Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Wed. Jan. 31

Questions:

  1. Founder of A Dance Theatre in Harlen?
  2. Aldous Huxley dates?
  3. Hubert Benoit dates?
  4. Who else died on November 22 1963?
  5. Manhunt / Peter Maas / Maas, Peter?
  6. I've cut myself and bled on this map, can you clean it off?
  7. What do I put for my e-mail name?
  8. What is the password for my e-mail?
  9. How do I look for biographies on celebrities?
  10. Confessions of a video vixen / Steffans, Karrine. ?
  11. Literary criticism?
  12. Poetry?
  13. Elizabeth and Robert Browning?
  14. Willie Lynch: Why African Americans Have So Many Issues by Marc Sims

Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Tues. Jan. 30

Question:

  1. What does it mean when it says CD in front of the call number?
  2. What does it mean when it says PHONO in front of the call number?
  3. Mexico Travel guide?
  4. Copier that copies larger than 11 X 17?
  5. Is the section on women back here?
  6. Women of Achievement ?
  7. Who's Who in America?
  8. Who's Who in American Women?
  9. History of Congress?
  10. The PACT?
  11. What computer am I on?
  12. Genealogy section?

Bodhisattva Smithsonian Lecture

Monday, January 29, 2007

Mon. Jan. 29

Questions:
  1. Copier Help?
  2. Copier Help?
  3. Florence Griffith Joyner?
  4. Autobiography of Crazy Horse?
  5. Handout for Black History Month?
  6. Quilts from the Underground railroad?
  7. Can you print me out an annotated bibliography of Marian Anderson?
  8. Marian Anderson?

Sunday, January 28, 2007

Sun. Jan. 28

Questions:
  1. Alan Meckler's birthday?
  2. Alan Meckler's address?
  3. Scissors?
  4. Copier ate my money
  5. Can we use this display table for a music video?
  6. People magazine?
  7. Copier ate my money
  8. Motorcycle Diaries?
  9. Che?
  10. Tape?
  11. Zhu Rongji?
  12. Chairs for a music video?
  13. What year did Ronald Reagan die?
  14. 962 section?
  15. Can I borrow this chair for a music video?
  16. Do you think this book will have my answer in it?
  17. Jimmy Swaggart?
  18. What books have been written about or by Jimmy Swaggart?
  19. What is the difference between Biography and Autobiography?
  20. Are the Databases down?
  21. Battle of Burgess?
  22. Battle of Gettysburg?
  23. I need this book for my daughter, where is the 370 secton?
  24. Directory of Historical Societies? (Ready ref aisle 4 second row)
  25. Directory of Museums? (069 hist ref)
  26. Can you do something for me, I'm (I've forgotten the name), can you tell anyone you comes around asking about me something? Tell them I'm not afraid of any Devil or want-to-be Devil.
  27. Can you tell me something about this primary source from the American Revolution?
  28. How to-- make love like a porn star : a cautionary tale / Jenna Jameson with Neil Strauss.
  29. Against the grain / Morris, Eugene. (Hold PET)

Actions:

  • Music Video shot outside
  • Copier put out of order

Saturday, January 27, 2007

Sat. Jan. 27

Questions:

  1. Martin Luther King Jr. Books?
  2. John Lewis Contact information?
  3. Who was that guy in "The Thing", and in Platoon?
  4. Tape?
  5. Narrative life of Fredrick Douglass?
  6. Author Bourdieu?
  7. Book the Algerians?
  8. People Magazine?
  9. Information on the National Council of Negro Women?
  10. Information on the band Kansas?
  11. England Walking Travel Guides?
  12. Japan Travel Guide (Frommers or Fodors)?
  13. Did you know that you need to be 21 to use the Library of Congress? (Looks like 18 or older)
  14. Johnnie Cochran?
  15. Jackie Robinson?
  16. Black Inventors?
  17. Ernest Wilkins Journey? (J. Ernest Wilkins)
  18. Hungarian Revolution?
  19. Men's room?
  20. Alexander Fleming?
  21. M C Hammer?
  22. History of North Carolina by Lawson?
  23. John Lawson
  24. Alexander Fleming Obituary?
  25. Tape?
  26. I lost 30 cents in the photocopier?
  27. Do I check out here?
  28. Jose Marti?
  29. The computer was turned off when I got there, what do I do?
  30. Catherine de Medici? (filed under C)
  31. Australia Travel Books?
  32. "My Trader's Heart" by Milan? (Could not find in the cat., later found: My Traitor's Heart: A South African Exile Returns to Face His Country, His Tribe, and His Conscience by Rian Malan)
  33. Wounds of passion : a writing life / Hooks, Bell? (Hold Pick-up)
  34. Is the New York Times back issues there?
  35. Costa Rica Travel Guides?
  36. Dominican Republic Travel Guides?
  37. Puerto Rico Travel Guides?

