5:00 yet?
7. B. Turner's Phone number?
8. Can I use a computer?
9. Where is room A-5?
10. Where is the community bulletin board?
11. Blink?
12. Is there a computer class tonight?
13. The Great Awakening: documents illustrating the crisis and its consequences, edited by Alan Heimert and Perry Miller
14. The Great Awakening and the American Revolution: colonial thought in the 18th century [by] Cedric B. Cowing.
15. George Whitefield and the Great Awakening / Pollock, John Charles
16. Great awakening?
17. Something with the Hours of the Library on it?
18. The Orientalist : solving the mystery of a strange and a dangerous life / Tom Reiss
19. Can I take out two copies of a book?
20. Two hole punch?
21. Where do I plug in the USB?

Mon. Oct. 16

Questions:

1. Stapler?
2. My Life by Bill Clinton
3. Tape and Scissors?
4. 294 section?
5. Spain History?
6. Pen?
7. Double bonds of race and sex

Actions:

• Withdrawn - 2

Sun. Oct. 15

Questions:

1. Encyclopedia of Cuba : people, history, culture?
2. Pinata history?
3. Black biographies?
4. Scissors?
5. R. E. Lee, a biography / Freeman, Douglas Southall
6. Do you have a computer my daughter can use? (would not give age, would not let daughter speak. Directed to children's room)
7. The centennial history of the Civil War: Never call retreat. / Catton, Bruce
8. Striped papers?
9. Clear paper?
10. Bolivia Travel guide?
11. Recreation?
12. Sign up up for the computer?
13. Battle cry of freedom : the Civil War era / McPherson, James
14. Landscape turned red : the Battle of Antietam / Stephen W. Sears.
15. 92 j section?
16. Celebrity directory?
17. Colombia Travel guide?
18. How do the DVD's get purchased? Donations? Orders?
19. Who's who in American nursing?
20. St. Vincent History?

Toyn Talk

Very Good program. 22 people

Fri. Oct. 13

Questions:

1. Where do I put the books to be re-shelved?
2. Book on the theory that Africans where in America before Europeans?
3. Can you mail books to my home? (referred to Adaptive services)
4. WiFi in this room?
5. Closest Laundromat?
6. MLK?
7. Where do I check out?
8. Bernard Johnson?
9. Washington DC travel guide?

Actions:

• Last night Toyn Author event - 21 people
• Silent alarm removed, it is faulty. Replaced later that day
• Check out the custom Google page! what fun!

Thurs. Oct. 12

Questions:

1. Where is computer #1?
2. Personal memoirs of U.S. Grant / Grant, Ulysses S.
3. Landscape turned red : the Battle of Antietam / Stephen W. Sears.
4. Lives of the artists / Giorgio Vasari /
5. South Africa Travel guides?
6. Western US Travel guides?
7. Have you seen anyone suspicious? (in a public library? I'm afraid you're going to have to be a little more specific)
8. Current Who's Who in America?
9. Map of Philadelphia?
10. Diamond mines?
11. Israelites?
12. Tai Chi?
13. Soothing music?
14. Three hole punch?
15. Africa History?
16. London History?
17. 796 section?
18. New York Travel guide?
19. Philadelphia travel guide?

Wed. Oct. 11

Questions:

1. Fifth Quarter (Hold Pick-up)
2. Bermuda : today and yesterday, 1503-1973 / Tucker, Terry (Marked missing)
3. Book on what stars are doing today?
4. How do I enlarge on the copier?
5. How do I enlarge on the copier?
6. Native americans?
7. Navajo Indians?
8. Tape?
9. Tape?
10. Scissors?
11. Stapler?
12. Diet and exercise book?
13. Saint of Fort Washignton book?
14. The mis-education of the Negro / Woodson, Carter Godwin
15. Stapler?
16. Map of New York City?
17. Top Doctors specializing in STDs

Actions:

• Sent to basement: 8
• Sent to bindery: 1
• Withdrawn: 11

Tues. Oct. 10

Questions:

1. Restroom?
2. Check out downstairs?
3. Burundi / Brennan, Kristine (Hold LAR)
4. Middle passage? (306.36, 382.44, Amistad 973.04)
5. This boy's life : a memoir / Wolff, Tobias (Hold CPK & WEE)

Contact - Oct. 6

Contact: Matthew Brandon School for Arts in Learning (SAIL) Public Charter School, Washington, DC, Grades K-9 http://www.wvsarts.org/ 1100 16th Street, NW Washington, DC 20036 202.296.9100

Requested meeting: Tue. Oct 10 or Wed. 11

This is a teacher who teaches History, and consults on another class. Students have no text books, and is looking to see what we have in the way of texts.

Class #1: Ancient History: Rome

Class #2: Early American History: Native Americans

Sat. Oct. 7

Questions:

1. When are you closing for renovation?
2. Where do I put these books?
3. Where are the comics?
4. Scrap paper?
5. 500 Section?
6. Long Island picture book?
7. Reference books on Africa?
8. Black Studies section?
9. Reference book on the Signers of the declaration of independence families?
10. Pre-colonial Madagascar? (pre-colonial period is before 1894)
11. How do I use the copy machine?
12. Restroom?
13. Can you watch this? (why? Does it do tricks?)
14. Censorship of books in the Puritan era?
15. 500 Section?
16. Walt Whitman's America : a cultural biography / Reynolds, David S
17. 920 section?
18. Skara Brae? (The Neolithic village of Skara Brae lies on the shore of the Bay of Skaill on the west coast of Orkney's Mainland, north of Scotland)
19. The Puritan ordeal / Delbanco, Andrew (PHIL)
20. Colonial Chesapeake society (Hold pick-up)
21. Colonial New Jersey; a history / Pomfret, John Edwin (Checked out)
22. A world restored; Metternich, Castlereagh and the problems of peace, Kissinger, Henry (Copy gone. Hold PAL pick up here)
23. Do you have a book I check out recollections of Lincoln grant and Sherman by an author named Dodge? (DODGE, GRENVILLE MELLEN Title :GENERAL ULYSSES S. GRANT AND GENERAL WILLIAM T. SHERMAN Is a BROF and needs a more complete title Hold placed for when it comes back Personal Recollections of President Abraham Lincoln, General Ulysses S. Grant And General William T. Sherman is the correct title)
24. "Whip the rebellion" : Ulysses S. Grant's rise to command / George Walsh (on order)
25. Restroom, other than the third floor)
26. Glover park history?
27. Who is the artist of the art deco paintings in the lobby?
28. Do you have text books?

Actions:

• Delete books: 1
• Mongolian exhibit to pick up handouts for Chinggis Khan

Thurs. Oct. 5

Questions:

1. Australia Travel Guide
2. Working with Roosevelt / Rosenman, Samuel Irving, (GEO hold)
3. Philadelphia Travel guide?
4. Check out here?

Wed. Oct. 4

Questions:

1. Restroom?
2. Japan Travel Guide?
3. Restroom?
4. Fifth quarter : the scrimmage of a football coach's daughter / Jennifer Allen. (Hold - Storage)
5. I want that popular book written by the post writer?
6. Do you have any good books?
7. Do you have any juicy scandal books?
8. What is Southwest library's Phone number?
9. What became of the All State's Hotel from the 1930's?
10. Gothic Culture?
11. The good rain : across time and terrain in the Pacific Northwest / Timothy Egan

Actions:

• Horrors of History Display
• Deleted: 2
• 
  

Tues. Oct. 3

Questions:

1. Copy Card?
2. Copy Card?
3. Five lessons: the modern fundamentals of golf / Hogan, Ben
4. Caravaggio : painter of miracles / Prose, Francine,
5. History of India post 1947
6. The lost painting / Harr, Jonathan

Actions:

• Copier not accepting change, emptied jam
• Removed from basement: 35

Mon. Oct. 2

Questions:

1. Children's Room?
2. How do you enlarge on the copier?
3. Where is the statue of Gandhi in DC?
4. Why won't my attachment download?
5. How do you enlarge on the copier?
6. CD Drive?
7. Children's Room?
8. Government section?
9. 380 section?
10. 791 section?
11. I want to send this resume to my e-mail, how do I do it?
12. America Comes of Middle Age (Hold GEO)
13. Meaning of the Last Name Russell?
14. Honduras Travel Guide?
15. Japanese to English Dictionary?

Fri. Sept. 29

Questions:

1. Minnesota Travel Guide?
2. 929 section?
3. DVD section?
4. Can I leave my jacket there?
5. Sign up computer?
6. Where do I put money on my card?
7. Books on Ethiopia culture?
8. Library cataloge?
9. How many CD's can I check out?
10. Plastic Bag?

Actions:

• National Book Festival orientation
• Delelvered flyers (New: Starbucks, 12 & G, CalTort at 7&H)

Thurs. Sept. 28

Questions:

1. New biography about Frank Furness?
2. What was J. Edgar Hoover's Washington residence?
3. When love calls you better answer : a novel / Berry, Bertice?
4. 370 section?

Wed. Sept. 27

Questions:

1. Vancouver Travel Guides
2. Celtic History?
3. Blue Dolphin?
4. What does a King or Queen do?
5. Cost to Baltimore?
6. Running with scissors : a memoir / Burroughs, Augusten.
7. Argentina Travel Guide
8. Hurricane Katrina?
9. Which computer am I at?
10. Clovis?
11. Mariah Carey?
12. Photocopier

Actions:

• Removed - 3
• 2 classes AM- 14 PM-18

Tues. Sept. 26

Questions:

1. 956 section?
2. 327 section?
3. Calendar?
4. Fax machine?

Actions:

• 1 to Bindery
• Last night 7 at the book club

Mon. Sept. 25

Questions:

1. Autobiography of Malcolm X?
2. Breaking into music publishing?
3. Scrap paper?

Sat. Sept. 23

Questions:

1. 933 section?
2. People magazine?
3. Anime exhibit?
4. Address for Reverend R Z Miller of the Spirit of Peace Church in Louisville Kentucky?
5. Pencil?
6. What is the first name of the Mayor of New York, last name Beame (Mayor Abraham Beame)
7. What is the First name of the Spanish Author, last name Balsco? (Vicente Blasco Ibáñez?)
8. Choctaw Indians?
9. Where do I check out books?
10. Zane books?
11. The stranger / Camus, Albert (Hold Pick-up)
12. Clive Cussler?
13. Phone?
14. Sign up computer?
15. Computer #1?
16. Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything / Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. (hold CPK)
17. The Devil wears Prada / Weisberger, Lauren
18. Washington Post?
19. Lonely Planet guides?
20. Copier Help?
21. Copier?
22. Map of Africa?

Thurs. Sept. 21

Question:

1. Maps of the Middle East?
2. State of emergency : the third world invasion and conquest of America / Patrick J. Buchanan.
3. Travel Costa Rica?
4. What was the Dark Ages?
5. Africa and Slavery?
6. The journals of Lewis and Clark
7. Maps of Germany?

Wed. Sept. 20

Question:

1. Al Capone
2. Malcolm X
3. Muhammad Ali
4. Do you have pictures of Washington through the years?
5. Restroom?
6. Restroom?
7. 92 E section?
8. Maryland Travel Guide?
9. Spain History?
10. Language Books?
11. People Magazine?
12. Michelin Red Guide Main Cities of Europe 2006?
13. Books on tape?
14. Where is this CD?
15. Are you open?
16. Diabetes?

