Friday, March 31, 2006

Fri. Mar. 31

Questions:

  1. Terry L. Haines?
  2. Sandra Day O'Connor (92 O217)?
  3. Delcine and fall of the roman empire by edward gibbon?
  4. Check out here?

Thursday, March 30, 2006

Thurs. Mar. 30

Questions:

  1. Lonely Planet Greek Island's travel guide
  2. Restroom key?
  3. Map of the World?
  4. Smaller World map?

Actions:

  • Called OCTO Computers down (Tickets: 128039 ART-01; 128042 ART-02; 128041 ART-03)
  • Adult Librarian Service Meeting

Wednesday, March 29, 2006

March Reads

Leap of Faith by Queen Noor
Read for book club. Little Bias in the beginning, but a good story.

History of Jordan by Philip Robins
Read as companion to Noor Book. Very slow going, not sure I'm going to make it.

Blackwood Farm by Anne Rice
Still with the New Orleans theme, but had to set aside for Jordan and Noor

Blogosphere : Best of Blogs
Current listing of Blogs by subject, interesting way to get into Blogs and Blogging.

Wed. Mar. 29

Questions:
  1. Germany Travel Guides?
  2. Government Division?
  3. The committee; the extraordinary career of the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Foreword by Richard H. Rovere.
  4. MARTIN DIES / GELLERMANN
  5. DC road map?
  6. Government Division?
  7. Archie Moore-- the Ole Mongoose : the authorized biography of Archie Moore, undefeated light heavyweight champion of the world / by Marilyn G. Douroux.
  8. Who's Who in America?
  9. Who's who international?
  10. Who was who in America?

Tuesday, March 28, 2006

Tues. Mar. 28

Questions:

  1. Anne Arundel County Map?
  2. Cities in Anne Arundel? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Arundel_County,_Maryland)
  3. Zip codes of Anne Arundel? (http://www.brainyzip.com/state/zip_maryland.html, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ZIP_Codes_in_Maryland,
  4. Magnifying glass?

Actions:

  • Investment workshop
  • Rome: Appian Way Lecture

Monday, March 27, 2006

Mon. Mar. 27

Questions:

  1. Wall Street Journal?
  2. Sign up to use the computer?
  3. Do the blue dots mean Reference?
  4. Can you write me a note to let them know I can check out this book because I am
  5. Anne Eliza Young?
  6. Kate Kennedy?
  7. What is George W. Bush's religion? (Methodist http://capwiz.com/ascp/bio/?id=20004&lvl=F&chamber=P)
  8. Who was the formar president of BET?
  9. What is his address?
  10. Has he been baptized?
  11. Is there any way to find out who has been baptized, or not?
  12. How do you play the lottery to win?
  13. How many number combinations are there to win the lottery?
  14. Savannah travel guide?
  15. Do you have a copy of the Book Club Book?

Friday, March 24, 2006

Fri. Mar. 24

Questions:
  1. Carnegie / Peter Krass.?
  2. Claude Monet?
  3. Restroom?
  4. How many books can I check out?
  5. How do I get a library card?
  6. How do you get a copy card?
  7. Magnifying glass?

Thursday, March 23, 2006

Thurs. Mar. 23

Questions:
  1. What is the address, phone number and website of Harper's Bazaar?
  2. Travel guide to Australia?
  3. Travel guide to New Zealand?
  4. Travel guide to Sydney?
  5. Known World by Edward Jones (Fiction referred to PET)
  6. History of the Dictionary?
  7. Ray Charles?

Actions:

  • Workshop led at WEE "Advanced Internet Searching"

Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Wed. Mar. 22

Questions:
  1. Supreme Court justices?
  2. Can Fox News use you Globe?
  3. Children's room?
  4. What does the number 8 mean in this index?
  5. Susan Orlean books?
  6. Magnifying glass?

Tuesday, March 21, 2006

Tues. Mar. 21

Questions:

  1. Is Jeremiah Healy still alive?
  2. Is Stephen Greenleaf still alive?
  3. Is Jonathan Valin still alive?
  4. Map of DC?
  5. Map of Tampa?
  6. Map of Amserdam?
  7. How do you work the copy machine?
  8. Book on Emily Rose? (Anneliese Michel, The Exorcism of Emily Rose movie based on her life)
  9. Civil war Ghost Stories?
  10. War ghost stories?
  11. Is your copier working?
  12. What countries were in WWI and WWII?
  13. Uganda's Population, Capital city, Industry, Language?
  14. Is Uganda landlocked?
  15. What is the name of the mountains in Uganda (Ruwenzori Range)

You know sometimes it just takes one thing, one word, one sentence and the coin drops, and ... You get it! an "Ah-ha" moment! "We collect people's stories", simple and to the point, and something I could sink my teeth into. "Ah-ha" moments make life worth living!

