Tuesday, February 28, 2006

Laissez Les Bon Temps Roulez!

Questions:

  1. Ohio travel guide?
  2. Kentucky travel guide?
  3. North Carolina travel guide?
  4. Where is the sign language class?
  5. Can I eat my lunch a this table?
  6. How can I better annoy my co-worker?
  7. What do the Mardi Gras colors mean? (Purple represents justice, green stands for faith
    gold stands for power, These colors were chosen in 1872 by Romanoff. ) http://www.holidays.net/mardigras/story.htm; http://www.novareinna.com/festive/mardi.html

Monday, February 27, 2006

Mon. Feb. 27

Questions:
  1. What time does the library close?
  2. H.L. Mencken?
  3. 328 section?
  4. 92 section?
  5. Extraordinary Women on the Medieval and Renaissance World (REF)
  6. Defender of the faith: William Jennings Bryan; the last decade, 1915-1925 [by] Lawrence W. Levine

Friday, February 24, 2006

Fri. Feb. 24

Questions:
  1. How do I search for an author?
  2. Autobiography of Mark Twain (Hold pick up)
  3. Word help?
  4. Magnifying glass?
  5. Richmond burning : the last days of the Confederate capital / Nelson D. Lankford. (Hold CPK)
  6. 1491 : new revelations of the Americas before Columbus / Charles C. Mann.
  7. The motorcycle diaries : a journey around South America / Ernesto Che Guevara
  8. Team of rivals : the political genius of Abraham Lincoln / Doris Kearns Goodwin (Hold CPK)
  9. Is there a computer in here that I can see where I am on the waiting list?
  10. Ink Pen?
  11. Map of North America, South America, Africa..?
  12. Assata Shakur
  13. Che Guevara
  14. Caste system in India (Country Study and Encyclopedia of world countries)

Thursday, February 23, 2006

Thurs. Feb. 23

Questions:

  1. Turkey History?
  2. What is the weather like in the room?
  3. Korean History?
  4. Marvin Gaye?
  5. An illustrated guide to Korean culture : 233 traditional key words / The National Academy of the Korean Language.
  6. Will you read a poem in April?

Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Wed. Feb. 22

Questions:
  1. Los Angeles History
  2. Diary of a young girl by Anne Frank
  3. Excel help?
  4. Where is Room 223?
  5. Guinness book of world records?

Tuesday, February 21, 2006

Tues. Feb. 21

Questions:

  1. 10th amendment? (The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.) http://www.archives.gov/national-archives-experience/charters/bill_of_rights_transcript.html
  2. Langston Hughes?
  3. Can I use the phone?
  4. Writings of Lyndon B. Johnson?
  5. Jacob Riis
  6. Tony Robbins books?
  7. Proceedings of the Black State conventions, 1840-1865
  8. Courting justice : from NY Yankees v. Major League Baseball to Bush v. Gore, 1997-2000 / David Boies
  9. History of Africa?
  10. History of Nigeria?

Friday, February 17, 2006

Fri. Feb.17

Questions:
  1. A very different age : Americans of the progressive era / Steven J. Diner (Hold from CCH not arrive, Called SOE pick-up there)
  2. Women in Medieval Europe (914.031, 940.1 942, and other countries)
  3. Mary Mckinlay, an artist?
  4. Truman Capote biography?
  5. Government division?
  6. magnifying glass?
  7. Harriet Tubman
  8. Black Inventors?
  9. Sculptures?

Removed Patron eating 1:05 PM

Thursday, February 16, 2006

Thurs. Feb. 16

Questions:

  1. King Icahn : the biography of a renegade capitalist / Stevens, Mark (missing? re-order?)
  2. Encyclopedias?
  3. The Gorbachev era / edited by Alexander Dallin and Condoleezza Rice.
  4. Wshingtoniana telephone number?
  5. Where is Worm's Heads? (Gower Peninsular, Swansea County, south west Wales, U.K. http://www.welshwales.co.uk/swansea_map.htm)

Wednesday, February 15, 2006

February Reads

Sex With Kings by Eleanor Herman
Steamy stuff, check out http://histbiogbookclub.blogspot.com/ for the book club listing. I'm creating a "who's with who" chart to keep all of it straight!