Mon. Sept. 18

Questions:

1. Mason Rights (Virginia Declaration of Rights )
2. Pen?
3. Sign in Computer?
4. Genealogy microfilm?
5. Kennedy Women (Hold Pick-up)
6. The sword of no-sword : life of the master warrior Tesshu / Stevens, J

Tues. Sept. 5

Questions:

1. Tutor England?
2. Philadelphia Travel guide?
3. Books on the 1950's?

Sat. Sept. 2

Questions:

1. Museum Information
2. Assassination vacation / Vowell, Sarah
3. Everything is illuminated : a novel / Foer, Jonathan Safran
4. Can I view computer reservations in other rooms?
5. Washington Post?
6. Check out?
7. What day of the week was Oct 4 in 1970?
8. Confessions of a video vixen
9. Hawaii History?
10. When did WW2 end?
11. Can you make copies for me?
12. Can you make copies for me?
13. Can you make copies for me? (ok, enough, someone else take over please)

Thurs. Aug. 31

Questions:

1. How do you insert a check mark in a word document?
2. Neoconservatism by Murray
3. Twilight of the Habsburgs : the life and times of Emperor Francis Joseph / Alan Palmer. (missing?)
4. Marie Antoinette : the last queen of France / Lever, Evelyne. (Hold pick up from storage)
5. Marie Antoinette : the journey / Fraser, Antonia (Hold pick up)
6. Marie Antoinette, the portrait of an average woman / Zweig, Stefan (Hold pick up)
7. Afghanistan history
8. The end of victory culture : cold war America and the disillusioning of a generation / Tom Engelhardt(missing)
9. Is Paris burning? / Collins, Larry
10. Marie Antoinette
11. Is this the Philosophy Division?
12. Green umbrella?

Wed. Aug, 30

Questions:

1. Pen?
2. PG County Map?
3. Mongomery County Map?
4. The irreverent Mr. Mencken / Kemler, Edgar. (missing)
5. The death of a President (Hold pick-up)
6. Cassius
7. Minor of rome

sleeping incident.

Tues. Aug. 29

Questions:

1. My site has been infected with a virus. (okay, and you're telling me because?)
2. Duke Ellington Biography?
3. Duke Ellington music?
4. CD's on Bob Marley?
5. Calculator?
6. How many books can you check out?
7. Do you check out downstairs?
8. George Reeves?
9. Room 226?
10. Hawaii Travel Guide?

Mon Aug. 29

Questions:

1. What are the dates of the last weekend in August?
2. Stonewall : the riots that sparked the gay revolution / David Carter
3. How do I make the book record not read 'missing'?
4. Yugoslavia Travel Guide?
5. Chaim Weizmann : the making of a Zionist leader / Reinharz, Jehuda.
6. Zionism?
7. Address for Jay Forrest Hein?
8. Address for Sen. Dan Coates? (coats)
9. Running with scissors : a memoir / Burroughs, Augusten (Hold from GEO)
10. Angela Davis; an autobiography / Davis, Angela Yvonne (Hold pick-up)
11. Langston Hughes?
12. Five largest countries in the world?
13. What country is Mount Everest in?
14. Can I add money to my card?
15. Where does my document print to?
16. Photos of Pittsburgh in the 1920's

Sat. Aug. 26

Questions:

1. James H Webb?
2. Books written by James Henry Webb?
3. Ned Lamont?
4. When are you giving the POP division a break? (You really don't want my answer to this)
5. The copier jammed, can you help?
6. Dreams from my father : a story of race and inheritance / Barack Obama. (Hold CPK)
7. Tin foil?
8. Saran wrap?
9. Do you want to re shelve these? (You really, REALLY don't want my answer to this)
10. Scrap paper?
11. Wisconsin Travel Guide?
12. James E. Taylor Sketch book
13. Henry Ford, a great life in brief / Burlingame, Roger (Missing)
14. Scrap Paper?
15. Indian Religions
16. Did Nixon serve in the military?
17. Did Ford serve in the military?
18. Was JFK a Lawyer?
19. Was Ford a Lawyer?
20. Which war did Jimmy Carter serve in?
21. Princes of darkness : the Saudi assault on the West / Laurent Murawiec ; translated by George Holoch.
22. Do you have any books with charts to compare the different presidents?
23. Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor?
24. Prince Charles and Camilla?
25. This weeks Approval rating of President Bush?
26. Do you have a handout to tell how the library is arranged?
27. Are you all closed next week?
28. Can you renew my book?
29. Washington Bar History?
30. What books do you have written about Marvin Gaye?
31. What videos do you have about Marvin Gaye?
32. World history, patterns of civilization / Burton F. Beers (No Vols)
33. Indonesia Travel Guide?
34. Ireland Travel Guide?
35. The killing of the unicorn : Dorothy Stratten (1960-1980) / Peter Bogdanovich. (Hold MTP)
36. Where is the 92 g section?
37. What is required to use the computer? (want to insert joke, a little punchy, so I won't)
38. What can I use to look up books? (Once again, joke is needed, showing remarkable restraint)
39. My name is red and it says go to BUS-07 where do I go?
40. Can I use any computer?
41. Where is the Xerox machine?

Actions:

• Relabeled 6 books
• All alone on desk + 2 full carts to shelve = No breaks or lunch.

Thurs. Aug. 24

Questions:

1. The Jewish people in America ; v. 3 A time for building : the third migration, 1880-1920 / Sorin, Gerald, (Missing)
2. Magnifying glass?
3. Concert tomorrow night?
4. Music is my mistress / Ellington, Duke, (Hold CCH)
5. Computer?
6. Domincan Republic Travel Guide?
7. Haile Sellassie?
8. Biography Reference section?
9. Sheltered by the King by Marta Gabre-Tsadick? (Order?)
10. Check out here?
11. Dallas City map?
12. CD?
13. Value of foregin money?
14. Exit into history : a journey through the new Eastern Europe / Eva Hoffman.
15. The haunted land : facing Europe's ghosts after communism / Tina Rosenberg.
16. Restroom?
17. Color of Water by McBride (Hold pick-up)
18. I put a spell on you : the autobiography of Nina Simone / Nina Simone with Stephen Cleary.

Wed. Aug. 23

Questions:

1. Travel Literature?
2. Is that clock correct?
3. Where is my book on Paris Hilton?
4. Where are the coin price guides?
5. Vietnam oversize books?
6. Autobiography of a face / Grealy, Lucy (Hold for TPK)
7. Magnifying glass?
8. Korea Travel Guide?
9. Cleveland Travel Guide?
10. Do I check out here?
11. Where is the 92 J section?
12. New York Times almanac?
13. Genealogy Sources?
14. Did you ever work for Disney? (Disney people point with more than one finger, as not to be rudely 'pointing')
15. Seminole indians?
16. Our man in Belize / Conroy, Richard Timothy (pick up)
17. Beyond the Mexique bay / Huxley, Aldous

Tues. Aug. 22

Questions:

1. Alwaleed : businessman, billionaire, prince / Khan, Riz.
2. Where is computer #3?
3. Restroom?
4. Cal Ripken?
5. Government Division?
6. Bullwhip days : the slaves remember / edited and with an introduction by James Mellon.
7. Address for Yolanda Walker?
8. Address for Gwen Ifill?
9. Address for Joe Gibbs? (also c/o Washington Redskins 21300 Redskin Park Drive Ashburn, VA 20147 )
10. Queen Charlotte?
11. Mad King George?

Mon. Aug. 21

Questions:

1. Angela Davis; an autobiography / Davis, Angela Yvonne (Hold pick-up)
2. How do you password protect a document?
3. 92 f section?
4. Ludwig II?
5. History of Bavaria?
6. Gore Vidal's American Presidency (We do not own 973 ??)
7. Who is the director of omb? (Rob Portman)
8. Who is the Press secretary (Tony Snow)
9. Children's Room?
10. Fiasco : the American military adventure in Iraq / Thomas E. Ricks. (Hold Placed)
11. How do I suggest titles?
12. Rough Guide to Jordan?
13. Did anyone turn in a print card?
14. Monk in the garden?
15. What day of the week was Nov. 24 1984? (Wednesday)
16. The dark child / Camara, Laye. (Hold not placed by branch, Hold placed on CAV lib card)

Fri. Aug. 18

Questions:

1. Pirates?
2. Five Jewish lawyers of the common law / Goodhart, Arthur Lehman, Sir, (Missing)
3. My computer's frozen, can you come and look at it?
4. Female Brando : the legend of Kim Stanley / Krampner, Jon
5. Fiasco : the American military adventure in Iraq / Ricks, Thomas E (hold placed)
6. Who was Cassius? (Caius Cassius Longinus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Death: 42 B.C. Roman Army Officer, Politician Led conspiracy to murder Caesar, 44 BC. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE REF 937.0603 B942a)
7. Martinique Travel Guides?
8. Elvis Presley?
9. Pen?
10. Wifi?
11. Restroom?
12. Books on the constitution?
13. Can I print my Resume?
14. Where do I log in?
15. My FBI : bringing down the Mafia, investigating Bill Clinton, and fighting the War on Terror / Louis J. Freeh
16. The Empire State Building : the making of a landmark / Tauranac, John (Hold CPK)
17. Roy Rayond (creator of Victoria's Sceret)

Biog section: G Storage and Shelf

• Storage: 1
• Withdrawn: 5
• Removed from Cat: 3

Thurs. Aug. 17

Questions:

1. New York Travel Guides?
2. Paris Travel Travel Guide?
3. Scrap paper?
4. Pen?
5. Sign up computer?
6. When I was Puerto Rican / Santiago, Esmeralda
7. Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
8. Have they banned people from using the A: drive on the computer?
9. 92 Section?
10. Where is the children's room?
11. Restroom?
12. Address of the Pope?
13. Address of the Mayor?
14. Does this catalogs belong in History?
15. DC and Maryland phone books?
16. Are all of your tables at the front of the aisle, are there any at the back of the aisle?
17. Are all of the rooms designed the same way?

Wed. Aug. 16

Questions:

1. A Lesson Before Dying?
2. Biographies of Musicians?
3. When I was Puerto Rican / Santiago, Esmeralda.
4. Can you download a document off an e-mail?
5. Condoleezza Rice Biography?
6. Dorothy Healey remembers : a life in the American communist party / Dorothy Healey, Maurice Isserman (Hold @CPK)
7. I made 4 copies when I meant to make 1, can you help?
8. Paris Travel Guide?
9. Seattle Travel Guide?
10. How do I search on CityCat?
11. Marius Bewley?
12. The Author's and Writer's Who's Who?
13. Bill Clinton?
14. People Magazine?
15. Jim Brady?
16. Government section?
17. Government section?
18. Music industry producing?

