Tues. Jan. 31

Question:

1. Are you the librarian that use to walk with a cane?
2. Coretta Scott King?
3. Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary 3rd edition?
4. Books published by ABC-Clio?
5. The Lion Concise Bible Encyclopedia?
6. Nigeria Contributor:Robert A. Myers ?
7. Romania Author:Andrea Deletant?
8. Austria Author:Denys Salt?
9. Women in the World: A Comparative Study Author:Lynne B. Iglitzin, Ruth Ross?
10. 341 section?
11. What's the name of the author of the large Coretta Scott King book?

Mon. Jan. 30

Questions:

1. Eloise Greenfield?
2. 92 E section?
3. Scissors?
4. Where do I get permission to reproduce a photo attributed to the Public Library?
5. Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews : a Jewish life and the emergence of Christianity / Paula Fredriksen.
6. The diary of Samuel Pepys V.2 transcribed by Mynors Bright from the shorthand manuscript in the Pepysian Library, Magdalene College, Cambridge. Edited with additions by Henry B. Wheatley. (CPK)
7. The Cambridge history of early Inner Asia / edited by Denis Sinor. (CCH)
8. Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews : a Jewish life and the emergence of Christianity / Paula Fredriksen
9. Is there a time limit on when you can name a building after someone?
10. Where do I check out books?
11. Where do I sign up to use the computer?

New Orleans

I have made the decision to go to ALA this year. This is done not only for professional reason, but for personal. It's the right thing to do, and let's be honest, it's not exactly a hardship to spend time in New Orleans. Now when I feel that I've shopped too much I can say "But I'm helping!"
;->

Sat. Jan. 28

Questions:

1. Vietnam Protests? (959.7043, 973.923 in SOC 327, 322)
2. Smokey Robinson?
3. Shine by Star Jones? (Star Jones Reynolds)
4. Politics of frustration : the United States in German naval planning, 1889-1941 / Holger H. Herwig.
5. Great Britain and the Caribbean, 1901-1913 : a study in Anglo-American relations / Warren G. Kneer.
6. Where is the college information center?
7. Where is today's new York times?
8. Where is yesterday's new York times?
9. Where is the staff washroom key?
10. My keyboard is not responding?
11. How long do I have to wait for a computer?
12. Where's the librarian?
13. Esquire, because I'm quoted in it?
14. Lyndon B. Johnson?
15. Where is the staff washroom key?
16. Nameless Day by Douglass?
17. Where is the government division?
18. Jackie Robinson?
19. The bookseller of Kabul / Asne Seierstad
20. Israel customs and culture?
21. How many books may I check out?
22. Where do I check out books?
23. Biographies of famous Marylanders?
24. Where is the restroom?
25. Caldia? (later to be discovered as: Chaldea)
26. How do I locate someone?
27. Fiction?
28. Cookbooks?
29. Where do you open the documents on the disk drive?
30. Dictionary?
31. Fax Machine?
32. Hans Bethe, prophet of energy / Jeremy Bernstein
33. Dreams from my father : a story of race and inheritance / Barack Obama.
34. Stapler?
35. 1920's history?

Thurs. Jan. 26

Questions:

1. History of Sparta?
2. History of New York city?
3. Does that look like drug paraphernalia under the table?
4. Can you direct me to ice cold Pepsi? (What?... Do you want fries with that???)
5. Could you write to Bill Gates and request new computers?
6. People magazine?

Wed. Jan. 25

Questions:

1. American journalists : getting the story / Donald A. Ritchie
2. Shenandoah National Park?
3. Could you show me how to sign up on the computer?
4. Are all computers connected to the Internet?
5. Oman Travel guide?
6. Where do print out go from the Catalog computer?
7. How do you get to Northeast Library?
8. Where is the video section?
9. What is the capital of Virginia?
10. What is the capital of Maryland?
11. Where else was the Capital?
12. Do you have a copy key?
13. Tape?
14. Population of London 1900? http://www.demographia.com/dm-lon31.htm

Tues. Jan. 24

Questions:

1. Life of Frederick Douglass?
2. Do you own the 1853 6th edition of th Works of Daniel Webster?
3. Do you own the 1860 Life of Andrew Jackson by Parton?
4. Where is the Philosophy section?
5. Where is the water fountain?

Mon. Jan. 23

Questions:

1. Do you work here? (Let me check... Yep! I've had my coffee, I'm working)
2. Coin Price guide?
3. Quebec Travel guide?
4. New York Travel guides?
5. Do I check out the books here?
6. What time is it?

Fri. Jan. 20

Questions:

1. Map of North America?
2. Map of USA?
3. Henry Ford?
4. The private Franklin : the man and his family / by Claude-Anne Lopez and Eugenia W. Herbert
5. Open wide the freedom gates : a memoir / Dorothy Height
6. Where is the 92 r section?
7. Can I take this bibliography with me? (you may keep it) Really? (yes, really)
8. Life in prison / by Stanley "Tookie" Williams
9. A people's history of the United States : 1492-present / Howard Zinn.
10. Cuba history?
11. Naples, Italy Travel Guide?
12. Night by Wiesel, Elie
13. The other side of me?
14. Where is the book I placed on hold, the Author's name is Yee, first name possibility James. (For God and country : faith and patriotism under fire / by James Yee )
15. Fight on! : Mary Church Terrell's battle for integration / Dennis Brindell Fradin & Judith Bloom Fradin.
16. The Washington century : three families and the shaping of the Nation's Capital / Burt Solomon.

