tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-150197992024-03-13T23:52:43.261-04:00Meanwhile at the Reference Desk ...Hello & Welcome!
These are just Reference desk notes, observations, and library stuff. In other words a day in the life of a Public Library Reference Librarian.
<a href="http://www.overduemedia.com"><img height="210" width="600" border="0" src="http://www.overduemedia.com/today?r=http://yoursite"></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger785125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15019799.post-13270066521589502462012-01-19T17:24:00.001-05:002012-01-19T17:24:50.143-05:00Some reference questionsThursday, January 19th, 2011:<br>1. [Phone call at 9:00pm Wed.:] Two Margaret Thatcher biographies?<br>Can you hold them for me? I'm running up Connecticut Avenue to your<br>library and I'm just 3 blocks away.<br>2. Do you have a flyer with all the children's programs on it?<br>3. Do you have a thing for kids today?<br>4. Something Wilson's Private War? It's a DVD?<br>5. I got a notice for a book I returned.<br>6. Fairy Tale Interrupted?<br>7. Are you open? I need to return some audiobooks and it's so<br>frustrating when you aren't open..<br>8. Monkeys by Sue Minot?<br>9. The American Supreme Court by McCloskey?<br>10. Snows of Kilimanjaro?<br>11. Books on nutrition?<br>12. Eat Well to Live?<br>13. Can I download an eBook to my computer?<br>14. My teenage son wants to improve his vocabulary. Can you recommend<br>any vocab books?<br>15. Straight Talk about Psychiatric Medication for Kids?<br>16. Five Essential People Skills on audio or eBook?<br>17. The Town by Faulkner?<br>18. Having Faith?<br>19. Prague Cemetery?<br>20. I don't see my hold… (It was at CCHMD).<br>21. Falling Back to Earth?<br>22. Packing for Mars?<br>23. Books by Marcia Davenport?<br>24. Will you be getting more tax forms?<br>25. New book about health care act?<br>26. Newspapers?<br>27. Hare with the Amber Eyes?<br>28. Mortgages for Dummies or some other simple mortgage book?<br>29. State of Wonder?<br>30. Tiger's Wife?<br>31. Out Stealing Horses?<br>32. I don't see my hold… (it wasn't there.)<br>33. I haven't heard anything about my ILL…<br>34. Thank you for putting the graphic novels in order by author, not title!<br>35. Recommendations for audiobooks?<br>36. My hold?<br>37. Every man in this village is a liar : an education in war / Stack, Megan K?<br>38. Too big to fail?<p>Email: <a href="mailto:tracy.myers@dc.gov">tracy.myers@dc.gov</a><p>Website: <a href="http://www.dclibrary.org/chevychase">http://www.dclibrary.org/chevychase</a><p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/dclibrary">http://www.facebook.com/dclibrary</a><p><a href="http://twitter.com/dcpl">http://twitter.com/dcpl</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15019799.post-23190252239281084962012-01-19T17:20:00.000-05:002012-01-19T17:21:10.986-05:00Some reference questionsThursday, January 19th, 2011:<br>1. [Phone call at 9:00pm Wed.:] Two Margaret Thatcher biographies?<br>Can you hold them for me? I'm running up Connecticut Avenue to your<br>library and I'm just 3 blocks away.<br>2. Do you have a flyer with all the children's programs on it?<br>3. Do you have a thing for kids today?<br>4. Something Wilson's Private War? It's a DVD?<br>5. I got a notice for a book I returned.<br>6. Fairy Tale Interrupted?<br>7. Are you open? I need to return some audiobooks and it's so<br>frustrating when you aren't open..<br>8. Monkeys by Sue Minot?<br>9. The American Supreme Court by McCloskey?<br>10. Snows of Kilimanjaro?<br>11. Books on nutrition?<br>12. Eat Well to Live?<br>13. Can I download an eBook to my computer?<br>14. My teenage son wants to improve his vocabulary. Can you recommend<br>any vocab books?<br>15. Straight Talk about Psychiatric Medication for Kids?<br>16. Five Essential People Skills on audio or eBook?<br>17. The Town by Faulkner?<br>18. Having Faith?<br>19. Prague Cemetery?<br>20. I don't see my hold… (It was at CCHMD).