Actions:

Bio section:G-O (dups)

• Storage: 16
• Withdrawn: 20
• Removed from Cat: 2

Tues. Aug. 15

Questions:

1. Katherine Dunham?
2. Pearl Primus?
3. Books written by Katharine Dunham?
4. Do you have any books on Nancy Reagan's Astrologer?
5. Who was the DC Mayor while Reagan was President? (Marion Barry)
6. Does Nancy Reagan live in DC? (No Los Angles CA)
7. Do you subscribe to mapquest?
8. What is the phone number for the Rockville branch of the MCPL?
9. The World War II Memorial : a grateful nation remembers / Douglas Brinkley
10. The Wall : a day in the life of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial / Peter Meyer and the editors of Life (Missing)
11. History of TV?
12. Papua New Guinea Travel Guides?
13. New York State Travel Guides?
14. Can I leave my books here while I go outside for a smoke?
15. Is Georgia Avenue the longest Street in DC? (no, Massachusetts Avenue is, and it's tied for the widest with Penn.)
16. Are we in the 20th or 21st Century?
17. Where can I check out?
18. Do I leave my books on the table?
19. Statue of liberty?
20. 92 section?

8 items removed from catalog

Mon. Aug. 14

Questions:

1. Possible side effects / Burroughs, Augusten. (Hold from GEO)
2. Lord of the flies, by William Golding (Hold SPK)
3. Up from slavery; an autobiography / Washington, Booker T., (Hold SPK)
4. 1776 / McCullough, David (Hold pick-up)
5. Truman / McCullough, David (Hold pick up)
6. Nicole Richie bio?
7. Amsterdam Travel Guide?
8. Restroom?
9. Can I print?
10. Congressional section?
11. Where can I print?
12. How do I sign up on the computer?

Fri. Aug. 11

Questions:

1. The magic lantern : the revolution of '89 witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, and
   Prague / Timothy Garton Ash. (Hold to NOE)
2. Japan Travel Guide?
3. Louisiana Travel Guide?
4. Don't call me Madam : the life and hard times of a gentleman pimp / William Donaldson (Missing)
5. How do you spell 'Chemical' and 'chemistry'?
6. Listing of all of Bill Bryson's books that the DC Library owns?
7. Restroom?
8. These books are from the Black Studies section, do you have copies of them here?
9. How would you handle this situation, I've just had an argument with my boyfriend and I'm really mad at him... (Whoa! Too much information)

Thurs. Aug. 10

Questions:

1. How do I print?
2. Gateway to Japan / Kinoshita, June (Hold Pick-up)
3. Who is third in line in the Presidential Succession? (Ted Stevens) (History of the line)
4. People magazine?
5. Is your collection like an academic collection?
6. Mockingbird : a portrait of Harper Lee / Shields, Charles J. (Missing Hold NOE called)
7. Scratch paper?
8. Bohemian live style?
9. Middle East History?
10. Egypt history with pictures of hair styles (w/assist by LG)
11. Jacqueline Kennedy : the White House Years : selections from the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum / [compiled and edited by] Hamish Bowles

Wed. Aug. 9

Questions:

1. Marquis who's who listing for Hyman Levinstein?
2. Where do I check out?
3. What date is Easter Sunday in 2007? Holiday Calendar
4. Diary of Anne Frank
5. The hill towns of Italy / Kauffman, Richard (Hold WEE)

Actions:

• Security report filed
• Pharos brief upset

Tue. Aug. 8

Questions:

1. Where is the printer?
2. Where do I get a vend card?
3. Where do I get a vend card?
4. Where do I get a vend card?
5. What time do you close?
6. Can I take these newspapers?
7. Autobiography of Malcolm X?

Mon. Aug. 7

Questions:

1. Pictures of Washington DC?
2. Pictures of St. Louis?
3. Al on America by Al Sharpton (Hold SOE)
4. Atlas?
5. Atlas of USA?
6. Government division?

Actions:

• Started periodicals

Sat. Aug 5

Questions:

1. President's papers?
2. Map of the oxus river?
3. Pictures of DC and New York
4. DC Nannies?
5. I put my library card in the vend card reader, what's a vend card?

Thurs. Aug. 3

Questions:

1. Paris Travel Guide?
2. How do I print?
3. Sinatra : the life / Summers, Anthony
4. Frank Sinatra / Turner, John Frayn
5. My card won't come out, what do I do?
6. Journals of Thoreau?
7. Tommie Noonan birthday?

Wed. Aug. 2

Questions:

1. The thirteenth tribe : the Khazar empire and its heritage / Koestler, (Hold from GEO)

Closed at 12:00 due to no AC.

Tues. Aug. 1

Closed at 4:30 PM due to no AC.

Mon. July 31

Questions:

1. Information on Robert Johnson (guitar being sold for 6 million on e-bay)?
2. Did Robert Johnson die from a Voodoo curse?
3. How do you save?
4. Can I turn the fan on?
5. Where do I check out CDs?
6. How do I print?
7. Can I borrow this stool?
8. Where are all the big trash cans? (filling up with water from all the condensation from the AC)
9. When I was Puerto Rican by Santiago (Hold Pick up)
10. Alexander Hamilton by Chernow?
11. Mexico travel guide?
12. The enemy at his pleasure : a journey through the Jewish pale of settlement during World War I / S. Ansky
13. Restroom?
14. Can I turn the fan on?
15. Are we in the 20th or 21st century?
16. Ecuador Travel Guide?
17. Wall : the inside story of divided Berlin / Peter Wyden. (Hold Pick-up Wash Post)
18. The Japanese art of war : understanding the culture of strategy / Thomas Cleary

Actions:

History of the World in 6 glasses display put up.

Fri. July 28

Questions:

1. Is the Xerox machine working?
2. Quicksands : a memoir / Bedford, Sybille? (Hold PAL)
3. People Magazine?
4. I'm looking for the book you have back there on a African-American Methodist minister written by someone named Bishop?
5. Country study done by the Department of the Army
6. Men of Honor DVD or book?
7. Carl Brasher?

Thurs. July 27

Questions:

1. Tape?
2. Children's room?
3. I need to use a computer quick, where are they?
4. Norway Travel Guides?
5. Encyclopedia of world cultures?
6. Where is this published?
7. Map of Silver Spring?
8. Someone turned the computer off, will I loose my turn?

Wed. July 26

Questions:

1. People Magazine?
2. Honduras Travel Guide?
3. What is Francis Buckley's wife's name?
4. Made in Detroit : a south of 8 Mile memoir / Clemens, Paul
5. Magnifying glass?
6. Bahamas Travel Guide?
7. Where do I check out books?

Tues. July 25

Questions:

1. Colorado Travel guide?
2. Ethiopia Travel guide?
3. Tennessee Civil War history?
4. Berdan's Sharpshooters?
5. Heathen days, 1890-1936 / Mencken, H. L.
6. Lies across America : what our historic sites get wrong / James W. Loewen
7. 956 section?
8. DVDs?
9. How many books can you check out?
10. Can you check books out with ID if you have forgotten you Library Card?
11. The Blue Nile / Moorehead, Alan (Hold CPK)

Mon. July 24

Questions:

1. Race and reunion : the Civil War in American memory / David W. Blight.
2. The year of magical thinking / Didion, Joan.
3. Floor plan of England?
4. Check out?
5. Help with e-mail?
6. Help with Excel?
7. Manhunt / Peter Maas (Hold)
8. Franco : a biography / Preston, Paul
9. Tupac biography?
10. The year of magical thinking / Didion, Joan.

Roaches falling from the ceiling

Blog Article

Google exec challenges Berners-Lee
A Google executive challenged Internet pioneer Tim Berners-Lee on his ideas for a Semantic Web during a conference in Boston on artificial intelligence.

Bloggers: A portrait of the internet's new storytellers
A Pew Internet study
The bulk of the 12 million blogging Americans focus on their personal experiences and blog to a very small audience.
A whopping 57 million online Americans are blog readers (39% of the entire online population).
44% of bloggers have also been published elsewhere.
77% of bloggers have shared original creative content (music, images, etc.)
44% of bloggers have remixed content they found online into their own creations (mashup!)
87% of bloggers allow comments (take that comment-spam-idiots...you can't beat us!)

Libraries that use del.icio.us
La Grange Park Library
Lansing Public Library - syndicates their del.icio.us feed right on their home page (along with their blog feed)!
Maui Community College Library - syndicates their feed on their “About” page, under the heading “Our Current Interests”. Sounds like a library with living, breathing human beings at work. Imagine! (note: they’re also on MySpace)
San Mateo Public Library - links organized in Dewey bundles!
Seldovia Public Library - syndicates their feed in their blog sidebar.
Thomas Ford Memorial Library - syndicates their feed on a neat little links page.

Don't read this if your squeamish

A patron in a green shirt jumped up and started cursing and moving around. Now this is somewhat normal behavior in the public library with your average amount of crazies and such. Another librarian was closer and spoke with the patron. Calmly she librarian walked over to me and told my that a Roach had fallen on him from the ceiling. Let me tell you he was a lot calmer that I would have been!

Articles

Google exec challenges Berners-Lee A Google executive challenged Internet pioneer Tim Berners-Lee on his ideas for a Semantic Web during a conference in Boston on artificial intelligence.

Bloggers: A portrait of the internet's new storytellers
A Pew Internet study The bulk of the 12 million blogging Americans focus on their personal experiences and blog to a very small audience.
A whopping 57 million online Americans are blog readers (39% of the entire online population). 44% of bloggers have also been published elsewhere.
77% of bloggers have shared original creative content (music, images, etc.)
44% of bloggers have remixed content they found online into their own creations (mashup!)
87% of bloggers allow comments (take that comment-spam-idiots...you can't beat us!)

Libraries that use del.icio.us La Grange Park Library
Lansing Public Library - syndicates their del.icio.us feed right on their home page (along with their blog feed)!
Maui Community College Library - syndicates their feed on their “About” page, under the heading “Our Current Interests”. Sounds like a library with living, breathing human beings at work. Imagine! (note: they’re also on MySpace)
San Mateo Public Library - links organized in Dewey bundles!
Seldovia Public Library - syndicates their feed in their blog sidebar.
Thomas Ford Memorial Library - syndicates their feed on a neat little links page.

Fri. July 21

Questions:

1. Can you recommend an Autobiography?
2. The road from Coorain?
3. Small pencil?
4. Reference library of Black America?
5. Information on the Nacotchtank tribe?
6. A year by the sea : thoughts of an unfinished woman / Joan Anderson
7. GED books?
8. Property listings?
9. Italy Travel Guide?
10. Restroom?
11. Those tremendous mountains : the story of the Lewis and Clark expedition / David Freeman Hawke.
12. Ancient Rome?
13. Science?
14. Did you see that man?
15. Check out?
16. Did you see my brothers?

Book selected for September project

Lipstick Jihad : a memoir of growing up Iranian in America and American in Iran by Azadeh Moaveni. People in attendance: 6

Thurs. July 20

Questions:

1. Where do I print out?
2. Scrap paper?
3. Ink Pen?
4. Plan B : further thoughts on faith / Lamott, Anne.
5. Prague Travel Guides?
6. Croatia Travel Guides?

Top 3 NEW sites I can't live without

3. Flickr - Great way to share, store, or back up your photos!

2. Bloglines - All the Blogs you read in one place, ready for you to read

1. del.icio.us - A web based bookmarking site that allows you to Tag your sites and bundle these Tags. Super easy and useful.

