Thursday, June 22, 2006

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)

Wednesday, June 21, 2006

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?

Tuesday, June 20, 2006

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

Monday, June 19, 2006

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

Saturday, June 17, 2006

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?

Thursday, June 15, 2006

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

Wednesday, June 14, 2006

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?

Tuesday, June 13, 2006

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.

Monday, June 12, 2006

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

Friday, June 09, 2006

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)

Thursday, June 08, 2006

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?

Wednesday, June 07, 2006

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:

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!

Tuesday, June 06, 2006

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?

Monday, June 05, 2006

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?

Friday, June 02, 2006

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

Thursday, June 01, 2006

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