Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Tues. Oct. 10

Questions:

  1. Restroom?
  2. Check out downstairs?
  3. Burundi / Brennan, Kristine (Hold LAR)
  4. Middle passage? (306.36, 382.44, Amistad 973.04)
  5. This boy's life : a memoir / Wolff, Tobias (Hold CPK & WEE)

Saturday, October 07, 2006

Contact - Oct. 6

Contact: Matthew Brandon School for Arts in Learning (SAIL) Public Charter School, Washington, DC, Grades K-9 http://www.wvsarts.org/ 1100 16th Street, NW Washington, DC 20036 202.296.9100

Requested meeting: Tue. Oct 10 or Wed. 11

This is a teacher who teaches History, and consults on another class. Students have no text books, and is looking to see what we have in the way of texts.

Class #1: Ancient History: Rome

Class #2: Early American History: Native Americans

Sat. Oct. 7

Questions:

  1. When are you closing for renovation?
  2. Where do I put these books?
  3. Where are the comics?
  4. Scrap paper?
  5. 500 Section?
  6. Long Island picture book?
  7. Reference books on Africa?
  8. Black Studies section?
  9. Reference book on the Signers of the declaration of independence families?
  10. Pre-colonial Madagascar? (pre-colonial period is before 1894)
  11. How do I use the copy machine?
  12. Restroom?
  13. Can you watch this? (why? Does it do tricks?)
  14. Censorship of books in the Puritan era?
  15. 500 Section?
  16. Walt Whitman's America : a cultural biography / Reynolds, David S
  17. 920 section?
  18. Skara Brae? (The Neolithic village of Skara Brae lies on the shore of the Bay of Skaill on the west coast of Orkney's Mainland, north of Scotland)
  19. The Puritan ordeal / Delbanco, Andrew (PHIL)
  20. Colonial Chesapeake society (Hold pick-up)
  21. Colonial New Jersey; a history / Pomfret, John Edwin (Checked out)
  22. A world restored; Metternich, Castlereagh and the problems of peace, Kissinger, Henry (Copy gone. Hold PAL pick up here)
  23. Do you have a book I check out recollections of Lincoln grant and Sherman by an author named Dodge? (DODGE, GRENVILLE MELLEN Title :GENERAL ULYSSES S. GRANT AND GENERAL WILLIAM T. SHERMAN Is a BROF and needs a more complete title Hold placed for when it comes back Personal Recollections of President Abraham Lincoln, General Ulysses S. Grant And General William T. Sherman is the correct title)
  24. "Whip the rebellion" : Ulysses S. Grant's rise to command / George Walsh (on order)
  25. Restroom, other than the third floor)
  26. Glover park history?
  27. Who is the artist of the art deco paintings in the lobby?
  28. Do you have text books?

Actions:

  • Delete books: 1
  • Mongolian exhibit to pick up handouts for Chinggis Khan

Thursday, October 05, 2006

Thurs. Oct. 5

Questions:


  1. Australia Travel Guide
  2. Working with Roosevelt / Rosenman, Samuel Irving, (GEO hold)
  3. Philadelphia Travel guide?
  4. Check out here?

Wednesday, October 04, 2006

Wed. Oct. 4

Questions:

  1. Restroom?
  2. Japan Travel Guide?
  3. Restroom?
  4. Fifth quarter : the scrimmage of a football coach's daughter / Jennifer Allen. (Hold - Storage)
  5. I want that popular book written by the post writer?
  6. Do you have any good books?
  7. Do you have any juicy scandal books?
  8. What is Southwest library's Phone number?
  9. What became of the All State's Hotel from the 1930's?
  10. Gothic Culture?
  11. The good rain : across time and terrain in the Pacific Northwest / Timothy Egan

Actions:

  • Horrors of History Display
  • Deleted: 2

Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Tues. Oct. 3

Questions:
  1. Copy Card?
  2. Copy Card?
  3. Five lessons: the modern fundamentals of golf / Hogan, Ben
  4. Caravaggio : painter of miracles / Prose, Francine,
  5. History of India post 1947
  6. The lost painting / Harr, Jonathan

Actions:

  • Copier not accepting change, emptied jam
  • Removed from basement: 35

Monday, October 02, 2006

Mon. Oct. 2

Questions:
  1. Children's Room?
  2. How do you enlarge on the copier?
  3. Where is the statue of Gandhi in DC?
  4. Why won't my attachment download?
  5. How do you enlarge on the copier?
  6. CD Drive?
  7. Children's Room?
  8. Government section?
  9. 380 section?
  10. 791 section?
  11. I want to send this resume to my e-mail, how do I do it?
  12. America Comes of Middle Age (Hold GEO)
  13. Meaning of the Last Name Russell?
  14. Honduras Travel Guide?
  15. Japanese to English Dictionary?