Wed. July 19

Questions:

1. Where is my book on hold?
2. Dark horse : the surprise election and political murder of President James A. Garfield / Kenneth D. Ackerman. (Hold)
3. Restrooms?
4. Biographical information on James J Krebs?
5. Anne Boylen's ladies in waiting?
6. Rocky mountain Travel Guide?
7. Washington DC History?
8. Where are the DVD's?
9. What edition is your "Autobiography" by Madame Guyon? (1917)
10. What books do you have written by Herbert Gold?
11. Magic will by Herbert Gold?
12. How do I browse your books on Haiti?
13. What are your hours?
14. Fact book on the Presidents?
15. How do I sign up to use the computer?
16. Can I get a copy of the constitution?
17. Where is Sociology?
18. Where is the Children's Room?
19. Do you know where the Popular Library is?

Tue. July 18

Questions:

1. Book Club book?
2. Fact book about the Presidents?
3. A Small Piece of me?
4. Perfect Gift by Larry ...?
5. Are you Hispanic? (Native-American? American? ... [this goes on for a while folks])
6. Books on Martin Luther King Jr.?
7. Do you still have the incident report from last week?
8. Book Club book?
9. Color of water?
10. Assassins gate? (Hold FGR to CPK)
11. Color of Water by McBride

Mon. July 17

Questions:

1. Picasso : Pablo Ruiz Picasso : a biography / by Patrick O'Brian. (Hold NPR)
2. What is "All the World' s a Stage Book Club"?
3. Tuesdays with Morrie : an old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson / Mitch Albom (missing)
4. Where is the queue computer?
5. Pencil Sharpener?
6. Is this the Georgetown Library?
7. History of immigration in the United States? (973.04, and SOC 325.73)
8. Puerto Rico History?
9. Hawaii History?
10. Restroom?
11. Catalog?
12. They came before Columbus / Ivan Van Sertima. (Hold PLK)
13. History? I need guns! (355 SOC & 623.4 TECH term 'firearms')
14. Another copy of Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass?

Fri. July 14

Questions:

1. Let me finish / Roger Angell.
2. Left hand, right hand! / Sitwell, Osbert (Hold PAL)
3. Foner, Eric. Title :245 10 Free soil, free labor, free men: the ideology of the Republican
   Party before the Civil War. (no copies, SOC)
4. Finland Travel Guide?
5. Copy of the constitution?
6. The wild Colorado : the true adventures of Fred Dellenbaugh, age 17, on the second Powell
   Expedition into the Grand Canyon / Richard Maurer. (Hold MLK)
7. Campground travel guides.
8. Biographical information on the inventor of the Tommy gun? (Full name: John Taliaferro Thompson)
9. 320 section?
10. Half slave and half free : the roots of Civil War / Bruce Levine (hold)
11. Laura Branigan information?

Thurs. July 13

Questions:

1. I bet no one has checked these books out in 20 years, can I have them?
2. Selected letters of Edmund Burke edited and with an introduction by Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr. (missing, but can I interest you in a nine volume set of his correspondence? ... I can?
3. Can I check out all nine volumes of a set?
4. I have the title but not the author, can you find "Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass"?
5. People magazine?
6. I, Rigoberta Menchœ : an Indian woman in Guatemala / edited and
   introduced by Elisabeth Burgos-Debray ; translated by Ann Wright (CPK hold)
7. History and culture of Haiti
8. A community of many worlds : Arab Americans in New York City (missing)
9. People magazine?

Wed. July 12

Questions:

1. Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corp?
2. Washington / by Constance McLaughlin Green? (missing)
3. Advise and consent / Drury, Allen (hold placed)
4. Everyday life in early America / Hawke, David Freeman. (hold placed)
5. 910 section?
6. Larry Csonka's birthday?
7. What years did Larry Csonka play for the Dolphins?

Tue. July 11

Questions:

1. Pharos is down?
2. Do you want our second copy of a Biography? (the answer is always yes!)
3. 92 F831L, Benjamin Franklin : an American life please. (Are you sure? L is MON CHER PAPA: Frankin and the Ladies of Paris by Lopez. I think you need the Walter Isaacson. Hold for CPK)
4. Book on hold for me?
5. American Indians, American justice / Deloria, Vine.

Mon. July 10

Questions:

1. The one percent doctrine : deep inside America's pursuit of its enemies since 9/11 / Ron Suskind. (hold placed)
2. Breaking the spell : religion as a natural phenomenon / Daniel C. Dennett. (Hold CPK)
3. Global warming : the science of climate change / Frances Drake. (Hold placed)
4. Can I search for books online?
5. Can I renew books online?
6. It's asking for a PIN, I don't have a PIN, do I?
7. Total impact : straight talk from football's hardest hitter / Ronnie Lott with Jill Lieber (missing)
8. I need a state map to locate vacation spots, for my GED?
9. Did you know there is a pancake race in Onley?
10. Books on CD?
11. Paper clip?
12. I'm here to pick up three books under the name of Rubin? (Nope, how about another name?)
13. The Jewish State: A Century Later by Dowty, Alan (request to purchase)
14. Maps of Hati

Top 5 things I learned at ALA 2006 Conference

5. Scanning the future ... the OCLC Report on the Perception of the Library (it's 290 pages)

4. Three words: Millennials, Millennials, Millennials

3. Less is more.

2. Google and del.icio.us ROCK!

1. Read the Blog, be the Blog.

Sat. July 8

Questions:

1. Looking for a school textbook called "History and Government of DC"?
2. Do I check out here?
3. Sundiata: an epic of old Mali [by] D. T. Niane. Translated by G.D. Pickett (missing)
4. Testament : a soldier's story of the Civil War / Benson Bobrick
5. Night by Wiesel
6. Pen?
7. Tim Gautreaux bio information?
8. Picture of a Roman Soldier?
9. Scratch paper?
10. Ink pen?
11. Biography Section?
12. Books set in Cape Cod?
13. I know you've got the sequel to this book back there, the other lady told me that two months ago. Can I see it?
14. Possible side effects? Well, the library seems to cause drowsiness and and increased appetite, or the book by Augusten Burroughs? (Hold placed)
15. I'm looking for a book called "Three Sisters" about Trotsky, the Russian Revolution, and the name Goldenberg, first name Gregori is in it. Do you have it?
16. Scratch Paper and Pen?
17. 616 section?
18. West with the night by Beryl Markham, is that a Biography or History? (none of the above, it's ... Travel. Thanks for playing, tell her what's she's won just for playing Biography or History)

Thurs. July 6

Questions:

1. Do you work here? (For the right price)
2. Maps of Hawaii?
3. Atlas to check out?
4. Color of Water by McBride?
5. Political Science section?
6. Restroom?

Wed. July 5

Questions:

1. Books Aaliyah?
2. Books on Tupac?
3. Who is the publisher of this book?
4. World Atlas?
5. Is there a page near you? (Why? What are you not telling me? Do they bite?)
6. Do you work here? (Yes, ... but Why??? Oh Yeah! They pay me! Just kidding, I really like my job)
7. What was iceburg Tookie Williams name? (Stanley "Tookie" Williams, hold the iceberg!)
8. Books about Emily Dickinson?
9. Which booth do you check out at?
10. How many books can you check out?
11. Jay-z Books?

July Reads

Unshelved, What Would Dewey Do?, and Book Club
by Bill Barnes and Gene Ambaum
Three volumes of a online cartoon strip called Unshelved a very funny and surprisingly accurate view on Public Library life.

The Vampire in Legend and Fact by Basil Cooper
Little heavy on the Britsh and Scottish.

In Search of Dracula: The History of Dracula and Vampires (Revised edition) by Raymond T. McNally and Radu Florescu
After the Vampire tour in New Orleans I needed a little more information, and this is a even handed accout of some murky history.

Ask Your Angels by Alma Daniel, Timothy Wyllie, and Andrew Ramer
Needed 'light' reading after all the Vampires

Rampart Street (Valentin St. Cyr Mysteries) by David Fulmer
Third in this mystery series. New Orleans, Jass, murder, what more could you ask for?

Mon. July 3

I'm Back from New Orleans!

Questions:

1. Wi-fi locations?
2. Restroom?
3. Slavery (306.362)?
4. Civil war (973.7)?
5. Michael Crowder?
6. CD's?
7. History of Rap?
8. The way of a boy : a memoir of Java / Ernest Hillen. (WEE)
9. Homespun heroines and other women of distinction / compiled and edited by Hallie Q. Brown ; foreword by Josephine Turpin Washington.
10. 820 section?
11. 822 section?
12. African American Women Educators?
13. Jean Harlow?
14. Fannie Lou Hamer?
15. Basilica : the splendor and the scandal--building St. Peter's / R.A. Scotti. (ART, not in yet)
16. CD's?

Thurs. June 22

Questions:

1. Spain Travel Guides?
2. Glenn Miller's Little Brown Jug?
3. Canada?
4. Brazil?
5. North Korea?
6. Egypt?
7. Ivory Coast?
8. Are they fighting again in the Ivory Coast?
9. Ecuador?
10. India?
11. Pakistan?
12. Oman?
13. Sri Lanka?
14. Namibia?
15. Paraguay?
16. Uruguay?
17. Secret Daughter? (on order)

Wed. June 21

Question:

1. International Who's Who?
2. Ireland Travel Guide?
3. Can you get a library card if you are not a resident?
4. Magnifying glass?
5. Toronto Travel Guide?
6. South America Travel Guide?
7. Seattle Travel Guide?
8. Genealogy records housed in Washingtoniana?
9. Map of Washington?
10. 929 section?
11. Does JUV Children's room?

Tue. June 20

Questions:

1. Pencil sharpener?
2. What Biographical resources do you have?
3. Dictionary of Contemporary Biography?
4. Contemporary Biography?
5. The years with Ross / Thurber, James, 1894-1961.

Patron mis-behavior:

• Sleeping in aisle 7

Mon. June 19

Questions:

1. Stapler?
2. Fax machine?
3. Bahamas Travel Guide?
4. Strange piece of paradise / Jentz, Terri? (on order)
5. Refuge : an unnatural history of family and place / Terry Tempest Williams (SOW)
6. How reading changed my life / Quindlen, Anna.
7. Biography section?
8. People Magazine?
9. Teacher man : a memoir / McCourt, Frank
10. Hunger of memory : the education of Richard Rodriguez : an autobiography
11. The color of water : a Black man's tribute to his white mother / James McBride
12. Government Division?
13. Foreign devils on the Silk Road : the search for the lost cities and treasures of Chinese Central Asia / Peter Hopkirk.
14. Life along the Silk Road / Susan Whitfield.
15. From Heaven Lake : travels through Sinkiang and Tibet / Vikram Seth.

Actions:

• Bookmark for On hold book club books

Sat. June 17

Questions:

1. Where is the computer that lets you know where you are?
2. What is the URL for the Library testimony?
3. Condi Rice?
4. Children's Room?
5. How do you print?
6. Black Authors?
7. Today's Washington Post?
8. Restroom?
9. Grown Folks Business?
10. Three Sides to Every Story?
11. Today's Washington Post?
12. Where do you check out?
13. Today's Washington Post?
14. Where do you check out?
15. Where is this book?
16. War Movies?
17. Uniforms?
18. Restroom?
19. Morocco Travel Guide?
20. Address for Patriarch Alexius II? http://www.mospat.ru/index.php?

