Mon. Apr. 30

Questions:

1. Bob Marley?
2. Baby Showers?
3. Help with copier?
4. Makeba : my story / Makeba, Miriam?
5. Do you know anyone who work at GEO that I could talk to about the response to the fire?
6. New York Yakees?
7. Count Folke Bernadotte : his life and work / Hewins, Ralph? (Hold -CCH)
8. Murder's Row?
9. Janice Dickinson?
10. Tyra Banks?

Sun. Apr. 29

Questions:

1. Outlet for laptop?
2. Pen or Pencil?
3. A savage kingdom: The true story of Jamestown, 1607, and the settlement of America. Woolley Benjamin?
4. Sign me up for a computer?
5. Could you put me in the queue?
6. Where is this section?
7. Blank paper?
8. Statue of Liberty?
9. Meeting room?
10. Dictionary of saints?
11. Dictionary of popes?
12. Who's who book?
13. Does your machine take dollar bills?
14. Log me in to the computer?

Sat. Apr. 28

Questions:

1. Restroom?
2. People Magazine?
3. Pencil sharpener?
4. Pencil?
5. Croatia Travel Guide?
6. Where do I change my e-mail?
7. Unfinished journey / Yehudi Menuhin. (Hold SOW)
8. The bride of science : romance, reason, and Byron's daughter / Benjamin Woolley?
9. Stairs?
10. Check out here?
11. Kenya?
12. Where are the periodicals now?
13. What is the number I call to renew books?

Actions / Thoughts:

• Weeding 913 - 2 shelves

Thurs. Apr. 26

Questions:

1. New Jersey Travel Guides?
2. Bill Bryson Books?
3. Paulo Coelho Books?
4. Color of Water (3 copies)? (Hold Pick-up)
5. Biographies or autobiographies Rimsky-Korsakov?
6. Golden Stone? (missing, not in TS3)
7. Who's Who in American Women?
8. Infidel?
9. Renaissance?
10. What is the "Pugwash conference on World Peace"?
11. Essence 1977?
12. Sepia 1976?
13. Books on DC that you can check out?
14. Restroom?
15. Meeting rooms to use?
16. Can you check the books out over there?
17. FRANZ BIEBL?
18. History of the Twin Towers?

Actions / Thoughts:

• Staff Meeting
• LOC Blog

Wed. Apr. 25

Questions:

1. St. Augustine?
2. How many CD's can you borrow?
3. British rule in the Middle East?

Tue. Apr. 24

Questions:

1. Charles Drew?
2. Chained together : Mandela, De Klerk, and the struggle to remake South Africa / David
   Ottaway. (Hold pick-up)
3. South Africa : the rise and fall of apartheid / Nancy L. Clark and William H. Worger. (Hold pick-up)
4. Mamphela Ramphele : challenging apartheid in South Africa / Judith Harlan. (Hold pick-up)
5. Encyclopedia of Japan?
6. Would you consider a journal article accessed from the Internet still a paper source?
7. Maya Angelou?
8. Boy : tales of childhood / Dahl, Roald. (Missing)
9. Books by Phyllis Tickle?
10. Books by Katharine Butler Hathaway?

Mon. Apr. 23

Questions:

1. Maps of Turkey?
2. Maps of Morocco?
3. ALPHONSE MUCHA / MUCHA ? (Hold pick-up)
4. Travel Guide on Great Britain? (Hold pick-up)
5. Travel Guide on Scotland? (Hold pick-up)
6. Travel Guide on England? (Hold pick-up)
7. Travel guide Spain?
8. Stapler?
9. People magazine?
10. Angela's Ashes?
11. Cold War?
12. World War 2?
13. War of 1812?
14. Autobiography?