Friday, September 29, 2006

Fri. Sept. 29

Questions:
  1. Minnesota Travel Guide?
  2. 929 section?
  3. DVD section?
  4. Can I leave my jacket there?
  5. Sign up computer?
  6. Where do I put money on my card?
  7. Books on Ethiopia culture?
  8. Library cataloge?
  9. How many CD's can I check out?
  10. Plastic Bag?

Actions:

  • National Book Festival orientation
  • Delelvered flyers (New: Starbucks, 12 & G, CalTort at 7&H)

Thursday, September 28, 2006

Thurs. Sept. 28

Questions:

  1. New biography about Frank Furness?
  2. What was J. Edgar Hoover's Washington residence?
  3. When love calls you better answer : a novel / Berry, Bertice?
  4. 370 section?

Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Wed. Sept. 27

Questions:

  1. Vancouver Travel Guides
  2. Celtic History?
  3. Blue Dolphin?
  4. What does a King or Queen do?
  5. Cost to Baltimore?
  6. Running with scissors : a memoir / Burroughs, Augusten.
  7. Argentina Travel Guide
  8. Hurricane Katrina?
  9. Which computer am I at?
  10. Clovis?
  11. Mariah Carey?
  12. Photocopier

Actions:

  • Removed - 3
  • 2 classes AM- 14 PM-18

Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Tues. Sept. 26

Questions:

  1. 956 section?
  2. 327 section?
  3. Calendar?
  4. Fax machine?

Actions:

  • 1 to Bindery
  • Last night 7 at the book club

Monday, September 25, 2006

Mon. Sept. 25

Questions:
  1. Autobiography of Malcolm X?
  2. Breaking into music publishing?
  3. Scrap paper?

Saturday, September 23, 2006

Sat. Sept. 23

Questions:


  1. 933 section?
  2. People magazine?
  3. Anime exhibit?
  4. Address for Reverend R Z Miller of the Spirit of Peace Church in Louisville Kentucky?
  5. Pencil?
  6. What is the first name of the Mayor of New York, last name Beame (Mayor Abraham Beame)
  7. What is the First name of the Spanish Author, last name Balsco? (Vicente Blasco Ibáñez?)
  8. Choctaw Indians?
  9. Where do I check out books?
  10. Zane books?
  11. The stranger / Camus, Albert (Hold Pick-up)
  12. Clive Cussler?
  13. Phone?
  14. Sign up computer?
  15. Computer #1?
  16. Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything / Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. (hold CPK)
  17. The Devil wears Prada / Weisberger, Lauren
  18. Washington Post?
  19. Lonely Planet guides?
  20. Copier Help?
  21. Copier?
  22. Map of Africa?

Thursday, September 21, 2006

Thurs. Sept. 21

Question:

  1. Maps of the Middle East?
  2. State of emergency : the third world invasion and conquest of America / Patrick J. Buchanan.
  3. Travel Costa Rica?
  4. What was the Dark Ages?
  5. Africa and Slavery?
  6. The journals of Lewis and Clark
  7. Maps of Germany?

Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Wed. Sept. 20

Question:

  1. Al Capone
  2. Malcolm X
  3. Muhammad Ali
  4. Do you have pictures of Washington through the years?
  5. Restroom?
  6. Restroom?
  7. 92 E section?
  8. Maryland Travel Guide?
  9. Spain History?
  10. Language Books?
  11. People Magazine?
  12. Michelin Red Guide Main Cities of Europe 2006?
  13. Books on tape?
  14. Where is this CD?
  15. Are you open?
  16. Diabetes?