Thurs. June 15

Questions:

1. Oversize country books?
2. Covenant with Black America by Smiley?(SOC)
3. Who was Clifton L. Taulbert?
4. Snopp Dogg?
5. Martin Lawrence?
6. The ideological origins of the American Revolution / Bailyn, Bernard? (GOV)
7. Alaska Travel Guide

Wed. June 14

Questions:

1. Andy Griffith's address (He said he'd direct my movie, and wanted to star in it)?
2. Harrison Ford's address?
3. Tape?
4. Scissors?
5. Restroom?
6. Can I leave my stuff here?
7. Ava Garner: Love is Nothing?
8. How will I know if my reserve is filled?
9. Confessions of a Video Vixen?

Tue. June 13

Questions:

1. Robert L Johnson?
2. 92 J section?
3. Plays?
4. Orlando Travel Guide?
5. Can I use the Dictionary?

Actions:

• New Orleans Display

May / June Reads

Mockingbird: a portrait of Harper Lee by Charles J. Shields
Interesting look at a very private person. Author is also a wonderful speaker.

Gumbo Ya-ya: A Collection of Louisiana Folk Tales by Lyle Saxon
Fascinating look at Louisiana culture.

Royal Blood by Bertram Fields
Thoughtful, and unbais, account of the case of Richard the Third. Often lawyer-esque in its handling of the material. But wait... second half very good, the "What if" end chapter very interesting

Richard III by Shakespeare
Was Richard as black as all this? Ask Mr. Fields.

Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
Maybe it's not historical, but it's a good read.

Jass by David Fulmer
Captures 1900's New Orleans. Great stuff!

Rampart Street by David Fulmer
Back to 1910, the Big Easy, once again a must read for fans of New Orleans.

Mon. June 12

Questions:

1. Book Club Book?
2. Restroom?
3. WiFi?
4. Where is the Georgetown Branch?
5. Budapest 1900 : a historical portrait of a city and its culture / John Lukacs
6. The bridge at Andau / Michener, James A.

Actions:

• LSTA Meeting

Fri. June 9

Questions:

1. Where is the music I'm to pick up?
2. I'm a Musician and is my stage set up?
3. Life in the treetops?
4. Where's the exhibit on Torture?
5. Print?
6. Human Resources?
7. Computer?
8. Library Card?
9. Computer?
10. Library Card?
11. The copier is printing yellow paper, can you take care of it? I'm busy. (That's twice)
12. The world was going our way? (not this time, in transit)

Thurs. June 8

Questions:

1. Scissors?
2. Anderson Cooper's Dispatches from the Edge?
3. Restroom is on the third floor?
4. Ron Brown's Body (pick up)
5. Genealogy databases?
6. The copier is spouting green paper, do something! (wasn't me this time, I don't have green)
7. Computer?

Wed. June 7

Questions:

1. HAWAII'S STORY BY HAWAII'S QUEEN / LILIUOKALANI (missing? Found online version)
2. Stapler?
3. Stapler?
4. Bitch : the autobiography of Lady Lawford / Lady May Lawford
5. Ivan the Terrible?
6. Silva Plath?
7. Spain History?
8. Cuba History?
9. People Magazine?
10. Do I check out here?
11. Life with Linsay and Crouse

Actions:

• Author Charles J Sheilds to discuss Mockingbird 22 people in attendance

Program Checklist

Two Months before (at least):

• Submit event to Beyond Words for Flyers
• Request gift in case of Author
• Book room
• Create:
  o Flyer
  o Bookmark
  o Half Flyers
• Order Postcards
• E-mail listservs & contacts
• Deliver Flyers and or Half Flyers
• Flyer Delivery Locations:
  
  Books Plus
  Pop
  Info desk
  Cosi 12th & G 10th & E
  Magic Market 7th & G
  Olssens 7th & F
  Potbelly’s 10th & F
  Starbucks
  [ 9th & G
  [ 7th & H
  [ 7th & E
  [ 7th & Penn
• Send Flyers to branches
• Put flyers in divisions and director’s office pigeon holes
• Bookmarks to Circulation desk

Daily:

• Bookmarks in Pick list and Reserves

One Month before:

• E-mail Washington Post
• Submit event to CityPaper: http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/listingsSubmit.html?navLeft
• Submit event to Voice of the Hill: http://www.voiceofthehill.com/CalSub.asp
• RE e-mail Listserves
• Check on flyer locations, and place Postcards in locations
• Touch base with key players
• Have you got flyers from Marketing?

Two Weeks before:

• Check on flyer locations
• Check on bookmarks at Circulation

Week before:

• RE e-mail Listserves
• Touch base with key players
• Token for Author

Day of:

• Pack Cart
  -Business Cards
  - Pens
  - Paper
  - Flyers for other programs
  - Tablecloth
  - Platters
  - Refreshments
  - Napkins
  - Cups
  - Plastic ware
  - Water for Author
  - Token for Author
  
• 45 minutes before have a Person put flyers on every desk on each floor
• 30 minutes before have a Person to stand out in lobby hand out flyers
• 20 minutes before Make announcement

During the program:
Collect names and e-mails of new people to add to e-mail list

Day After:

• Thank you card to Author
• Edit checklist to reflect anything that did or did not work
• Breathe, and congratulate yourself on a great program. Lather, rinse, repeat!

Tues. June 6

Yes, yes, I know it's 6-6-06, very spooky, and I'm working night tonight.

Questions:

1. Do you need a library card to get on the MLA?
2. How long can you check out books?
3. Where can I find these books listed in the Bibliography?
4. Maimonides Nuland biography? (in Phil and one here) ... excuse me it's a little off putting to answer your question to your back
5. Education Gap?
6. Transcendental Education?
7. Howard Scott?
8. Leonard Phillips?
9. George Polya?
10. Mein Kampf (speak of the devil)
11. Lee's Calvary?
12. Tanzania?
13. Women in Africa?
14. How much to make a copy?
15. Scissors?
16. Check out?
17. Literature division?

Mon. June 5

Questions:

1. Scissors?
2. Free in the forest : ethnohistory of the Vietnamese central highlands, 1954-1976 / Gerald Cannon Hickey (pick up)
3. Sons of the mountains : ethnohistory of the Vietnamese central highlands to 1954 / Gerald Cannon Hickey (pick up)
4. Window on a war : an anthropologist in the Vietnam conflict / Gerald Cannon Hickey (pick up)
5. How can I look these terms up?
6. How do you use an encyclopedia?
7. Southwestern road maps?

Fri. June 2

Questions:

1. Washington State Travel Guide?
2. Oregon Travel Guide?
3. California Travel Guide?
4. Emma Teal? (Later to be found out as Emmett Till"
5. What year did Warren Beatty graduate from Washington Lee High School (UKNest. 1954-55)
6. What High School did Katie Couric go to? (Yorktown High School, Arlington, VA)

Actions:

• Fire alarm

Thurs. June 1

Questions:

1. Can I use the trash can?
2. London Travel Guide?
3. Marilyn Monroe
4. Native Son Richard Wright?

Actions:

• Friends Meeting

June Link of the Month - 200th Post!

Link of the Month : OAIster http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/o/oaister/

Looking for something like "An account of the manners and customs of the Aborigines and the state of their relations with Europeans" by Edward John Eyre? or his "Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1"? Try OAIster!

OAIster is a project of the University of Michigan Digital Library Production Service, whose goal is "to create a collection of freely available, previously difficult-to-access, academically-oriented digital resources". The collection at the present time contains 7,328,353 records from 634 institutions worldwide. These digital records include items such as electronic books, online journals, audio files, images, movies, and reference texts. OAIster has an easy to use search interface that allows you to search its records by keyword, author, title, or by language. You can also choose to limit your search to text, audio, video, image or dataset, as well as how the results are sorted. On the left hand side of the results page the institutions from where the records are retrieved are listed. One could spend a lot of time at this site just looking at the unique resources OAIster has collected.

Wed. May 31

Questions:

1. Scissors?
2. Who's Who in America?
3. Pen?
4. Another pen?
5. Help with copying map?
6. Washington at home : an illustrated history of neighborhoods in the Nation's
   Capital / Kathryn Schneider Smith, editor. (missing, must ask B the amazing finder of lost books)
7. Duke Ellington?

Actions:

• Smithsonian lecture on Syrian Desert Cities

Tues. May 30

Questions:

1. Edward R. Murrow and the birth of broadcast journalism / Edwards, Bob
2. A taste of power : a Black woman's story / Brown, Elaine
3. Copy machine?
4. Business Law?
5. Audio Books?
6. Western Civilization?

Sat. May 27

Questions:

1. Samuel Champlain
2. Business division
3. Cereal Killer McKevett, G. A.
4. Sign up issues
5. Man for himself by Fromm
6. Audio Books?
7. Check out?
8. Library Card?
9. Sports Illustrated?
10. Post?
11. Cobra 2 (marked missing)
12. Reflecting black : African-American cultural criticism / Michael Eric Dyson
13. South Dakota history
14. Indians in South Dakota
15. 92 k section?
16. Cleopatra?
17. Ancient Egypt?
18. West with the night?
19. Where are the graphic novels?
20. Copy machine?
21. Check out?
22. Thesaurus?
23. Pyramids?
24. South Africa Travel guide?
25. Southern Africa Travel guide?

Fri. May 26

Lead Workshop on Blogs

Thurs. May 25

Questions:

1. Sailing alone around the world / Slocum, Joshua
2. Check out here?
3. I don't have my library card, can I still check out?
4. Baltimore Travel Guide?
5. Chuck Brown?
6. Scissors?

Wed. May 24

Questions:

1. Mexican leader?
2. Frieda Kahlo?
3. Check out books here?
4. Epidemics, vaccines?
5. Polio?
6. Check out books here?
7. Stonewall riots?
8. Book Club Book?

Actions:

• Incident eating in the library

Tues. May 23

Questions:

1. 330 Ref
2. Black Indian relations (306.7, Black Indians 970.0049 K19)
3. Scissors?
4. Industrial Revolution. Almanac / James L. Outman?
5. Where Do I put the change in for the copier?

Mon. May 22

Questions:

1. Robert Byrd: Child Of The Appalachian Coalfields?
2. Black men's thinking in France?
3. 920 section?
4. Computer sign up?
5. Is that time correct?
6. Dominican Republic Travel guide?
7. Night
8. Baltimore 1861
9. John Ringling? (full name John Ringing North)

Actions:

Book Club May Book details 6 in attendance

Sat. May 20

At the Book Expo still!

Stopped for talk on Libraries and communities and Authors@yourLibrary.

Ouch, hurt so much from yesterday
... Must continue
....Must get books

Fri. May 19

Book Expo!

Lots of books, authors and free stuff!

Thurs. May 18

Questions:

1. History of Ivory Coast?
2. Sterling Brown?
3. Magnifying glass?
4. Into the wild / Krakauer, Jon
5. West Africa Travel Guide?
6. From the heart / Cash, June Carter (CPK)

Wed. May 17

Questions:

1. Selena Quintanilla? (known only as Selena)
2. Sign up computer?
3. Duke Ellington?
4. Where would 92 e be?
5. Check out here?
6. Is there a class upstairs with you?
7. From plantation to ghetto / by August Meier and Elliott Rudwick
8. Korea / by Jill Dubois

Tue. May 16

Questions:

1. Art Division?
2. South Africa History
3. 925 section?
4. I am Iman / Iman (order?)
5. Where's the Librarian in Charge Schedule?
6. Where is the sign up computer?