Merrick by Anne Rice
3rd try , but I'm hooked! I've never thought the Witches series was as strong as the Vampire series, and here we have both.
(Going to NOLA in June, so look for a lot of New Orleans books in the lists to come! )

New Orleans Ghost V. 1, 2, & 3 by Victor C. Klein
Rereading these to get in the 'spirit' as it where. Excellent collections of tales. V.2 is a little weak, and not the best of the lot.

Wed. Feb 15

Questions:

  1. Manhunt : the twelve day chase for Lincoln's killer / Swanson, James (on order)
  2. David Lean?
  3. Book Club book?
  4. Where are Britain Geography books?
  5. How do I sort in Excel?

Tuesday, February 14, 2006

Tues. Feb. 14

Questions:
  1. Marion Anderson?
  2. Hungry Travel guides?
  3. Czech Republic Travel guides?
  4. Night?
  5. Books on CD?
  6. Maps and Atlas?
  7. Florence Griffith Joyner (no books here)
  8. Paul Robeson?

Monday, February 13, 2006

Mon. Feb. 13

When is a "new edition" a new edition, and when does it need a new call number? Well, according to Cataloging, 25 new pages require a new call number.

Questions:

  1. Maryland population
  2. My sense of silence :memoirs of a childhood with deafness /Lennard J. Davis.
  3. Moira Kelly's Birthday
  4. D.B. Sweeney's Birthday
  5. Who was "Frank Militant (or Milltone, Mileton, Millton)". He had something to do with Rosa Parks and the Bus Boycott.

Saturday, February 11, 2006

Sat. Feb. 11

Questions:

  1. We are witnesses : five diaries of teenagers who died in the Holocaust / [edited] by Jacob
    Boas ; foreword by Patricia C. McKissack
  2. Holocaust (940.531)?
  3. Slavery (306.362, 326)?
  4. Bollywood?
  5. Germany's Black Holocaust by Carr?
  6. Landscape paintings?
  7. Langston Hughes?
  8. 925 section?
  9. 1800's music history?
  10. Copier?
  11. 923 section?
  12. Eco-heroes : twelve tales of environmental victory / Wallace, Aubrey (re-order?)
  13. Baltimore County Map? (No)
  14. PG County Map?
  15. BROWN, STERLING ALLEN books?
  16. How do you work the copier?
  17. how do you print off the computer?
  18. Uncle Tom's Cabin?
  19. Newspaper?
  20. Biographies?
  21. Romance novels?
  22. Six wives : the queens of Henry VIII / Starkey, David.
  23. Copy machine?
  24. Where can I eat in here? (No where!)
  25. History of the Peloponnesian War / Thucydides
  26. Fodor's Israel Travel guide?
  27. Bessie Coleman?
  28. Books about singers?

Thursday, February 09, 2006

Thurs. Feb. 9

Class Visit
School: Options Public Charter School
12 - 15 students
Subject: Black Inventors


Questions:
  1. Can you watch my stuff? (Why? Does it do tricks???)
  2. Did you call security? (err... No...)
  3. Saddam Hussein?
  4. Lonely Planet Israel Travel guide?
  5. Women in the American Revolution / by Paul Engle?
  6. Dada history?
  7. Washroom?
  8. Dictionary on the Middle Ages V.4
  9. Sex With Kings?
  10. Look for the woman : a narrative encyclopedia of female poisoners, kidnappers, thieves, extortionists, terrorists, swindlers, and spies, from Elizabethan times to the present / Jay Robert Nash.
  11. Where is the sign in computer?

Wednesday, February 08, 2006

Wed. Feb. 8

Questions:
  1. Can I check these books out?
  2. People magazine?
  3. Country books?
  4. National History Museum?
  5. Harry Winston?
  6. Early 20th century French funerals? (yikes!)
  7. The patriarch : the rise and fall of the Bingham dynasty / Susan E. Tifft, Alex S. Jones
  8. Telephone with TTY? (Not for public, refered to JR)
  9. History of Rwanada?
  10. Slavery?
  11. Holocaust?
  12. Funerals, Politics, and Memory in Modern France, 1789-1996 by Avner Ben-Amos

Tuesday, February 07, 2006

Tues. Feb. 7

Today was a good day, so far... Saw my former boss, and one of my favorite people SV. My image of her will always be her dashing around, and today was no different, but even so it's always so nice to see her.