Monday, September 18, 2006

Mon. Sept. 18

Questions:

  1. Mason Rights (Virginia Declaration of Rights )
  2. Pen?
  3. Sign in Computer?
  4. Genealogy microfilm?
  5. Kennedy Women (Hold Pick-up)
  6. The sword of no-sword : life of the master warrior Tesshu / Stevens, J

Tuesday, September 05, 2006

Tues. Sept. 5

Questions:
  1. Tutor England?
  2. Philadelphia Travel guide?
  3. Books on the 1950's?

Saturday, September 02, 2006

Sat. Sept. 2

Questions:

  1. Museum Information
  2. Assassination vacation / Vowell, Sarah
  3. Everything is illuminated : a novel / Foer, Jonathan Safran
  4. Can I view computer reservations in other rooms?
  5. Washington Post?
  6. Check out?
  7. What day of the week was Oct 4 in 1970?
  8. Confessions of a video vixen
  9. Hawaii History?
  10. When did WW2 end?
  11. Can you make copies for me?
  12. Can you make copies for me?
  13. Can you make copies for me? (ok, enough, someone else take over please)

Thursday, August 31, 2006

Thurs. Aug. 31

Questions:

  1. How do you insert a check mark in a word document?
  2. Neoconservatism by Murray
  3. Twilight of the Habsburgs : the life and times of Emperor Francis Joseph / Alan Palmer. (missing?)
  4. Marie Antoinette : the last queen of France / Lever, Evelyne. (Hold pick up from storage)
  5. Marie Antoinette : the journey / Fraser, Antonia (Hold pick up)
  6. Marie Antoinette, the portrait of an average woman / Zweig, Stefan (Hold pick up)
  7. Afghanistan history
  8. The end of victory culture : cold war America and the disillusioning of a generation / Tom Engelhardt(missing)
  9. Is Paris burning? / Collins, Larry
  10. Marie Antoinette
  11. Is this the Philosophy Division?
  12. Green umbrella?

Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Wed. Aug, 30

Questions:

  1. Pen?
  2. PG County Map?
  3. Mongomery County Map?
  4. The irreverent Mr. Mencken / Kemler, Edgar. (missing)
  5. The death of a President (Hold pick-up)
  6. Cassius
  7. Minor of rome

sleeping incident.

Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Tues. Aug. 29

Questions:
  1. My site has been infected with a virus. (okay, and you're telling me because?)
  2. Duke Ellington Biography?
  3. Duke Ellington music?
  4. CD's on Bob Marley?
  5. Calculator?
  6. How many books can you check out?
  7. Do you check out downstairs?
  8. George Reeves?
  9. Room 226?
  10. Hawaii Travel Guide?

Monday, August 28, 2006

Mon Aug. 29

Questions:


  1. What are the dates of the last weekend in August?
  2. Stonewall : the riots that sparked the gay revolution / David Carter
  3. How do I make the book record not read 'missing'?
  4. Yugoslavia Travel Guide?
  5. Chaim Weizmann : the making of a Zionist leader / Reinharz, Jehuda.
  6. Zionism?
  7. Address for Jay Forrest Hein?
  8. Address for Sen. Dan Coates? (coats)
  9. Running with scissors : a memoir / Burroughs, Augusten (Hold from GEO)
  10. Angela Davis; an autobiography / Davis, Angela Yvonne (Hold pick-up)
  11. Langston Hughes?
  12. Five largest countries in the world?
  13. What country is Mount Everest in?
  14. Can I add money to my card?
  15. Where does my document print to?
  16. Photos of Pittsburgh in the 1920's