Mon. May 15

Questions:

1. Ancient Greek Trials?
2. Sidney Poitier?
3. Do I check books out here?
4. Roxana Barry Robinson's Birthday, education, and marital status?
5. Can you look at this list of books and tell me where in the library I might find them?
6. Nearest Restroom?
7. Copy of a Customer Complaint Form?
8. History of Euro Disney?

NY Times artice

The New York Times

May 14, 2006
Scan This Book!
By KEVIN KELLY

Correction Appended

In several dozen nondescript office buildings around the world, thousands of hourly workers bend over table-top scanners and haul dusty books into high-tech scanning booths. They are assembling the universal library page by page.

The dream is an old one: to have in one place all knowledge, past and present. All books, all documents, all conceptual works, in all languages. It is a familiar hope, in part because long ago we briefly built such a library. The great library at Alexandria, constructed around 300 B.C., was designed to hold all the scrolls circulating in the known world. At one time or another, the library held about half a million scrolls, estimated to have been between 30 and 70 percent of all books in existence then. But even before this great library was lost, the moment when all knowledge could be housed in a single building had passed. Since then, the constant expansion of information has overwhelmed our capacity to contain it. For 2,000 years, the universal library, together with other perennial longings like invisibility cloaks, antigravity shoes and paperless offices, has been a mythical dream that kept receding further into the infinite future.

Until now. When Google announced in December 2004 that it would digitally scan the books of five major research libraries to make their contents searchable, the promise of a universal library was resurrected. Indeed, the explosive rise of the Web, going from nothing to everything in one decade, has encouraged us to believe in the impossible again. Might the long-heralded great library of all knowledge really be within our grasp?

Brewster Kahle, an archivist overseeing another scanning project, says that the universal library is now within reach. "This is our chance to one-up the Greeks!" he shouts. "It is really possible with the technology of today, not tomorrow. We can provide all the works of humankind to all the people of the world. It will be an achievement remembered for all time, like putting a man on the moon." And unlike the libraries of old, which were restricted to the elite, this library would be truly democratic, offering every book to every person.

But the technology that will bring us a planetary source of all written material will also, in the same gesture, transform the nature of what we now call the book and the libraries that hold them. The universal library and its "books" will be unlike any library or books we have known. Pushing us rapidly toward that Eden of everything, and away from the paradigm of the physical paper tome, is the hot technology of the search engine.

1. Scanning the Library of Libraries

Scanning technology has been around for decades, but digitized books didn't make much sense until recently, when search engines like Google, Yahoo, Ask and MSN came along. When millions of books have been scanned and their texts are made available in a single database, search technology will enable us to grab and read any book ever written. Ideally, in such a complete library we should also be able to read any article ever written in any newspaper, magazine or journal. And why stop there? The universal library should include a copy of every painting, photograph, film and piece of music produced by all artists, present and past. Still more, it should include all radio and television broadcasts. Commercials too. And how can we forget the Web? The grand library naturally needs a copy of the billions of dead Web pages no longer online and the tens of millions of blog posts now gone — the ephemeral literature of our time. In short, the entire works of humankind, from the beginning of recorded history, in all languages, available to all people, all the time.

This is a very big library. But because of digital technology, you'll be able to reach inside it from almost any device that sports a screen. From the days of Sumerian clay tablets till now, humans have "published" at least 32 million books, 750 million articles and essays, 25 million songs, 500 million images, 500,000 movies, 3 million videos, TV shows and short films and 100 billion public Web pages. All this material is currently contained in all the libraries and archives of the world. When fully digitized, the whole lot could be compressed (at current technological rates) onto 50 petabyte hard disks. Today you need a building about the size of a small-town library to house 50 petabytes. With tomorrow's technology, it will all fit onto your iPod. When that happens, the library of all libraries will ride in your purse or wallet — if it doesn't plug directly into your brain with thin white cords. Some people alive today are surely hoping that they die before such things happen, and others, mostly the young, want to know what's taking so long. (Could we get it up and running by next week? They have a history project due.)

Technology accelerates the migration of all we know into the universal form of digital bits. Nikon will soon quit making film cameras for consumers, and Minolta already has: better think digital photos from now on. Nearly 100 percent of all contemporary recorded music has already been digitized, much of it by fans. About one-tenth of the 500,000 or so movies listed on the Internet Movie Database are now digitized on DVD. But because of copyright issues and the physical fact of the need to turn pages, the digitization of books has proceeded at a relative crawl. At most, one book in 20 has moved from analog to digital. So far, the universal library is a library without many books.

But that is changing very fast. Corporations and libraries around the world are now scanning about a million books per year. Amazon has digitized several hundred thousand contemporary books. In the heart of Silicon Valley, Stanford University (one of the five libraries collaborating with Google) is scanning its eight-million-book collection using a state-of-the art robot from the Swiss company 4DigitalBooks. This machine, the size of a small S.U.V., automatically turns the pages of each book as it scans it, at the rate of 1,000 pages per hour. A human operator places a book in a flat carriage, and then pneumatic robot fingers flip the pages — delicately enough to handle rare volumes — under the scanning eyes of digital cameras.

Like many other functions in our global economy, however, the real work has been happening far away, while we sleep. We are outsourcing the scanning of the universal library. Superstar, an entrepreneurial company based in Beijing, has scanned every book from 900 university libraries in China. It has already digitized 1.3 million unique titles in Chinese, which it estimates is about half of all the books published in the Chinese language since 1949. It costs $30 to scan a book at Stanford but only $10 in China.

Raj Reddy, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, decided to move a fair-size English-language library to where the cheap subsidized scanners were. In 2004, he borrowed 30,000 volumes from the storage rooms of the Carnegie Mellon library and the Carnegie Library and packed them off to China in a single shipping container to be scanned by an assembly line of workers paid by the Chinese. His project, which he calls the Million Book Project, is churning out 100,000 pages per day at 20 scanning stations in India and China. Reddy hopes to reach a million digitized books in two years.

The idea is to seed the bookless developing world with easily available texts. Superstar sells copies of books it scans back to the same university libraries it scans from. A university can expand a typical 60,000-volume library into a 1.3 million-volume one overnight. At about 50 cents per digital book acquired, it's a cheap way for a library to increase its collection. Bill McCoy, the general manager of Adobe's e-publishing business, says: "Some of us have thousands of books at home, can walk to wonderful big-box bookstores and well-stocked libraries and can get Amazon.com to deliver next day. The most dramatic effect of digital libraries will be not on us, the well-booked, but on the billions of people worldwide who are underserved by ordinary paper books." It is these underbooked — students in Mali, scientists in Kazakhstan, elderly people in Peru — whose lives will be transformed when even the simplest unadorned version of the universal library is placed in their hands.

2. What Happens When Books Connect

The least important, but most discussed, aspects of digital reading have been these contentious questions: Will we give up the highly evolved technology of ink on paper and instead read on cumbersome machines? Or will we keep reading our paperbacks on the beach? For now, the answer is yes to both. Yes, publishers have lost millions of dollars on the long-prophesied e-book revolution that never occurred, while the number of physical books sold in the world each year continues to grow. At the same time, there are already more than a half a billion PDF documents on the Web that people happily read on computers without printing them out, and still more people now spend hours watching movies on microscopic cellphone screens. The arsenal of our current display technology — from handheld gizmos to large flat screens — is already good enough to move books to their next stage of evolution: a full digital scan.

Yet the common vision of the library's future (even the e-book future) assumes that books will remain isolated items, independent from one another, just as they are on shelves in your public library. There, each book is pretty much unaware of the ones next to it. When an author completes a work, it is fixed and finished. Its only movement comes when a reader picks it up to animate it with his or her imagination. In this vision, the main advantage of the coming digital library is portability — the nifty translation of a book's full text into bits, which permits it to be read on a screen anywhere. But this vision misses the chief revolution birthed by scanning books: in the universal library, no book will be an island.

Turning inked letters into electronic dots that can be read on a screen is simply the first essential step in creating this new library. The real magic will come in the second act, as each word in each book is cross-linked, clustered, cited, extracted, indexed, analyzed, annotated, remixed, reassembled and woven deeper into the culture than ever before. In the new world of books, every bit informs another; every page reads all the other pages.

In recent years, hundreds of thousands of enthusiastic amateurs have written and cross-referenced an entire online encyclopedia called Wikipedia. Buoyed by this success, many nerds believe that a billion readers can reliably weave together the pages of old books, one hyperlink at a time. Those with a passion for a special subject, obscure author or favorite book will, over time, link up its important parts. Multiply that simple generous act by millions of readers, and the universal library can be integrated in full, by fans for fans.

In addition to a link, which explicitly connects one word or sentence or book to another, readers will also be able to add tags, a recent innovation on the Web but already a popular one. A tag is a public annotation, like a keyword or category name, that is hung on a file, page, picture or song, enabling anyone to search for that file. For instance, on the photo-sharing site Flickr, hundreds of viewers will "tag" a photo submitted by another user with their own simple classifications of what they think the picture is about: "goat," "Paris," "goofy," "beach party." Because tags are user-generated, when they move to the realm of books, they will be assigned faster, range wider and serve better than out-of-date schemes like the Dewey Decimal System, particularly in frontier or fringe areas like nanotechnology or body modification.

The link and the tag may be two of the most important inventions of the last 50 years. They get their initial wave of power when we first code them into bits of text, but their real transformative energies fire up as ordinary users click on them in the course of everyday Web surfing, unaware that each humdrum click "votes" on a link, elevating its rank of relevance. You may think you are just browsing, casually inspecting this paragraph or that page, but in fact you are anonymously marking up the Web with bread crumbs of attention. These bits of interest are gathered and analyzed by search engines in order to strengthen the relationship between the end points of every link and the connections suggested by each tag. This is a type of intelligence common on the Web, but previously foreign to the world of books.

Once a book has been integrated into the new expanded library by means of this linking, its text will no longer be separate from the text in other books. For instance, today a serious nonfiction book will usually have a bibliography and some kind of footnotes. When books are deeply linked, you'll be able to click on the title in any bibliography or any footnote and find the actual book referred to in the footnote. The books referenced in that book's bibliography will themselves be available, and so you can hop through the library in the same way we hop through Web links, traveling from footnote to footnote to footnote until you reach the bottom of things.

Next come the words. Just as a Web article on, say, aquariums, can have some of its words linked to definitions of fish terms, any and all words in a digitized book can be hyperlinked to other parts of other books. Books, including fiction, will become a web of names and a community of ideas.

Search engines are transforming our culture because they harness the power of relationships, which is all links really are. There are about 100 billion Web pages, and each page holds, on average, 10 links. That's a trillion electrified connections coursing through the Web. This tangle of relationships is precisely what gives the Web its immense force. The static world of book knowledge is about to be transformed by the same elevation of relationships, as each page in a book discovers other pages and other books. Once text is digital, books seep out of their bindings and weave themselves together. The collective intelligence of a library allows us to see things we can't see in a single, isolated book.

When books are digitized, reading becomes a community activity. Bookmarks can be shared with fellow readers. Marginalia can be broadcast. Bibliographies swapped. You might get an alert that your friend Carl has annotated a favorite book of yours. A moment later, his links are yours. In a curious way, the universal library becomes one very, very, very large single text: the world's only book.