<br>21. Falling Back to Earth?<br>22. Packing for Mars?<br>23. Books by Marcia Davenport?<br>24. Will you be getting more tax forms?<br>25. New book about health care act?<br>26. Newspapers?<br>27. Hare with the Amber Eyes?<br>28. Mortgages for Dummies or some other simple mortgage book?<br>29. State of Wonder?<br>30. Tiger's Wife?<br>31. Out Stealing Horses?<br>32. I don't see my hold… (it wasn't there.)<br>33. I haven't heard anything about my ILL…<br>34. Thank you for putting the graphic novels in order by author, not title!<br>35. Recommendations for audiobooks?<br>36. My hold?<br>37. Every man in this village is a liar : an education in war / Stack, Megan K?<br>38. Too big to fail?<p>Email: <a href="mailto:tracy.myers@dc.gov">tracy.myers@dc.gov</a><p>Website: <a href="http://www.dclibrary.org/chevychase">http://www.dclibrary.org/chevychase</a><p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/dclibrary">http://www.facebook.com/dclibrary</a><p><a href="http://twitter.com/dcpl">http://twitter.com/dcpl</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15019799.post-6872613699026175412010-02-23T16:00:00.004-05:002010-02-24T17:42:41.158-05:00Hijacking this blogWell, it's been awhile but I think I need to start blogging again. This really is not breaking my New Year's resolution not to keep a journal because this is professional. So, I'm taking over the reference question blog and just sort of using this for my library blog exercise. <br /><br />I still want to keep track of reference questions, so I am keeping the informationdesk.blogspot.com too. Also for those entries that are too much for this one I have offdutylibrarian.blogspot.com (good luck viewing that one I'm locked it down ;p )<br /><br />Until then.. Meanwhile at the Reference Desk....Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15019799.post-2582788631270241222008-08-30T17:15:00.001-04:002008-08-30T17:15:41.986-04:00Sat. Aug. 30<div><strong><em>Questions:</em></strong></div> <ol> <li>Ref 973?</li> <li>Just Me?</li> <li>Lonely Planet Travel Book?</li> <li>Kindness of Strangers?</li> <li>Up the Amazon Without a Paddle? (Called WEE for Hold)</li> <li>Closing the Kingdom?</li> <li>Girl in the Fall Away Dress?</li> <li>Pigs in the Toilet?</li> <li>Vagabonding?</li> <li>Languages on CD?</li> <li>A Hope in the Unseen? (Hold pick up TPK)</li> <li>Haden-guest?</li> <li>Massachusetts history?</li> <li>Children of Henry VIII by Wier?</li> <li>Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest?</li> <li>Avenger take his place? (2 Hold for CPK)</li> <li>Newton by Ackroyd? (Hold PET)</li> <li>Washington DC Travel Guide?</li> <li>What are your Hours?</li> <li>Are you open Sunday?</li></ol> Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15019799.post-67252432986655699012008-08-28T20:55:00.002-04:002008-08-28T20:58:01.708-04:00Thurs. Aug. 28<strong><em>Questions:</em></strong><br /><ol><li>Places rated?</li><li>Dove by Graham?</li><li>National Geographic June 1961?</li><li>Meghan O'Rourke?</li><li>Body, boots & britches? (Hold CPK)</li></ol>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15019799.post-80790982236608605752008-08-27T13:20:00.001-04:002008-08-27T13:20:17.995-04:00Wed. Aug. 27<div dir="ltr"><i><b>Questions:</b></i><br><ol><li>The Big Sea?</li><li>Joe Biden book?</li><li>The White House Gang?<br></li><li>Restroom?</li><li>The Practice of Diaspora?</li><li>Federal Grants?<br></li></ol> </div> Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15019799.post-6480574502996854912008-08-26T16:13:00.001-04:002008-08-26T16:13:23.198-04:00Tue. Aug. 26<div dir="ltr"><i><b>Questions:</b></i><br> <ol> <li>Joe Biden book?</li> <li>Atlas?</li> <li>Copier Help?</li></ol></div> Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15019799.post-26165228266468145342008-08-26T09:12:00.001-04:002008-08-26T09:12:03.968-04:00Mon. Aug. 25<div><strong><em>Questions:</em></strong></div> <ol> <li>Mark Twain?</li> <li>Restroom?</li> <li>Where can I check out this book?