Saturday, August 26, 2006

Sat. Aug. 26

Questions:
  1. James H Webb?
  2. Books written by James Henry Webb?
  3. Ned Lamont?
  4. When are you giving the POP division a break? (You really don't want my answer to this)
  5. The copier jammed, can you help?
  6. Dreams from my father : a story of race and inheritance / Barack Obama. (Hold CPK)
  7. Tin foil?
  8. Saran wrap?
  9. Do you want to re shelve these? (You really, REALLY don't want my answer to this)
  10. Scrap paper?
  11. Wisconsin Travel Guide?
  12. James E. Taylor Sketch book
  13. Henry Ford, a great life in brief / Burlingame, Roger (Missing)
  14. Scrap Paper?
  15. Indian Religions
  16. Did Nixon serve in the military?
  17. Did Ford serve in the military?
  18. Was JFK a Lawyer?
  19. Was Ford a Lawyer?
  20. Which war did Jimmy Carter serve in?
  21. Princes of darkness : the Saudi assault on the West / Laurent Murawiec ; translated by George Holoch.
  22. Do you have any books with charts to compare the different presidents?
  23. Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor?
  24. Prince Charles and Camilla?
  25. This weeks Approval rating of President Bush?
  26. Do you have a handout to tell how the library is arranged?
  27. Are you all closed next week?
  28. Can you renew my book?
  29. Washington Bar History?
  30. What books do you have written about Marvin Gaye?
  31. What videos do you have about Marvin Gaye?
  32. World history, patterns of civilization / Burton F. Beers (No Vols)
  33. Indonesia Travel Guide?
  34. Ireland Travel Guide?
  35. The killing of the unicorn : Dorothy Stratten (1960-1980) / Peter Bogdanovich. (Hold MTP)
  36. Where is the 92 g section?
  37. What is required to use the computer? (want to insert joke, a little punchy, so I won't)
  38. What can I use to look up books? (Once again, joke is needed, showing remarkable restraint)
  39. My name is red and it says go to BUS-07 where do I go?
  40. Can I use any computer?
  41. Where is the Xerox machine?

Actions:

  • Relabeled 6 books
  • All alone on desk + 2 full carts to shelve = No breaks or lunch.

Thursday, August 24, 2006

Thurs. Aug. 24

Questions:

  1. The Jewish people in America ; v. 3 A time for building : the third migration, 1880-1920 / Sorin, Gerald, (Missing)
  2. Magnifying glass?
  3. Concert tomorrow night?
  4. Music is my mistress / Ellington, Duke, (Hold CCH)
  5. Computer?
  6. Domincan Republic Travel Guide?
  7. Haile Sellassie?
  8. Biography Reference section?
  9. Sheltered by the King by Marta Gabre-Tsadick? (Order?)
  10. Check out here?
  11. Dallas City map?
  12. CD?
  13. Value of foregin money?
  14. Exit into history : a journey through the new Eastern Europe / Eva Hoffman.
  15. The haunted land : facing Europe's ghosts after communism / Tina Rosenberg.
  16. Restroom?
  17. Color of Water by McBride (Hold pick-up)
  18. I put a spell on you : the autobiography of Nina Simone / Nina Simone with Stephen Cleary.

Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Wed. Aug. 23

Questions:
  1. Travel Literature?
  2. Is that clock correct?
  3. Where is my book on Paris Hilton?
  4. Where are the coin price guides?
  5. Vietnam oversize books?
  6. Autobiography of a face / Grealy, Lucy (Hold for TPK)
  7. Magnifying glass?
  8. Korea Travel Guide?
  9. Cleveland Travel Guide?
  10. Do I check out here?
  11. Where is the 92 J section?
  12. New York Times almanac?
  13. Genealogy Sources?
  14. Did you ever work for Disney? (Disney people point with more than one finger, as not to be rudely 'pointing')
  15. Seminole indians?
  16. Our man in Belize / Conroy, Richard Timothy (pick up)
  17. Beyond the Mexique bay / Huxley, Aldous

Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Tues. Aug. 22

Questions:
  1. Alwaleed : businessman, billionaire, prince / Khan, Riz.
  2. Where is computer #3?
  3. Restroom?
  4. Cal Ripken?
  5. Government Division?
  6. Bullwhip days : the slaves remember / edited and with an introduction by James Mellon.
  7. Address for Yolanda Walker?
  8. Address for Gwen Ifill?
  9. Address for Joe Gibbs? (also c/o Washington Redskins 21300 Redskin Park Drive Ashburn, VA 20147 )
  10. Queen Charlotte?
  11. Mad King George?