3. Books: The Liquid Version

At the same time, once digitized, books can be unraveled into single pages or be reduced further, into snippets of a page. These snippets will be remixed into reordered books and virtual bookshelves. Just as the music audience now juggles and reorders songs into new albums (or "playlists," as they are called in iTunes), the universal library will encourage the creation of virtual "bookshelves" — a collection of texts, some as short as a paragraph, others as long as entire books, that form a library shelf's worth of specialized information. And as with music playlists, once created, these "bookshelves" will be published and swapped in the public commons. Indeed, some authors will begin to write books to be read as snippets or to be remixed as pages. The ability to purchase, read and manipulate individual pages or sections is surely what will drive reference books (cookbooks, how-to manuals, travel guides) in the future. You might concoct your own "cookbook shelf" of Cajun recipes compiled from many different sources; it would include Web pages, magazine clippings and entire Cajun cookbooks. Amazon currently offers you a chance to publish your own bookshelves (Amazon calls them "listmanias") as annotated lists of books you want to recommend on a particular esoteric subject. And readers are already using Google Book Search to round up minilibraries on a certain topic — all books about Sweden, for instance, or books on clocks. Once snippets, articles and pages of books become ubiquitous, shuffle-able and transferable, users will earn prestige and perhaps income for curating an excellent collection.

Libraries (as well as many individuals) aren't eager to relinquish ink-on-paper editions, because the printed book is by far the most durable and reliable backup technology we have. Printed books require no mediating device to read and thus are immune to technological obsolescence. Paper is also extremely stable, compared with, say, hard drives or even CD's. In this way, the stability and fixity of a bound book is a blessing. It sits there unchanging, true to its original creation. But it sits alone.

So what happens when all the books in the world become a single liquid fabric of interconnected words and ideas? Four things: First, works on the margins of popularity will find a small audience larger than the near-zero audience they usually have now. Far out in the "long tail" of the distribution curve — that extended place of low-to-no sales where most of the books in the world live — digital interlinking will lift the readership of almost any title, no matter how esoteric. Second, the universal library will deepen our grasp of history, as every original document in the course of civilization is scanned and cross-linked. Third, the universal library of all books will cultivate a new sense of authority. If you can truly incorporate all texts — past and present, multilingual — on a particular subject, then you can have a clearer sense of what we as a civilization, a species, do know and don't know. The white spaces of our collective ignorance are highlighted, while the golden peaks of our knowledge are drawn with completeness. This degree of authority is only rarely achieved in scholarship today, but it will become routine.

Finally, the full, complete universal library of all works becomes more than just a better Ask Jeeves. Search on the Web becomes a new infrastructure for entirely new functions and services. Right now, if you mash up Google Maps and Monster.com, you get maps of where jobs are located by salary. In the same way, it is easy to see that in the great library, everything that has ever been written about, for example, Trafalgar Square in London could be present on that spot via a screen. In the same way, every object, event or location on earth would "know" everything that has ever been written about it in any book, in any language, at any time. From this deep structuring of knowledge comes a new culture of interaction and participation.

The main drawback of this vision is a big one. So far, the universal library lacks books. Despite the best efforts of bloggers and the creators of the Wikipedia, most of the world's expertise still resides in books. And a universal library without the contents of books is no universal library at all.

There are dozens of excellent reasons that books should quickly be made part of the emerging Web. But so far they have not been, at least not in great numbers. And there is only one reason: the hegemony of the copy.

4. The Triumph of the Copy

The desire of all creators is for their works to find their way into all minds. A text, a melody, a picture or a story succeeds best if it is connected to as many ideas and other works as possible. Ideally, over time a work becomes so entangled in a culture that it appears to be inseparable from it, in the way that the Bible, Shakespeare's plays, "Cinderella" and the Mona Lisa are inseparable from ours. This tendency for creative ideas to infiltrate other works is great news for culture. In fact, this commingling of creations is culture.

In preindustrial times, exact copies of a work were rare for a simple reason: it was much easier to make your own version of a creation than to duplicate someone else's exactly. The amount of energy and attention needed to copy a scroll exactly, word for word, or to replicate a painting stroke by stroke exceeded the cost of paraphrasing it in your own style. So most works were altered, and often improved, by the borrower before they were passed on. Fairy tales evolved mythic depth as many different authors worked on them and as they migrated from spoken tales to other media (theater, music, painting). This system worked well for audiences and performers, but the only way for most creators to earn a living from their works was through the support of patrons.

That ancient economics of creation was overturned at the dawn of the industrial age by the technologies of mass production. Suddenly, the cost of duplication was lower than the cost of appropriation. With the advent of the printing press, it was now cheaper to print thousands of exact copies of a manuscript than to alter one by hand. Copy makers could profit more than creators. This imbalance led to the technology of copyright, which established a new order. Copyright bestowed upon the creator of a work a temporary monopoly — for 14 years, in the United States — over any copies of the work. The idea was to encourage authors and artists to create yet more works that could be cheaply copied and thus fill the culture with public works.

Not coincidentally, public libraries first began to flourish with the advent of cheap copies. Before the industrial age, libraries were primarily the property of the wealthy elite. With mass production, every small town could afford to put duplicates of the greatest works of humanity on wooden shelves in the village square. Mass access to public-library books inspired scholarship, reviewing and education, activities exempted in part from the monopoly of copyright in the United States because they moved creative works toward the public commons sooner, weaving them into the fabric of common culture while still remaining under the author's copyright. These are now known as "fair uses."

This wonderful balance was undone by good intentions. The first was a new copyright law passed by Congress in 1976. According to the new law, creators no longer had to register or renew copyright; the simple act of creating something bestowed it with instant and automatic rights. By default, each new work was born under private ownership rather than in the public commons. At first, this reversal seemed to serve the culture of creation well. All works that could be copied gained instant and deep ownership, and artists and authors were happy. But the 1976 law, and various revisions and extensions that followed it, made it extremely difficult to move a work into the public commons, where human creations naturally belong and were originally intended to reside. As more intellectual property became owned by corporations rather than by individuals, those corporations successfully lobbied Congress to keep extending the once-brief protection enabled by copyright in order to prevent works from returning to the public domain. With constant nudging, Congress moved the expiration date from 14 years to 28 to 42 and then to 56.

While corporations and legislators were moving the goal posts back, technology was accelerating forward. In Internet time, even 14 years is a long time for a monopoly; a monopoly that lasts a human lifetime is essentially an eternity. So when Congress voted in 1998 to extend copyright an additional 70 years beyond the life span of a creator — to a point where it could not possibly serve its original purpose as an incentive to keep that creator working — it was obvious to all that copyright now existed primarily to protect a threatened business model. And because Congress at the same time tacked a 20-year extension onto all existing copyrights, nothing — no published creative works of any type — will fall out of protection and return to the public domain until 2019. Almost everything created today will not return to the commons until the next century. Thus the stream of shared material that anyone can improve (think "A Thousand and One Nights" or "Amazing Grace" or "Beauty and the Beast") will largely dry up.

In the world of books, the indefinite extension of copyright has had a perverse effect. It has created a vast collection of works that have been abandoned by publishers, a continent of books left permanently in the dark. In most cases, the original publisher simply doesn't find it profitable to keep these books in print. In other cases, the publishing company doesn't know whether it even owns the work, since author contracts in the past were not as explicit as they are now. The size of this abandoned library is shocking: about 75 percent of all books in the world's libraries are orphaned. Only about 15 percent of all books are in the public domain. A luckier 10 percent are still in print. The rest, the bulk of our universal library, is dark.

5. The Moral Imperative to Scan

The 15 percent of the world's 32 million cataloged books that are in the public domain are freely available for anyone to borrow, imitate, publish or copy wholesale. Almost the entire current scanning effort by American libraries is aimed at this 15 percent. The Million Book Project mines this small sliver of the pie, as does Google. Because they are in the commons, no law hinders this 15 percent from being scanned and added to the universal library.

The approximately 10 percent of all books actively in print will also be scanned before long. Amazon carries at least four million books, which includes multiple editions of the same title. Amazon is slowly scanning all of them. Recently, several big American publishers have declared themselves eager to move their entire backlist of books into the digital sphere. Many of them are working with Google in a partnership program in which Google scans their books, offers sample pages (controlled by the publisher) to readers and points readers to where they can buy the actual book. No one doubts electronic books will make money eventually. Simple commercial incentives guarantee that all in-print and backlisted books will before long be scanned into the great library. That's not the problem.

The major problem for large publishers is that they are not certain what they actually own. If you would like to amuse yourself, pick an out-of-print book from the library and try to determine who owns its copyright. It's not easy. There is no list of copyrighted works. The Library of Congress does not have a catalog. The publishers don't have an exhaustive list, not even of their own imprints (though they say they are working on it). The older, the more obscure the work, the less likely a publisher will be able to tell you (that is, if the publisher still exists) whether the copyright has reverted to the author, whether the author is alive or dead, whether the copyright has been sold to another company, whether the publisher still owns the copyright or whether it plans to resurrect or scan it. Plan on having a lot of spare time and patience if you inquire. I recently spent two years trying to track down the copyright to a book that led me to Random House. Does the company own it? Can I reproduce it? Three years later, the company is still working on its answer. The prospect of tracking down the copyright — with any certainty — of the roughly 25 million orphaned books is simply ludicrous.

Which leaves 75 percent of the known texts of humans in the dark. The legal limbo surrounding their status as copies prevents them from being digitized. No one argues that these are all masterpieces, but there is history and context enough in their pages to not let them disappear. And if they are not scanned, they in effect will disappear. But with copyright hyperextended beyond reason (the Supreme Court in 2003 declared the law dumb but not unconstitutional), none of this dark library will return to the public domain (and be cleared for scanning) until at least 2019. With no commercial incentive to entice uncertain publishers to pay for scanning these orphan works, they will vanish from view. According to Peter Brantley, director of technology for the California Digital Library, "We have a moral imperative to reach out to our library shelves, grab the material that is orphaned and set it on top of scanners."

No one was able to unravel the Gordian knot of copydom until 2004, when Google came up with a clever solution. In addition to scanning the 15 percent out-of-copyright public-domain books with their library partners and the 10 percent in-print books with their publishing partners, Google executives declared that they would also scan the 75 percent out-of-print books that no one else would touch. They would scan the entire book, without resolving its legal status, which would allow the full text to be indexed on Google's internal computers and searched by anyone. But the company would show to readers only a few selected sentence-long snippets from the book at a time. Google's lawyers argued that the snippets the company was proposing were something like a quote or an excerpt in a review and thus should qualify as a "fair use."

Google's plan was to scan the full text of every book in five major libraries: the more than 10 million titles held by Stanford, Harvard, Oxford, the University of Michigan and the New York Public Library. Every book would be indexed, but each would show up in search results in different ways. For out-of-copyright books, Google would show the whole book, page by page. For the in-print books, Google would work with publishers and let them decide what parts of their books would be shown and under what conditions. For the dark orphans, Google would show only limited snippets. And any copyright holder (author or corporation) who could establish ownership of a supposed orphan could ask Google to remove the snippets for any reason.