Blog introduced to : http://refgrunt.blogspot.com/

Thursday, January 25, 2007

Thurs. Jan. 25

Questions:

  1. Costa Rica Travel Guide Rough Guide or Lonely Planet (Hold CPK)
  2. Restroom?
  3. Maya Angelou?
  4. I know why the caged bird sings (301.4519 A584, 811.54 AN43I 1997, Also in Collective 92 A584)
  5. Pen or Pencil?
  6. The family : the real story of the Bush dynasty / Kelley, Kitty. ?
  7. Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Keckly book?
  8. Books on writing dialogue for plays?
  9. Have you seen my blue gloves?
  10. Bio of Sting?
  11. The computer screen is upside down, can you help? (Right click on desktop choose Graphics options then rotate then normal)
  12. Someone has locked the address bar on IE, can you unlock it?
  13. Where is the Microfiche and Microfiche reader that was here?
  14. Famous People with the last name Whittier?
  15. Volume ten of Dictionary of American Biography? (is missing?????)

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Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Wed. Jan. 24

Questions:
  1. Wittgenstein's Poker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers by David Edmonds and John Eidinow
  2. The American People: Creating A Nation And A Society by Gary B. Nash, Julie Roy Jeffrey, John R. Howe, and Peter J. Frederick
  3. Sign me up for a computer?
  4. Raymond Johnson?
  5. The 800 number to the American Orient Express?
  6. A book with top places to see in the US?
  7. Europe Travel Guide?
  8. France Travel Guide?
  9. England Travel Guide?
  10. Language tapes?
  11. Restroom?
  12. Native Americans?
  13. Restroom?

Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Tues. Jan. 23

Questions:

  1. Complicity : how the North promoted, prolonged, and profited from slavery / Anne Farrow, Joel Lang, and Jenifer Frank of The Hartford courant, with Cheryl Magazine, images editor ; foreword by Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
  2. 900 section?
  3. Lonely Planet Mexico Travel Guide? (Hold Pick up)
  4. Restroom?
  5. The United States and China in the twentieth century / Michael Schaller?
  6. Crossing the Divide?
  7. Making of a Special Realtionship?
  8. Reading American photographs : images as history, Mathew Brady to Walker Evans / Alan Trachtenberg.
  9. Iron cages : race and culture in nineteenth-century America / Ronald T. Takaki
  10. The slave community : plantation life in the antebellum South / John W. Blassingame.
  11. The story of American freedom / Eric Foner.
  12. The minutemen and their world / Gross, Robert A.,
  13. Mao's early life?
  14. Pope John Paul II : the biography / Szulc, Tad. (Hold CPK)
    Paper?
  15. Looming tower?

Monday, January 22, 2007

Mon. Jan. 22

Questions:


  1. Rereading Frederick Jackson Turner : the significance of the frontier in American history, and other essays / with commentary by John Mack Faragher. (Hold CPK)
  2. The frontier in American history / Turner, Frederick Jackson (Hold CPK)
  3. MANY MEXICOS / SIMPSON (Hold SOE)
  4. Between worlds : the making of an American life / Bill Richardson
  5. Dreams from my father : a story of race and inheritance / Barack Obama
  6. Copier help?

Book Club Meeting

9 in attendance (6 physical + 3 virtual)

Sunday, January 21, 2007

Sun. Jan 21

Questions:
  1. Children's books on Guatemala?
  2. The Random House encyclopedia?
  3. Computer?
  4. Library Card?
  5. Children's room?
  6. The Cambridge encyclopedia?
  7. Politics in states and communities / Dye, Thomas R. ?