Monday, August 21, 2006

Mon. Aug. 21

Questions:
  1. Angela Davis; an autobiography / Davis, Angela Yvonne (Hold pick-up)
  2. How do you password protect a document?
  3. 92 f section?
  4. Ludwig II?
  5. History of Bavaria?
  6. Gore Vidal's American Presidency (We do not own 973 ??)
  7. Who is the director of omb? (Rob Portman)
  8. Who is the Press secretary (Tony Snow)
  9. Children's Room?
  10. Fiasco : the American military adventure in Iraq / Thomas E. Ricks. (Hold Placed)
  11. How do I suggest titles?
  12. Rough Guide to Jordan?
  13. Did anyone turn in a print card?
  14. Monk in the garden?
  15. What day of the week was Nov. 24 1984? (Wednesday)
  16. The dark child / Camara, Laye. (Hold not placed by branch, Hold placed on CAV lib card)

Friday, August 18, 2006

Fri. Aug. 18

Questions:


  1. Pirates?
  2. Five Jewish lawyers of the common law / Goodhart, Arthur Lehman, Sir, (Missing)
  3. My computer's frozen, can you come and look at it?
  4. Female Brando : the legend of Kim Stanley / Krampner, Jon
  5. Fiasco : the American military adventure in Iraq / Ricks, Thomas E (hold placed)
  6. Who was Cassius? (Caius Cassius Longinus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Death: 42 B.C. Roman Army Officer, Politician Led conspiracy to murder Caesar, 44 BC. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE REF 937.0603 B942a)
  7. Martinique Travel Guides?
  8. Elvis Presley?
  9. Pen?
  10. Wifi?
  11. Restroom?
  12. Books on the constitution?
  13. Can I print my Resume?
  14. Where do I log in?
  15. My FBI : bringing down the Mafia, investigating Bill Clinton, and fighting the War on Terror / Louis J. Freeh
  16. The Empire State Building : the making of a landmark / Tauranac, John (Hold CPK)
  17. Roy Rayond (creator of Victoria's Sceret)

Biog section: G Storage and Shelf

  • Storage: 1
  • Withdrawn: 5
  • Removed from Cat: 3

Thursday, August 17, 2006

Thurs. Aug. 17

Questions:
  1. New York Travel Guides?
  2. Paris Travel Travel Guide?
  3. Scrap paper?
  4. Pen?
  5. Sign up computer?
  6. When I was Puerto Rican / Santiago, Esmeralda
  7. Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
  8. Have they banned people from using the A: drive on the computer?
  9. 92 Section?
  10. Where is the children's room?
  11. Restroom?
  12. Address of the Pope?
  13. Address of the Mayor?
  14. Does this catalogs belong in History?
  15. DC and Maryland phone books?
  16. Are all of your tables at the front of the aisle, are there any at the back of the aisle?
  17. Are all of the rooms designed the same way?

Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Wed. Aug. 16

Questions:
  1. A Lesson Before Dying?
  2. Biographies of Musicians?
  3. When I was Puerto Rican / Santiago, Esmeralda.
  4. Can you download a document off an e-mail?
  5. Condoleezza Rice Biography?
  6. Dorothy Healey remembers : a life in the American communist party / Dorothy Healey, Maurice Isserman (Hold @CPK)
  7. I made 4 copies when I meant to make 1, can you help?
  8. Paris Travel Guide?
  9. Seattle Travel Guide?
  10. How do I search on CityCat?
  11. Marius Bewley?
  12. The Author's and Writer's Who's Who?
  13. Bill Clinton?
  14. People Magazine?
  15. Jim Brady?
  16. Government section?
  17. Government section?
  18. Music industry producing?

Actions:

Bio section:G-O (dups)

  • Storage: 16
  • Withdrawn: 20
  • Removed from Cat: 2

Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Tues. Aug. 15

Questions:

  1. Katherine Dunham?
  2. Pearl Primus?
  3. Books written by Katharine Dunham?
  4. Do you have any books on Nancy Reagan's Astrologer?
  5. Who was the DC Mayor while Reagan was President? (Marion Barry)
  6. Does Nancy Reagan live in DC? (No Los Angles CA)
  7. Do you subscribe to mapquest?
  8. What is the phone number for the Rockville branch of the MCPL?
  9. The World War II Memorial : a grateful nation remembers / Douglas Brinkley
  10. The Wall : a day in the life of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial / Peter Meyer and the editors of Life (Missing)
  11. History of TV?
  12. Papua New Guinea Travel Guides?
  13. New York State Travel Guides?
  14. Can I leave my books here while I go outside for a smoke?
  15. Is Georgia Avenue the longest Street in DC? (no, Massachusetts Avenue is, and it's tied for the widest with Penn.)
  16. Are we in the 20th or 21st Century?
  17. Where can I check out?
  18. Do I leave my books on the table?
  19. Statue of liberty?
  20. 92 section?

