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?