</li> <li>Macedonian History?</li></ol> Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15019799.post-54061040336963285892008-08-22T15:07:00.001-04:002008-08-22T15:07:22.387-04:00Fri. Aug. 22<div><strong><em>Questions:</em></strong></div> <ol> <li>Singapore Travel Guide?</li> <li>Hegel?</li> <li>Hegel's Idealism?</li> <li>Printer help?</li></ol> Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15019799.post-79564475069526726162008-08-21T20:56:00.001-04:002008-08-21T20:56:07.587-04:00Thurs. Aug. 21<div><strong><em>Questions:</em></strong></div> <ol> <li>Can I check out the books on display?</li> <li>What year was "Webster's Dictionary Revised Edition" Published?</li> <li>The Pact?</li> <li>Augustus?</li> <li>Sign in Computer?</li> <li>Government?</li> <li>Which way to the garage?</li> <li>Bookseller of Kabul?</li></ol> Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15019799.post-24121627890636949592008-08-20T16:40:00.001-04:002008-08-20T16:40:45.688-04:00Wed. Aug. 20<div><strong><em>Questions:</em></strong></div> <ol> <li>Balkins History?</li> <li>Copier Help</li></ol> Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15019799.post-27631749486874891942008-08-19T12:42:00.001-04:002008-08-19T12:42:55.426-04:00Tue. Aug. 19<div><strong><em>Questions:</em></strong></div> <ol> <li>The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956 : an experiment in literary investigation / Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn?</li> <li>Holocaust Pictures?</li> <li>Scrap paper?</li> <li>Pursuit of Happyness? (Hold Pick-up)</li> <li>Journal of Urban History?</li></ol> Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15019799.post-36195143459075268662008-08-18T20:47:00.002-04:002008-08-18T20:54:00.306-04:00Mon. Aug. 18<strong><em>Questions:</em></strong><br /><ol><li>Israel-Palestine conflict?</li><li>Central America Travel Guide?</li><li>The Pact?</li><li>Buried Onions?</li><li>How Starbucks Saved My Life?</li><li>Graphic Novels?</li><li>Where is Zimbabwe?</li><li>Was Zimbabwe ever part of South Africa?</li><li>What Country is to the West and East of Zimbabwe?</li><li>Where can I buy an outline map?</li><li>Where is <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Tanzania</span>?</li><li>What are the National Parks in <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Tanzania</span>?</li><li>Which National Park has the Lions?</li></ol>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15019799.post-11591775812517753282008-08-15T16:36:00.001-04:002008-08-15T16:36:40.558-04:00Fri. Aug. 15<div><strong><em>Questions:</em></strong></div> <ol> <li>Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World?</li> <li>Washington History?</li> <li>Soul Singers?</li> <li>China to Me? (Hold WEE)</li> <li>Rick Steve's Great Britain?</li> <li>England Travel Guide?</li> <li>Microfiche machine?</li></ol> Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15019799.post-9286045820173108002008-08-14T20:56:00.001-04:002008-08-14T20:56:27.330-04:00Thurs. Aug. 14<div><strong><em>Question:</em></strong></div> <ol> <li>Toronto Travel Books?</li> <li>Outlet for Computer?</li> <li>645 section?</li> <li>A Hope in the Unseen?</li> <li>Bramin?</li> <li>Dodsley Robert?</li> <li>Map?</li> <li>Angela's Ashes?</li> <li>Pictures of Yorkshire?</li> <li>Earl of Chesterfield? (Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield?)</li></ol> Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15019799.post-41702311129050312562008-08-13T14:02:00.001-04:002008-08-13T14:02:49.058-04:00Wed. Aug. 13<div><strong><em>Questions:</em></strong></div> <ol> <li>Victorian England?</li> <li>Sports figures in 1993?</li> <li>MLK Biog.?</li> <li>Biography of the Pope as told by his cat?</li> <li>Genealogy?</li> <li>Last Names?</li> <li>All the President's Men?</li> <li>Ark of the liberties?</li></ol> Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15019799.post-80199187581169824272008-08-12T16:09:00.001-04:002008-08-12T16:09:28.848-04:00Tue. Aug. 12<div><strong><em>Questions:</em></strong></div> <ol> <li>Stapler?