Saturday, January 20, 2007

Sat. Jan. 20

Questions:
  1. The battle for Okinawa / Yahara, Hiromichi (Hold pick-up)
  2. Life after life : a story of rage and redemption / Hopkins, Evans D?
  3. Did you see a lady come in here?
  4. Financing college : how much you'll really have to pay--and how to get the money / from the editors of Kiplinger's personal finance. (Hold from TEN)
  5. Scrap paper?
  6. Nazi culture: intellectual, cultural, and social life in the Third Reich [edited] by George L. Mosse. Translations by Salvator Attanasio and others.
  7. Roald Dahl : a biography / Jeremy Treglown.
  8. Photos of 3 singers (Whitney Houston, Donnie, Tamera,)?
  9. The atlas of African-American history and politics : from the slave trade to modern times / Arwin D. Smallwood with Jeffrey M. Elliot.
  10. Primary Sources on Buffalo Soldiers?
  11. Wallace Thurman?
  12. Panama History? (Nothing there?)
  13. Can you read to me the encyclopedia entry for Bolivia?
  14. John Adams / McCullough, David G? (missing?)
  15. Henry V?
  16. England's History at the time of Henry V?
  17. Kings and Queens of England?
  18. John Howard Yoder : Mennonite patience, evangelical witness, Catholic convictions / Mark Thiessen Nation.
  19. Chronicle of the Roman emperors : the reign-by-reign record of the rulers of Imperial Rome / Chris Scarre.

Thursday, January 18, 2007

Thurs. Jan. 18

Questions:
  1. Marva Collins' way / Collins, Marva?
  2. The intellectual devotional : revive your mind, complete your education, and roam confidently with the cultured class / David S. Kidder & Noah D. Oppenheim. (Hold CPK)
  3. Who Was Who in Science?
  4. A different person : a memoir / Merrill, James Ingram? (HOLD)
  5. The chrysanthemum and the sword; patterns of Japanese culture, by Ruth Benedict. (Hold)
  6. Dogs in WW1?
  7. What movies was Calvin Lockhart in during the 1970's?

Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Wed. Jan 17

Questions:

  1. Pyramids in Mexico?
  2. Pyramids in Egypt?
  3. Traces of a Stream: Literacy and Social Change Among African-American Women by Jacqueline Jones Royster?
  4. Feltrinelli / Feltrinelli, Carlo? (Hold Wash post)
  5. Is the WiFi down?
  6. Who's Who in American Women 2006?
  7. Child Labor in Africa?
  8. Stick figure : a diary of my former self / Gottlieb, Lori. (Hold pick-up)
  9. African Americans in the Civil War

Actions:

  • Relabeled 2
  • Incident report filed

Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Tue. Jan. 16

Questions:

  1. Dreamgirl ; & Supreme faith : my life as a Supreme / by Mary Wilson.?
  2. Where is my name on the computer?
  3. The Muqaddimah; an introduction to history, translated from the Arabic by Franz Rosenthal. by Ibn Khaldun
  4. My screen is upside down, can you fix it? (Some knucklehead found a way to rotate the screen 180 degrees. Solution: Right click on desk top choose position then rotate.)
  5. The unofficial guide to California with kids. (Hold CPK)
  6. Where can I set these books?

Sunday, January 14, 2007

Sun. Jan 14

Questions:
  1. Register for a computer?
  2. Big Story? (Hold Pick-up)
  3. Lost Floppy?
  4. Register for a computer?
  5. Resume books?
  6. James Brown?
  7. Scissors?
  8. Stapler?
  9. Restroom?
  10. Washington DC History?
  11. Great Depression?
  12. Picture of Ella Fitzgerald?
  13. Picture of Bille Holiday?
  14. Civil war?
  15. Maps?
  16. Restroom?
  17. Do we live on top of the globe , or in it?
  18. History of Spanish food?
  19. Lorraine Hansberry? (only black studies?)
  20. Emily Dickinson?
  21. Shakespeare?
  22. Books by Emily Dickinson?
  23. Books by Lorraine Hansberry?
  24. 92 w section?

Saturday, January 13, 2007

Sat. Jan. 13

Questions:

  1. Richard Wright's Native Son?
  2. John Steinbeck?
  3. MLK?
  4. Emma's War?
  5. Cheyenne Indians?
  6. Lakota Indians?
  7. Richard Wright?
  8. Edgar Allen Poe?
  9. Mexico Travel Guide?
  10. Check out?
  11. Can I take the books to another room?
  12. Faith in Carlos Gomez : a memoir of salsa, sex, and salvation / Samantha Dunn.?
  13. 17th century?
  14. George Owin (George Orwell)?
  15. Robert Stevens (Robert Louis Stevenson?
  16. Stapler?
  17. Copier help?
  18. God the Devil and religion in 17th century?

Thursday, January 11, 2007

Thurs. Jan. 11

Questions:
  1. Newsweek back issues?
  2. War of 1812?
  3. Who beat the Nazi's?
  4. Did Afghanistan beat Russia?
  5. Fellowship: Frank Lloyd Wright?
  6. Black skin, white masks / Fanon, Frantz?
  7. THE QUESTION / ALLEG?
  8. Modern History of TANZANIA?
  9. Peace Corps stories?
  10. Did you see a large man come in here?
  11. IRS form 8829 from 2005?

Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Wed. Jan. 10

Questions:

  1. Gabor Garai?
  2. Nevada Travel Guide?
  3. Bus Travel Guide?
  4. Arizona Travel Guide?
  5. Rembrandt’s first name?
  6. China and Armenia history?
  7. Juv section?
  8. Classical world by Fox?
  9. Printer?
  10. How do I trace my Cherokee roots?
  11. Knoxville Tennessee Zip code?
  12. The Jacksonian era, 1828-1848 / Van Deusen, Glyndon G.? (Hold pick-up)
  13. The Americans in their moral, social and political relations/Grund, Francis J? (Hold pick-up)
  14. GUIDE TO THE JOHN MUIR TRAIL / STARR? (Hold pick-up)
  15. O Jerusalem! / Collins, Larry? (Hold CPK)
  16. The pursuit of happyness / Gardner, Chris?
  17. Copier help?
  18. Color copier?
  19. Original Marvelettes by Marc Taylor?

SWW - E. Peters and Ancient Egypt

Tuesday, January 09, 2007

Tues. Jan 9

Questions:

  1. Washington Post Jan 1991?
  2. Teresa Heinz Kerry's Birthday?
  3. Conputer Reservation computer?
  4. Hours?
  5. Burning of Washington?
  6. Maya Angelou?
  7. Map of Washington?
  8. Buffalo Soldiers?

Monday, January 08, 2007

Mon. Jan. 8

Questions:


  1. Ancient History?
  2. Prince Hall?
  3. How can you bear the smell in here?
  4. Where is the mango princess? / Crimmins, C. E. (HOLD WEE)?
  5. Afganistan Travel and History?
  6. Miller and Long construction Phone number?
  7. Robben Island : ten years as a political prisoner in South Africa's most notorious penitentiary / by Indres Naidoo as told to Albie Sachs ?

LSTA Meeting

Sunday, January 07, 2007

Sun. Jan. 7

Questions:
  1. World War 2?
  2. The worst hard time : the untold story of those who survived the great American dust bowl / Timothy Egan

Friday, January 05, 2007

Fri. Jan. 5

Questions:
  1. Internet connection?
  2. Mexico City Travel Guide?(Hold CCH)
  3. Lies My Teacher Told Me? (Hold pick up)
  4. Children of the Blitz : memories of wartime childhood / compiled by Robert Westall (NOS, Not Rec'd?)
  5. Vikings?
  6. Melvin Pervis?
  7. Eliot Ness?
  8. Blood of brothers : life and war in Nicaragua / Stephen Kinzer. (Hold placed)
  9. Copier help?
  10. Copier help?
  11. Continental drift?
  12. Mexico Travel Guide?
  13. Belize Travel Guide?
  14. Venezuela Travel Guide?
  15. 92 c section?
  16. Switzerland Travel guide?
  17. Richard M. Nixon : the complex president / Goldman, Martin S.?
  18. 973 section?
  19. Children's room?
  20. Computer list down?
  21. Cloudsplitter?
  22. U-505 : the final journey / James E. Wise, Jr.?
  23. Financing college : how much you'll really have to pay--and how to get the money / from the editors of Kiplinger's personal finance. (Hold from TEN)
  24. Are the Biograpghies

Thursday, January 04, 2007

Thurs. Jan. 4

Questions:
  1. Printing?
  2. Printing?
  3. American exceptionalism : a double-edged sword / Lipset, Seymour (Hold CCH)
  4. Low on 11X17 paper?
  5. How do you set the copier for 8X11 paper?
  6. Books on learning to sketch?
  7. Jasper Johns?
  8. San Diego Travel Guide?
  9. Egypt's making : the origins of ancient Egypt, 5000-2000 BC / Michael Rice. (Missing?)
  10. Next two book club books?

Wednesday, January 03, 2007

Wed. Jan 3 2007

Questions:
  1. The arcades project / Benjamin, Walter (Hold Pick-up)
  2. Ancient Greece?
  3. Sign up computer?
  4. The life of Emily Dickinson / Sewall, Richard Benson?
  5. Twilight people : one man's journey to find his roots / David Houze. (odd record called DM to hotline title)
  6. This month's book for the book club.
  7. From Garvey to Marley : Rastafari theology / Erskine, Noel L? (Other branches have, On-Order?)
  8. Rastafarian movement?
  9. Flapper : a madcap story of sex, style, celebrity, and the women who made America modern / Joshua Zeitz. (Other branches have, On-Order)