Monday, March 20, 2006

Mon. Mar. 20

Questions:
  1. General Maxwell Taylor : the sword and the pen / John M. Taylor
  2. Left to tell : discovering God amidst the Rwandan holocaust / ImmaculŽe Ilibagiza
  3. Christopher Columbus
  4. Red over Black : Black slavery among the Cherokee Indians / R. Halliburton, Jr.

Saturday, March 18, 2006

Sat. Mar. 18

Questions:


  1. Magnifying Glass?
  2. Children's room?
  3. Yemen History?
  4. Middle East History?
  5. Copy machine?
  6. Copy machine?
  7. Landmark cases?
  8. Magnifying Glass?
  9. 940.1 section?
  10. My computer's frozen, help!
  11. LIVES OF THE LORD CHANCELLORS, 1885-1940 / Heuston,
  12. Iraq history?
  13. Copy machine?
  14. African-American WACS in WWII? (355.0089, 940.5403)
  15. Pictures of Wilma Rudolph?
  16. Kenya History?
  17. Tape?
  18. Check out?
  19. Mariah Carey?
  20. The Spiritual churches of New Orleans : origins, beliefs, and rituals (PHIL)
  21. Fiction?
  22. The secret architecture of our nation's capital : the Masons and the building of Washington, D.C. / David Ovason
  23. Zimbabwe / Michael Baughan.
  24. How are the Biographied arranged?
  25. Do you have a card catalog, or computer catalog?
  26. Where is the computer catalog?
  27. Three apples fell from heaven
  28. An American physician in Turkey : a narrative of adventures in peace and war / by Clarence D. Ussher
  29. Aaliyah?
  30. Joe Louis?
  31. Nat King Cole?
  32. Jackie Robinson?

Actions:

  • Build and send cart on Australia History
  • Obits

Thursday, March 16, 2006

Thurs. Mar. 16

Questions:
  1. Scissors?
  2. Tape?
  3. What is the term used in Canada for people of mixed race, Aboriginal and White. (The term "Métis" is used broadly to describe people with mixed First Nation and European ancestry who identify themselves as Métis, distinct from Indian, Inuit or non-Aboriginal people.) http://www.collectionscanada.ca/genealogy/022-905.004-e.html, http://www.metisnation.ca/who/definition.html
  4. Magnifying Glass

Actions:

  • DCPL Speaks... talk on Future of Technology in the Library

Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Wed. Mar. 15

Questions:
  1. Is the sign up computer working?
  2. Is the sign up computer working?
  3. Is the sign up computer working?
  4. Is the sign up computer working?
  5. Is the sign up computer working?
  6. The copier ate my two dollars, can you get it back?
  7. Where do I get a print card?
  8. Map of Bushwood MD? (St. Mary's County)
  9. Civil War? (973.7)
  10. White pages?
  11. Who owns the big blue board in the lobby? (BMC*)
  12. 342 section?

*BMC is what I will place in where I have no idea what the answer is. BMC stands for Beats Me Claude. This is what B the amazing finder of lost books says when something is a mystery. I've taken it and shortened it, maybe from now on it will be b the afolb? Nah...

Saw cutest thing http://www.operagifts.com, they sell t-shirt "Got Opera?" How wild! Goes with my new Opera season tickets!

Tuesday, March 14, 2006

Tues. Mar. 14

Questions:
  1. Harriet Tubman: The Moses of Her People
  2. Check out here?
  3. Restrooms?
  4. Life is not a fairy tale / Fantasia
  5. Frank Hatchett?
  6. Eleo Pomare?
  7. Rod Rodgers?
  8. Otis Salid?
  9. Stephen King Literary criticism?
  10. Can you search the library's catalog
  11. LOC hours and website?

Monday, March 13, 2006

Mon. Mar. 13

Questions:
  1. Women in Medieval Europe (914.031, 940.1 942, and other countries)
  2. Greenwood SC?
  3. Library bags?
  4. What days of the week were June 15, 29 and July 2 in 1951?
  5. Satchel Paige? (real name Leroy)
  6. Black inventors : from Africa to America : two million years of invention and innovation / C. R. Gibbs.
  7. Isaac Newton?
  8. Galileo Galilei?
  9. Up from slavery, an autobiography / Washington, Booker T.,

Actions:

  • Book stand man asked to be quiet (3:10 PM)
  • Obits
  • Flyers taken to 2 starbucks, magnificent market, 5 brothers,

Saturday, March 11, 2006

Sat. Mar. 11

Question:
  1. The House of Medici : its rise and fall / Hibbert, Christopher (Hold from PAL)
  2. Astronauts?
  3. Washington Carver? (only Chelsea house)
  4. Copy machine stuck.
  5. Russell Simmons
  6. History Section?
  7. Scratch paper?
  8. Computer Sign up?
  9. Dr. Dean Ornish's program for reversing heart disease : the only system scientifically proven to reverse heart disease without drugs or surgery / Dean Ornish
  10. Virginia State College info?
  11. Today's Paper?
  12. Computer Sign up?
  13. Prices, events, facts of 1906? (ask Sunshine)
  14. Intelligence design?
  15. Al Gore's daughter's book? Lighting the way : nine women who changed modern America / Karenna Gore Schiff. (Hold placed MLK)
  16. Smashed : story of a drunken girlhood / Koren Zailckas. (no hold placed)
  17. A-train : memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman / Charles W. Dryden ; with a foreword by Benjamin O. Davis, Jr.