Questions:
  1. Biography of Gandhi, Mohandas?
  2. Articles on Gandhi, Mohandas?
  3. Mirror to America : the autobiography of John Hope Franklin (hold placed)
  4. Pencil sharpener?
  5. Going to the Board meeting? (yes) Can I tag along? (No.....) ( just kidding B the amazing finder of lost books!)
  6. What is that woman doing??? (Okay... It's my question, a woman is patting her face all over with a wrapper of some sort. Houston, we may have found alien life!)
  7. The tricky part : one boy's fall from trespass into grace / Martin Moran (pick-up)
  8. Dominican republic Travel guide?
  9. Where is you copy machine?
  10. Where did she go??? (oh no, Librarian on the loose! Librarian on the loose!)
  11. She got up off the couch : a memoir / Haven Kimmel (SOE called, MLK copy not rec)
  12. Picture of boardwalk with people at night?

Monday, February 06, 2006

Mon. Feb. 6

Questions:
  1. Scissors?
  2. 92 J section?
  3. Us Immigration 1800. (325.73, 304.873, 305.906, 973.0495)
  4. Audrey Hepburn?
  5. How do I sign up for a computer?
  6. LA gang 'crips' (Life in prison / by Stanley "Tookie" Williams Always running : la Vida loca, gan Rodriguez, Luis J. & Monster : the autobiography of an Shakur, Sanyika)
  7. Why are the computer screens hidden?

Friday, February 03, 2006

Fri. Feb. 3

Questions:

  1. Nicaragua travel guides?
  2. Guatemala travel guides?
  3. Portugal travel guides?
  4. Ellen Ochoa pictures, with her inventions?
  5. Check out books here?
  6. Book: History of Alpha Phi Alpha?
  7. MARGARET GARNER by Toni Morrison?
  8. MARGARET GARNER?
  9. Is my e-mail attached to my card?
  10. 1776 / McCullough, David G?
  11. American vertigo? (please order)
  12. Althea Gibson?
  13. Colonial Spanish America?
  14. Someone cut a picture out of the Ossie Davis book, will you replace it?
  15. People Magazine?
  16. Mao by Chang (SOW)
  17. Road map of DC?
  18. Italy travel guides?
  19. Mike Tyson?
  20. Harem years : the memoirs of an Egyptian feminist (1879-1924) / by Huda Shaarawi
  21. Eleanor Holmes Norton : fire in my soul (pick up)

Actions:

  1. Flyers posted at 3 Starbucks, Caribou coffee, 2 Cosi's, Trover book shop, Barnes & Nobel.
  2. Updated book club bookmark.
  3. Obits

Thursday, February 02, 2006

Thurs. Feb. 2

Questions:

  1. Sign up computer?
  2. Where is the DCPL letterhead?
  3. Do you check out here?
  4. Sojouner Truth?
  5. Race rebels : culture, politics, and the Black working class / Robin D.G. Kelley?
  6. A very different age : Americans of the progressive era / Steven J. Diner (CCH)

Wednesday, February 01, 2006

Wed. Feb. 1

Questions:

  1. Frommer's South Africa Travel guide?
  2. Namibia travel guide?
  3. Mauritius Travel guide?
  4. Are all military funeral caskets closed?
  5. Mali culture?
  6. Native American Tribes?
  7. Nacotchtank Indians?
  8. Spain history?
  9. Native American Tribes?
  10. French history?
  11. Mali culture?
  12. Native American Tribes?
  13. Dictionary?
  14. Thesaurus?
  15. Biblographic information on the book Night?
  16. How do I find people?
  17. Cenus 1950?
  18. Books by Brian Fagan?
  19. Quest for the past : great discoveries in archaeology / Brian M. Fagan.
  20. The rape of the Nile : tomb robbers, tourists, and archaeologists in Egypt / Brian
    M. Fagan.