Thursday, August 31, 2006

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?

Wednesday, August 30, 2006

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.

Tuesday, August 29, 2006

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?

Monday, August 28, 2006

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

Saturday, August 26, 2006

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.

Thursday, August 24, 2006

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.

Wednesday, August 23, 2006

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

Tuesday, August 22, 2006

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?

Monday, August 21, 2006

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)

Friday, August 18, 2006

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

Thursday, August 17, 2006

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?

Wednesday, August 16, 2006

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

Tuesday, August 15, 2006

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

Monday, August 14, 2006

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?

Friday, August 11, 2006

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)

Thursday, August 10, 2006

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

Wednesday, August 09, 2006

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

Tuesday, August 08, 2006

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?

Monday, August 07, 2006

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

Saturday, August 05, 2006

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?

Thursday, August 03, 2006

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?

Wednesday, August 02, 2006

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.

Tuesday, August 01, 2006

Tues. Aug. 1

Closed at 4:30 PM due to no AC.