</li> <li>Lost Surpreme?</li> <li>Jackie Wilson?</li> <li>Yellow Pages?</li> <li>Incidents in the life of a slave girl?</li> <li>Books on the Holy-caust?</li> <li>Dictionary?</li> <li>I want to tell you?</li> <li>Mata Hari?</li></ol> Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15019799.post-79972943099627816492008-08-12T10:53:00.000-04:002008-08-12T10:54:13.134-04:00Mon. Aug. 11<div><em><strong>Questions:</strong></em></div> <ol> <li>I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings?</li> <li>The Pact?</li> <li>Th N Word?</li> <li>World Geogrpahy?</li> <li>Grammer?</li> <li>Art History?</li> <li>American History?</li> <li>Math?</li> <li>Sign Up?</li> <li>Printing from Laptop?</li></ol> Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15019799.post-67406377444174854892008-08-11T17:18:00.001-04:002008-08-11T17:18:19.696-04:00Mon. Aug. 11<div><em><strong>Questions:</strong></em></div> <ol> <li>I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings?</li> <li>The Pact?</li> <li>Th N Word?</li> <li>World Geogrpahy?</li> <li>Grammer?</li> <li>Art History?</li> <li>American History?</li> <li>Math?</li> <li>Sign Up?</li> <li>Printing from Laptop?</li></ol> Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15019799.post-25633916743255842062008-08-11T16:58:00.001-04:002008-08-11T16:58:46.179-04:00Mon. Aug. 11<div><em><strong>Questions:</strong></em></div> <ol> <li>I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings?</li> <li>The Pact?</li> <li>Th N Word?</li> <li>World Geogrpahy?</li> <li>Grammer?</li> <li>Art History?</li> <li>American History?</li> <li>Math?</li> <li>Sign Up?</li> <li>Printing from Laptop?</li></ol> Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15019799.post-22766579855661083042008-08-11T13:26:00.001-04:002008-08-11T13:26:47.573-04:00Fri. Aug. 8<div><strong><em>Questions:</em></strong></div> <ol> <li>Africa History?</li> <li>American History?</li> <li>The apprentice : my life in the kitchen / Jacques Pépin.? (Hold Pick up)</li> <li>Mayflower?</li></ol> Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15019799.post-40737271784273477412008-08-08T10:16:00.001-04:002008-08-08T10:16:57.044-04:00Thurs. Aug. 7<div><strong><em>Questions:</em></strong></div> <ol> <li>Stalingrad?</li> <li>Louise Hays?</li> <li>Pursuit of Happyness?</li> <li>Who distributed the movie Napoleon?</li> <li>Who distributed the movie The House of Rothschild ?</li> <li>Autobiography of Julie Andrews?</li> <li>What was Jimmy from the "Mickey Mouse Clubs Birthday? (<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0230082/" target="_blank">March 28 1910</a>)</li> <li>Do I need my library card to print?</li></ol> Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15019799.post-40096824129869321112008-08-07T17:25:00.001-04:002008-08-07T17:25:20.024-04:00Wed. Aug. 6<div dir="ltr"> <div><b><i>Questions:</i></b></div> <ol> <li>Dreams From My Father?</li> <li>Grand Canyon Travel Guide??</li> <li>California coast Travel Guide?</li> <li>David Walker?</li> <li>Dreams From My Father?</li> <li>Hitler's Priests?</li> <li>Who is on the Canadian quarter?<br></li></ol></div> Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15019799.post-24943000850576481092008-08-05T16:18:00.001-04:002008-08-05T16:18:16.637-04:00Tues. Aug. 5<div dir="ltr"><i><b>Questions:</b></i><br><ol><li>Mafia?</li><li>Horror Movies?</li><li>American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China</li></ol> </div> Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15019799.post-87441411188767425202008-08-04T16:58:00.001-04:002008-08-04T16:58:50.141-04:00Mon. Aug. 4<div><strong><em>Questions:</em></strong></div> <ol> <li>Computers?</li> <li>Restroom?</li> <li>Jennifer Haigh?</li> <li>Ireland Display?</li> <li>Gotti?</li> <li>Last Names?</li> <li>355 Highway?</li> <li>Alice Paul? (No books in)</li></ol> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com