Thursday, March 09, 2006

Thurs. Mar. 9

Questions:
  1. North Carolina Travel Guide?
  2. Where are the job applications?
  3. What does the name of the Country "Niger" mean? (Latin for 'black' http://www.clickafrique.com/0500rpt/politics2105.asp, http://www.sunsite.ubc.ca/LatinDictionary/)
  4. Is there a "Niger, France" or "Niger, Britain"?
  5. When did Britain and India war? (First Indian War of Independence was in 1857, The Vellore Mutiny 1806 http://www.onwar.com)
  6. American Revolution?
  7. Marley and me (NOT found)
  8. 92 j26zn (not.... It's 820.81 j26zn, and they hung up before I could tell them!)
  9. C.L.R. James : a political biography / Kent Worcester (Hold? no barcode or name given)

Actions:

  • Tour Washingtoniana
  • Obits

Wednesday, March 08, 2006

Wed. Mar. 8

Questions:

  1. Is the sign up working?
  2. Pen?
  3. Paper?
  4. Where is the 305 section?
  5. Ross and Tom; two American tragedies / Leggett, John (Hold Pick up)
  6. Banvard's folly : thirteen tales of renowned obscurity, famous anonymity, and rotten luck / Paul Collins (Hold Pick up)
  7. Bolivia travel and history
  8. Where is the 301 section?
  9. Leap of Faith by Queen Noor

Actions:

  • Board meeting
  • Display on Gordon Parks
  • Security called about abandoned knapsack outside of glass doors
  • Security called to remove patron removing stands
  • Flyers to Chapters, 2 Starbucks, Cosi, Potbelly

Tuesday, March 07, 2006

Tues. Mar. 7

Questions:
  1. Slavery and the making of America / James Oliver Horton, Lois E. Horton
  2. Jeffrey Dahmer articles?
  3. TS3 help?
  4. Can you read the dates on these coins?
  5. Encyclopedias?
  6. What does call number 4150 mean>
  7. Mother Jones?

Actions:

  • Workshop "Educating your Adult Population"
  • Lecture "Tao Te Ching"

Monday, March 06, 2006

Mon. Mar. 6

Questions:
  1. Marching on Washington : the forging of an American political tradition / Lucy G.
    Barber.
  2. Forever free : the story of emancipation and Reconstruction / Eric Foner (Not Rec)
  3. Confederate Emancipation
  4. African American women and the vote
  5. Where is 780?
  6. Do you get the New York Times Daily? (yes)
  7. Where is the restroom?
  8. Books on First Ladies?
  9. Eleanor Roosevelt?
  10. College Algebra websites? (E-mail question from TS)
  11. Word help?

Friday, March 03, 2006

Fri. Mar. 3

Questions:

  1. Robert Kennedy and his times / Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. (hold pick up)
  2. The Cold War : a new history / John Lewis Gaddis (hold NOE to CPK)
  3. Say what you mean and mean what you say! : 7 simple strategies to help our children along the path to purpose and possibility / Glenda Hatchett (only @ WTD & BEN???)
  4. Massachusetts pictures
  5. New York pictures
  6. Sign Language room?
  7. The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin; a restoration of a "fair copy" by Max Farrand (hold PAL)
  8. Children's room?
  9. CD's?
  10. 60's and 70's CD's?
  11. The messenger : the rise and fall of Elijah Muhammad / Karl Evanzz

Thursday, March 02, 2006

Thurs. Mar. 2

Questions:

  1. Population, temperature of Greece?
  2. Fishbait : the memoirs of the congressional doorkeeper / by William "Fishbait" Miller

Actions:

  • Obits
  • Diversity training

Wednesday, March 01, 2006

Wed. Mar. 1

Questions:

  1. Anais Nin?
  2. Dalton Trumbo?
  3. The Lady and the Panda (Hold pick up)
  4. Salt of the Earth(Hold pick up)
  5. There is a writer who does detective novels set in Saratoga Springs, and he's also a Poet, What's his name? (Stephen Dobyns)
  6. Tape?
  7. Scissors?
  8. Pencil sharpener?
  9. Where do I place the books I don't want to check out?
  10. What is a good biography on Lincoln (use St. James or Biography Book Aisle 3 first section)