Actions / Thoughts:

• Database for Periodicals: entering 2007 data

What I'm reading:

• Cabinet of Curiosities by Preston & Child
• Just finished: Pretty Bad by Shirley Jump

Fri. Apr. 13

Questions:

1. Alger Hiss? (Hold - Nat. Geo. pick-up)
2. Sign up computer?
3. 726?
4. 92 e section?
5. Their eyes were watching God?
6. Clive Barker : the dark fantastic / Winter, Douglas?
7. Bibliographies?
8. El Salvador?
9. Mexico?
10. Western Union Address?
11. The only living witness / Michaud, Stephen?
12. Trade and conflict in Angola : the Mbundu and their neighbours under the influence of the
    Portuguese, 1483-1790 / by David Birmingham? (Hold CPK)

Thurs. Apr. 12

Questions:

1. Copier?
2. 973 section?
3. What does "pogrom" mean?

Wed. Apr. 11

Questions:

1. Tape
2. The radical and the Republican : Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the triumph of antislavery politics / James Oakes? (Hold SOW)
3. The President's counselor : the rise to power of Alberto Gonzales / Bill Minutaglio? (Hold SOE-SOE)
4. Naval History of the Civil War? (Missing)
5. Infidel by Hirsi Ali, Ayaan? (NOS)

Tue. Apr. 10

Questions:

1. Ear Phones?
2. AV?
3. 916 section?
4. 92 section?
5. Paper?

Mon. Apr. 9

Questions:

1. Bible section?
2. Magnifying glass?
3. Tape?
4. Galileo?
5. J P Morgan?
6. Esto the explorer, in Florida, Spanish revolution, with Columbus?
7. Wagadugu people? (Wagadu)
8. Ancient Mali?
9. 92 P section?
10. Soninke kingdom? (Same as the Wagadu)
11. Tape?

Sat. Apr. 7

Questions:

1. The Black man in slavery and freedom in colonial Brazil / A. J.R. Russell-Wood.? (Missing?)
2. Navajo Indians?
3. Alfred Cralle? (ice cream scoop inventor)
4. T. Elkins? (refrigeration system inventor)
5. George Toliver? (Propeller inventor)
6. Address for Dan Beck?
7. 92 R section?
8. Mornings on horseback / McCullough, David G.?
9. GEORGIA HIST IN OUTLINE? (Missing)
10. Georgia, a short history? (Hold Pick-up)
11. AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A COLONY? (Hold Pick up)
12. A History of Georgia? (Missing)
13. What language is this brochure in? (Amharic)
14. Gerald Ford?
15. Churchill's Folly? (In TS3)
16. Map of the 50 states?

Wed. Apr. 4

Questions:

1. Looming Tower? (Hold pick-up)
2. Please send book club book to TPK? (e-mail question)
3. Washington books?

Thoughts/ Actions:

• Discovered desensitizing machine in processing

What I'm reading:

Tue. Apr. 3

Questions:

1. SOC/GOV?
2. AV?

Mon. Apr. 2

Questions:

1. Foreign language books?
2. 979.9461? (is there even such a call #?)
3. Coretta Scott King?
4. Are those books reference?
5. I live in Chicago, but work here, can I get a library card?
6. Has Leontyne Price written a recent autobiography?
7. Any information on Leontyne Price?
8. OED?
9. The Romanov family album / Vyrubova, Anna Aleksandrovna? (missing)
10. Herbert Hoover?

Thoughts / Actions:

De-cluttering continues! removed dead links on tutorial site.

• Paris display installed
• Renewed ALA membership.

What I'm reading:

• Unshelved comics!
• and of course the book club book.
  

Sun. Apr. 1 - 400th POST!

Questions:

1. Copier help?
2. 200 section?
3. Computer to look up books?
4. How is the History section arranged?
5. Where do my print jobs come out?
6. Children's room?
7. DVD's?
8. 929 section?
9. Hurston bio?
10. Where do I check out?
11. How do I get a library card?
12. Citizen Cohn / Von Hoffman, Nicholas? (Hold SOE)
13. Florida Map?
14. Virgina Map?
15. In spite of the gods : the strange rise of modern India? (Many holds! Borders!)
16. Show business : a novel / Tharoor, Shashi?
17. The great Indian novel / Tharoor, Shashi?
18. Istanbul by Pamuk? (Hold for CPK??????)

Thoughts / Actions:

Well, today is the 400th post. Actually, it's not. I just merged 3 blogs (kind of a virtual de-cluttering!) I thought I'd give a more rounded vision of what I blog. The occasional article, link, tip, what I'm reading, etc. ...

What I'm reading:

Fatal Purity by Ruth Scurr - It' quite good, it's for the book club. I would love to give it a little more attention.