At first glance, it seemed genius. By scanning all books (something only Google had the cash to do), the company would advance its mission to organize all knowledge. It would let books be searchable, and it could potentially sell ads on those searches, although it does not do that currently. In the same stroke, Google would rescue the lost and forgotten 75 percent of the library. For many authors, this all-out campaign was a salvation. Google became a discovery tool, if not a marketing program. While a few best-selling authors fear piracy, every author fears obscurity. Enabling their works to be found in the same universal search box as everything else in the world was good news for authors and good news for an industry that needed some. For authors with books in the publisher program and for authors of books abandoned by a publisher, Google unleashed a chance that more people would at least read, and perhaps buy, the creation they had sweated for years to complete.

6. The Case Against Google

Some authors and many publishers found more evil than genius in Google's plan. Two points outraged them: the virtual copy of the book that sat on Google's indexing server and Google's assumption that it could scan first and ask questions later. On both counts the authors and publishers accused Google of blatant copyright infringement. When negotiations failed last fall, the Authors Guild and five big publishing companies sued Google. Their argument was simple: Why shouldn't Google share its ad revenue (if any) with the copyright owners? And why shouldn't Google have to ask permission from the legal copyright holder before scanning the work in any case? (I have divided loyalties in the case. The current publisher of my books is suing Google to protect my earnings as an author. At the same time, I earn income from Google Adsense ads placed on my blog.)

One mark of the complexity of this issue is that the publishers suing were, and still are, committed partners in the Google Book Search Partner Program. They still want Google to index and search their in-print books, even when they are scanning the books themselves, because, they say, search is a discovery tool for readers. The ability to search the scans of all books is good for profits.

The argument about sharing revenue is not about the three or four million books that publishers care about and keep in print, because Google is sharing revenues for those books with publishers. (Google says publishers receive the "majority share" of the income from the small ads placed on partner-program pages.) The argument is about the 75 percent of books that have been abandoned by publishers as uneconomical. One curious fact, of course, is that publishers only care about these orphans now because Google has shifted the economic equation; because of Book Search, these dark books may now have some sparks in them, and the publishers don't want this potential revenue stream to slip away from them. They are now busy digging deep into their records to see what part of the darkness they can declare as their own.

The second complaint against Google is more complex. Google argues that it is nearly impossible to track down copyright holders of orphan works, and so, it says, it must scan those books first and only afterward honor any legitimate requests to remove the scan. In this way, Google follows the protocol of the Internet. Google scans all Web pages; if it's on the Web, it's scanned. Web pages, by default, are born copyrighted. Google, therefore, regularly copies billions of copyrighted pages into its index for the public to search. But if you don't want Google to search your Web site, you can stick some code on your home page with a no-searching sign, and Google and every other search engine will stay out. A Web master thus can opt out of search. (Few do.) Google applies the same principle of opting-out to Book Search. It is up to you as an author to notify Google if you don't want the company to scan or search your copyrighted material. This might be a reasonable approach for Google to demand from an author or publisher if Google were the only search company around. But search technology is becoming a commodity, and if it turns out there is any money in it, it is not impossible to imagine a hundred mavericks scanning out-of-print books. Should you as a creator be obliged to find and notify each and every geek who scanned your work, if for some reason you did not want it indexed? What if you miss one?

There is a technical solution to this problem: for the search companies to compile and maintain a common list of no-scan copyright holders. A publisher or author who doesn't want a work scanned notifies the keepers of the common list once, and anyone conducting scanning would have to remove material that was listed. Since Google, like all the other big search companies — Microsoft, Amazon and Yahoo — is foremost a technical-solution company, it favors this approach. But the battle never got that far.

7. When Business Models Collide

In thinking about the arguments around search, I realized that there are many ways to conceive of this conflict. At first, I thought that this was a misunderstanding between people of the book, who favor solutions by laws, and people of the screen, who favor technology as a solution to all problems. Last November, the New York Public Library (one of the "Google Five") sponsored a debate between representatives of authors and publishers and supporters of Google. I was tickled to see that up on the stage, the defenders of the book were from the East Coast and the defenders of the screen were from the West Coast. But while it's true that there's a strand of cultural conflict here, I eventually settled on a different framework, one that I found more useful. This is a clash of business models.

Authors and publishers (including publishers of music and film) have relied for years on cheap mass-produced copies protected from counterfeits and pirates by a strong law based on the dominance of copies and on a public educated to respect the sanctity of a copy. This model has, in the last century or so, produced the greatest flowering of human achievement the world has ever seen, a magnificent golden age of creative works. Protected physical copies have enabled millions of people to earn a living directly from the sale of their art to the audience, without the weird dynamics of patronage. Not only did authors and artists benefit from this model, but the audience did, too. For the first time, billions of ordinary people were able to come in regular contact with a great work. In Mozart's day, few people ever heard one of his symphonies more than once. With the advent of cheap audio recordings, a barber in Java could listen to them all day long.

But a new regime of digital technology has now disrupted all business models based on mass-produced copies, including individual livelihoods of artists. The contours of the electronic economy are still emerging, but while they do, the wealth derived from the old business model is being spent to try to protect that old model, through legislation and enforcement. Laws based on the mass-produced copy artifact are being taken to the extreme, while desperate measures to outlaw new technologies in the marketplace "for our protection" are introduced in misguided righteousness. (This is to be expected. The fact is, entire industries and the fortunes of those working in them are threatened with demise. Newspapers and magazines, Hollywood, record labels, broadcasters and many hard-working and wonderful creative people in those fields have to change the model of how they earn money. Not all will make it.)

The new model, of course, is based on the intangible assets of digital bits, where copies are no longer cheap but free. They freely flow everywhere. As computers retrieve images from the Web or display texts from a server, they make temporary internal copies of those works. In fact, every action you take on the Net or invoke on your computer requires a copy of something to be made. This peculiar superconductivity of copies spills out of the guts of computers into the culture of computers. Many methods have been employed to try to stop the indiscriminate spread of copies, including copy-protection schemes, hardware-crippling devices, education programs, even legislation, but all have proved ineffectual. The remedies are rejected by consumers and ignored by pirates.

As copies have been dethroned, the economic model built on them is collapsing. In a regime of superabundant free copies, copies lose value. They are no longer the basis of wealth. Now relationships, links, connection and sharing are. Value has shifted away from a copy toward the many ways to recall, annotate, personalize, edit, authenticate, display, mark, transfer and engage a work. Authors and artists can make (and have made) their livings selling aspects of their works other than inexpensive copies of them. They can sell performances, access to the creator, personalization, add-on information, the scarcity of attention (via ads), sponsorship, periodic subscriptions — in short, all the many values that cannot be copied. The cheap copy becomes the "discovery tool" that markets these other intangible valuables. But selling things-that-cannot-be-copied is far from ideal for many creative people. The new model is rife with problems (or opportunities). For one thing, the laws governing creating and rewarding creators still revolve around the now-fragile model of valuable copies.

8. Search Changes Everything

The search-engine companies, including Google, operate in the new regime. Search is a wholly new concept, not foreseen in version 1.0 of our intellectual-property law. In the words of a recent ruling by the United States District Court for Nevada, search has a "transformative purpose," adding new social value to what it searches. What search uncovers is not just keywords but also the inherent value of connection. While almost every artist recognizes that the value of a creation ultimately rests in the value he or she personally gets from creating it (and for a few artists that value is sufficient), it is also true that the value of any work is increased the more it is shared. The technology of search maximizes the value of a creative work by allowing a billion new connections into it, often a billion new connections that were previously inconceivable. Things can be found by search only if they radiate potential connections. These potential relationships can be as simple as a title or as deep as hyperlinked footnotes that lead to active pages, which are also footnoted. It may be as straightforward as a song published intact or as complex as access to the individual instrument tracks — or even individual notes.

Search opens up creations. It promotes the civic nature of publishing. Having searchable works is good for culture. It is so good, in fact, that we can now state a new covenant: Copyrights must be counterbalanced by copyduties. In exchange for public protection of a work's copies (what we call copyright), a creator has an obligation to allow that work to be searched. No search, no copyright. As a song, movie, novel or poem is searched, the potential connections it radiates seep into society in a much deeper way than the simple publication of a duplicated copy ever could.

We see this effect most clearly in science. Science is on a long-term campaign to bring all knowledge in the world into one vast, interconnected, footnoted, peer-reviewed web of facts. Independent facts, even those that make sense in their own world, are of little value to science. (The pseudo- and parasciences are nothing less, in fact, than small pools of knowledge that are not connected to the large network of science.) In this way, every new observation or bit of data brought into the web of science enhances the value of all other data points. In science, there is a natural duty to make what is known searchable. No one argues that scientists should be paid when someone finds or duplicates their results. Instead, we have devised other ways to compensate them for their vital work. They are rewarded for the degree that their work is cited, shared, linked and connected in their publications, which they do not own. They are financed with extremely short-term (20-year) patent monopolies for their ideas, short enough to truly inspire them to invent more, sooner. To a large degree, they make their living by giving away copies of their intellectual property in one fashion or another.

The legal clash between the book copy and the searchable Web promises to be a long one. Jane Friedman, the C.E.O. of HarperCollins, which is supporting the suit against Google (while remaining a publishing partner), declared, "I don't expect this suit to be resolved in my lifetime." She's right. The courts may haggle forever as this complex issue works its way to the top. In the end, it won't matter; technology will resolve this discontinuity first. The Chinese scanning factories, which operate under their own, looser intellectual-property assumptions, will keep churning out digital books. And as scanning technology becomes faster, better and cheaper, fans may do what they did to music and simply digitize their own libraries.

What is the technology telling us? That copies don't count any more. Copies of isolated books, bound between inert covers, soon won't mean much. Copies of their texts, however, will gain in meaning as they multiply by the millions and are flung around the world, indexed and copied again. What counts are the ways in which these common copies of a creative work can be linked, manipulated, annotated, tagged, highlighted, bookmarked, translated, enlivened by other media and sewn together into the universal library. Soon a book outside the library will be like a Web page outside the Web, gasping for air. Indeed, the only way for books to retain their waning authority in our culture is to wire their texts into the universal library.

But the reign of livelihoods based on the copy is not over. In the next few years, lobbyists for book publishers, movie studios and record companies will exert every effort to mandate the extinction of the "indiscriminate flow of copies," even if it means outlawing better hardware. Too many creative people depend on the business model revolving around copies for it to pass quietly. For their benefit, copyright law will not change suddenly.

But it will adapt eventually. The reign of the copy is no match for the bias of technology. All new works will be born digital, and they will flow into the universal library as you might add more words to a long story. The great continent of orphan works, the 25 million older books born analog and caught between the law and users, will be scanned. Whether this vast mountain of dark books is scanned by Google, the Library of Congress, the Chinese or by readers themselves, it will be scanned well before its legal status is resolved simply because technology makes it so easy to do and so valuable when done. In the clash between the conventions of the book and the protocols of the screen, the screen will prevail. On this screen, now visible to one billion people on earth, the technology of search will transform isolated books into the universal library of all human knowledge.

Kevin Kelly is the "senior maverick" at Wired magazine and author of "Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World" and other books. He last wrote for the magazine about digital music.

Correction: May 14, 2006

An article on Page 42 of The Times Magazine today about the future of book publishing misstates the number and type of libraries in China from which a Chinese company, Superstar, has made digital copies of books. It is 200 libraries of all kinds, not 900 university libraries.

Copyright 2006 The New York Times Company