8 items removed from catalog

Monday, August 14, 2006

Mon. Aug. 14

Questions:
  1. Possible side effects / Burroughs, Augusten. (Hold from GEO)
  2. Lord of the flies, by William Golding (Hold SPK)
  3. Up from slavery; an autobiography / Washington, Booker T., (Hold SPK)
  4. 1776 / McCullough, David (Hold pick-up)
  5. Truman / McCullough, David (Hold pick up)
  6. Nicole Richie bio?
  7. Amsterdam Travel Guide?
  8. Restroom?
  9. Can I print?
  10. Congressional section?
  11. Where can I print?
  12. How do I sign up on the computer?

Friday, August 11, 2006

Fri. Aug. 11

Questions:


  1. The magic lantern : the revolution of '89 witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, and
    Prague / Timothy Garton Ash. (Hold to NOE)
  2. Japan Travel Guide?
  3. Louisiana Travel Guide?
  4. Don't call me Madam : the life and hard times of a gentleman pimp / William Donaldson (Missing)
  5. How do you spell 'Chemical' and 'chemistry'?
  6. Listing of all of Bill Bryson's books that the DC Library owns?
  7. Restroom?
  8. These books are from the Black Studies section, do you have copies of them here?
  9. How would you handle this situation, I've just had an argument with my boyfriend and I'm really mad at him... (Whoa! Too much information)

Thursday, August 10, 2006

Thurs. Aug. 10

Questions:
  1. How do I print?
  2. Gateway to Japan / Kinoshita, June (Hold Pick-up)
  3. Who is third in line in the Presidential Succession? (Ted Stevens) (History of the line)
  4. People magazine?
  5. Is your collection like an academic collection?
  6. Mockingbird : a portrait of Harper Lee / Shields, Charles J. (Missing Hold NOE called)
  7. Scratch paper?
  8. Bohemian live style?
  9. Middle East History?
  10. Egypt history with pictures of hair styles (w/assist by LG)
  11. Jacqueline Kennedy : the White House Years : selections from the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum / [compiled and edited by] Hamish Bowles

Wednesday, August 09, 2006

Wed. Aug. 9

Questions:

  1. Marquis who's who listing for Hyman Levinstein?
  2. Where do I check out?
  3. What date is Easter Sunday in 2007? Holiday Calendar
  4. Diary of Anne Frank
  5. The hill towns of Italy / Kauffman, Richard (Hold WEE)

Actions:

  • Security report filed
  • Pharos brief upset

Tuesday, August 08, 2006

Tue. Aug. 8

Questions:
  1. Where is the printer?
  2. Where do I get a vend card?
  3. Where do I get a vend card?
  4. Where do I get a vend card?
  5. What time do you close?
  6. Can I take these newspapers?
  7. Autobiography of Malcolm X?

Monday, August 07, 2006

Mon. Aug. 7

Questions:

  1. Pictures of Washington DC?
  2. Pictures of St. Louis?
  3. Al on America by Al Sharpton (Hold SOE)
  4. Atlas?
  5. Atlas of USA?
  6. Government division?

Actions:

  • Started periodicals

Saturday, August 05, 2006

Sat. Aug 5

Questions:
  1. President's papers?
  2. Map of the oxus river?
  3. Pictures of DC and New York
  4. DC Nannies?
  5. I put my library card in the vend card reader, what's a vend card?

Thursday, August 03, 2006

Thurs. Aug. 3

Questions:

  1. Paris Travel Guide?
  2. How do I print?
  3. Sinatra : the life / Summers, Anthony
  4. Frank Sinatra / Turner, John Frayn
  5. My card won't come out, what do I do?
  6. Journals of Thoreau?
  7. Tommie Noonan birthday?

Wednesday, August 02, 2006

Wed. Aug. 2

Questions:

  1. The thirteenth tribe : the Khazar empire and its heritage / Koestler, (Hold from GEO)

Closed at 12:00 due to no AC.

Tuesday, August 01, 2006

Tues. Aug. 1

Closed at 4:30 PM due to no AC.