Thurs. Jan. 19

Questions:

1. Children's room?
2. Hip-hop music?
3. The assassins' gate : America in Iraq / Packer, George
4. Do you can the magazine "The Economist"?
5. Forty acres and a mule : the Freedmen's Bureau and Black land ownership / Claude F. Oubre.
6. Tommie Smith?
7. John Carlos?
8. Freedman Bureau

Wed. Jan. 18

Questions:

1. Why did the publisher not capitalize the title or author?
2. Cecil John Rhodes biography (92 R475MI )?
3. Joan Wallach Scott birth location?
4. 92 section?
5. 379 section?
6. Do I check books here?
7. 92 s section?
8. Do you have a listing of all of your CD's?
9. People Magazine?

Tues. Jan. 17

Questions:

1. Phone number for the Renaissance hotel on 9th street?
2. A million little pieces by Frey (hold placed)
3. Eleanor Roosevelt?
4. Do you work here? (I plead the fifth)
5. Restroom?
6. Where is Borneo?
7. Where do you register for the computer?
8. History of New Zealand
9. Where is the search computer?
10. Sil Austin?
11. Restroom?
12. Six wives of Henry VIII BBC production book

January Reads

Deception Point by Dan Brown
One of his older tites, but still quite good.

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Rereading this for the Book Club view: http://histbiogbookclub.blogspot.com/ for more details.

City of Falling Angels by John Berendt
Good, but not as good as his first book.

Fri. Jan. 13

Questions:

1. Where is the 92 K section?
2. Pen?
3. Washroom?
4. What was the 4th Sunday in September in 1985?
5. What day of the week was September 4th in 1985?
6. Migrations of the heart / Golden, Marita
7. Les Paul book "in my own words"?

Thurs. Jan. 12 - 100th Post!

Questions [3]:

1. Marines history
2. Vengeance : the true story of an Israeli counter-terrorist team / George Jonas
3. Charles de Gaulle?

Wed. Jan. 11

Questions:

1. Where is the index to political speeches?
2. What is the Hist TS2 password?

Tue. Jan. 10

Questions:

1. Do I check out books here?
2. Magnifying glass?
3. US Atlas (only US, no Canada or Mexico)
4. Hot commodities : how anyone can invest profitably in the world's best market / Jim
   Rogers.
5. Articles on Biology?
6. Check out here?
7. Boston Travel guide?
8. Hawaii Travel guide?
9. Josephine Baker?
10. MLK?
11. Benjamin Banneker ?
12. missinato

Mon. Jan. 9

Questions:

1. How do I make copies?
2. Science?
3. Genealogy?
4. Everett G McDonough
5. Ralph L Evans
6. Charles Nessler
7. Marcel Grateau
8. Madame CJ Walker?
9. Henry VIII?
10. Books on CD listing?
11. DC area map?

Sat. Jan. 7

Questions:

1. Bathrooms?
2. Black Boy by Richard Wright
3. Eyes on the Prize video
4. VIETNAM:LOTUS*SEA OF FIRE / NHAT-HANH
5. Magnifying glass?
6. Where are these Call Numbers?
7. Where is the Washington Magazine?
8. Richard Pryor
9. Eddie Gragio(?)
10. Shirley Chisholm?
11. Henry Johnson?
12. Robert Elliot?
13. Josiah T Settle?
14. James O'Hara?
15. John R. Lynch?
16. Les Paul : an American original / Mary Alice Shaughnessy
17. What was the price of Bread in 1995?

Thurs. Jan. 5

Questions:

1. Song by Carol Burnett "I Made a Fool of Myself Over John Foster Dulles".
2. Biography Lord Byron?
3. Gordon Parks?
4. Up from slavery
5. Wordsworth?
6. Langston Hughes?
7. Hair styles?
8. Unboxing of Henry Brown
9. Marley and Me?
10. Where have all the flowers gone?
11. Ancient Egypt?
12. Hair Styles from Ancient Egypt, Medieval, Modern?
13. McCarthy and Murrow
14. Washroom?

Wed. Jan. 4

Questions:

1. Karl Marx?
2. Europe Travel Guide?
3. France Travel Guide?
4. Great Britian Travel Guide?
5. Italy Travel Guide?
6. People Magazine?
7. 1949, the first Israelis / Tom Segev

Jan. 3 2006

Questions:

1. Can you show me how to sign up for the computer?
2. Where am I on the list for the computer?
3. Where is the Legal section?
4. Is there a scale model of this library?
5. Do I check out CD's here?
6. Where is Sociology?
7. Where is 331?
8. Middle passage?
9. Children's room?
10. History of Africa?
11. Where is this book I checked out, here or Children's?
12. Do you have any brochures on the Library?
13. Rubber Band?
14. New York City Travel Guide?
15. How do I reserve the Computer?
16. Rubber band?
17. 361 section?
18. Poetry books?
19. Child called it?
20. Spice Islands History?
21. What book are they doing for the Southeast Library Book Club?

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