Monday, July 31, 2006

Mon. July 31

Questions:
  1. Information on Robert Johnson (guitar being sold for 6 million on e-bay)?
  2. Did Robert Johnson die from a Voodoo curse?
  3. How do you save?
  4. Can I turn the fan on?
  5. Where do I check out CDs?
  6. How do I print?
  7. Can I borrow this stool?
  8. Where are all the big trash cans? (filling up with water from all the condensation from the AC)
  9. When I was Puerto Rican by Santiago (Hold Pick up)
  10. Alexander Hamilton by Chernow?
  11. Mexico travel guide?
  12. The enemy at his pleasure : a journey through the Jewish pale of settlement during World War I / S. Ansky
  13. Restroom?
  14. Can I turn the fan on?
  15. Are we in the 20th or 21st century?
  16. Ecuador Travel Guide?
  17. Wall : the inside story of divided Berlin / Peter Wyden. (Hold Pick-up Wash Post)
  18. The Japanese art of war : understanding the culture of strategy / Thomas Cleary

Actions:

History of the World in 6 glasses display put up.

Friday, July 28, 2006

Fri. July 28

Questions:
  1. Is the Xerox machine working?
  2. Quicksands : a memoir / Bedford, Sybille? (Hold PAL)
  3. People Magazine?
  4. I'm looking for the book you have back there on a African-American Methodist minister written by someone named Bishop?
  5. Country study done by the Department of the Army
  6. Men of Honor DVD or book?
  7. Carl Brasher?

Thursday, July 27, 2006

Thurs. July 27

Questions:
  1. Tape?
  2. Children's room?
  3. I need to use a computer quick, where are they?
  4. Norway Travel Guides?
  5. Encyclopedia of world cultures?
  6. Where is this published?
  7. Map of Silver Spring?
  8. Someone turned the computer off, will I loose my turn?

Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Wed. July 26

Questions:
  1. People Magazine?
  2. Honduras Travel Guide?
  3. What is Francis Buckley's wife's name?
  4. Made in Detroit : a south of 8 Mile memoir / Clemens, Paul
  5. Magnifying glass?
  6. Bahamas Travel Guide?
  7. Where do I check out books?

Tuesday, July 25, 2006

Tues. July 25

Questions:
  1. Colorado Travel guide?
  2. Ethiopia Travel guide?
  3. Tennessee Civil War history?
  4. Berdan's Sharpshooters?
  5. Heathen days, 1890-1936 / Mencken, H. L.
  6. Lies across America : what our historic sites get wrong / James W. Loewen
  7. 956 section?
  8. DVDs?
  9. How many books can you check out?
  10. Can you check books out with ID if you have forgotten you Library Card?
  11. The Blue Nile / Moorehead, Alan (Hold CPK)

Monday, July 24, 2006

Mon. July 24

Questions:

  1. Race and reunion : the Civil War in American memory / David W. Blight.
  2. The year of magical thinking / Didion, Joan.
  3. Floor plan of England?
  4. Check out?
  5. Help with e-mail?
  6. Help with Excel?
  7. Manhunt / Peter Maas (Hold)
  8. Franco : a biography / Preston, Paul
  9. Tupac biography?
  10. The year of magical thinking / Didion, Joan.

Roaches falling from the ceiling

Blog Article

Google exec challenges Berners-Lee
A Google executive challenged Internet pioneer Tim Berners-Lee on his ideas for a Semantic Web during a conference in Boston on artificial intelligence.

Bloggers: A portrait of the internet's new storytellers
A Pew Internet study
The bulk of the 12 million blogging Americans focus on their personal experiences and blog to a very small audience.
A whopping 57 million online Americans are blog readers (39% of the entire online population).
44% of bloggers have also been published elsewhere.
77% of bloggers have shared original creative content (music, images, etc.)
44% of bloggers have remixed content they found online into their own creations (mashup!)
87% of bloggers allow comments (take that comment-spam-idiots...you can't beat us!)

Libraries that use del.icio.us
La Grange Park Library
Lansing Public Library - syndicates their del.icio.us feed right on their home page (along with their blog feed)!
Maui Community College Library - syndicates their feed on their “About” page, under the heading “Our Current Interests”. Sounds like a library with living, breathing human beings at work. Imagine! (note: they’re also on MySpace)
San Mateo Public Library - links organized in Dewey bundles!
Seldovia Public Library - syndicates their feed in their blog sidebar.
Thomas Ford Memorial Library - syndicates their feed on a neat little links page.

Don't read this if your squeamish

A patron in a green shirt jumped up and started cursing and moving around. Now this is somewhat normal behavior in the public library with your average amount of crazies and such. Another librarian was closer and spoke with the patron. Calmly she librarian walked over to me and told my that a Roach had fallen on him from the ceiling. Let me tell you he was a lot calmer that I would have been!

Sunday, July 23, 2006

Articles

Google exec challenges Berners-Lee A Google executive challenged Internet pioneer Tim Berners-Lee on his ideas for a Semantic Web during a conference in Boston on artificial intelligence.

Bloggers: A portrait of the internet's new storytellers
A Pew Internet study The bulk of the 12 million blogging Americans focus on their personal experiences and blog to a very small audience.
A whopping 57 million online Americans are blog readers (39% of the entire online population). 44% of bloggers have also been published elsewhere.
77% of bloggers have shared original creative content (music, images, etc.)
44% of bloggers have remixed content they found online into their own creations (mashup!)
87% of bloggers allow comments (take that comment-spam-idiots...you can't beat us!)

Libraries that use del.icio.us La Grange Park Library
Lansing Public Library - syndicates their del.icio.us feed right on their home page (along with their blog feed)!
Maui Community College Library - syndicates their feed on their “About” page, under the heading “Our Current Interests”. Sounds like a library with living, breathing human beings at work. Imagine! (note: they’re also on MySpace)
San Mateo Public Library - links organized in Dewey bundles!
Seldovia Public Library - syndicates their feed in their blog sidebar.
Thomas Ford Memorial Library - syndicates their feed on a neat little links page.

Friday, July 21, 2006

Fri. July 21

Questions:

  1. Can you recommend an Autobiography?
  2. The road from Coorain?
  3. Small pencil?
  4. Reference library of Black America?
  5. Information on the Nacotchtank tribe?
  6. A year by the sea : thoughts of an unfinished woman / Joan Anderson
  7. GED books?
  8. Property listings?
  9. Italy Travel Guide?
  10. Restroom?
  11. Those tremendous mountains : the story of the Lewis and Clark expedition / David Freeman Hawke.
  12. Ancient Rome?
  13. Science?
  14. Did you see that man?
  15. Check out?
  16. Did you see my brothers?

Thursday, July 20, 2006

Book selected for September project

Lipstick Jihad : a memoir of growing up Iranian in America and American in Iran by Azadeh Moaveni. People in attendance: 6

Thurs. July 20

Questions:
  1. Where do I print out?
  2. Scrap paper?
  3. Ink Pen?
  4. Plan B : further thoughts on faith / Lamott, Anne.
  5. Prague Travel Guides?
  6. Croatia Travel Guides?

Wednesday, July 19, 2006

Top 3 NEW sites I can't live without

3. Flickr - Great way to share, store, or back up your photos!

2. Bloglines - All the Blogs you read in one place, ready for you to read

1. del.icio.us - A web based bookmarking site that allows you to Tag your sites and bundle these Tags. Super easy and useful.

Wed. July 19

Questions:
  1. Where is my book on hold?
  2. Dark horse : the surprise election and political murder of President James A. Garfield / Kenneth D. Ackerman. (Hold)
  3. Restrooms?
  4. Biographical information on James J Krebs?
  5. Anne Boylen's ladies in waiting?
  6. Rocky mountain Travel Guide?
  7. Washington DC History?
  8. Where are the DVD's?
  9. What edition is your "Autobiography" by Madame Guyon? (1917)
  10. What books do you have written by Herbert Gold?
  11. Magic will by Herbert Gold?
  12. How do I browse your books on Haiti?
  13. What are your hours?
  14. Fact book on the Presidents?
  15. How do I sign up to use the computer?
  16. Can I get a copy of the constitution?
  17. Where is Sociology?
  18. Where is the Children's Room?
  19. Do you know where the Popular Library is?

Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Tue. July 18

Questions:
  1. Book Club book?
  2. Fact book about the Presidents?
  3. A Small Piece of me?
  4. Perfect Gift by Larry ...?
  5. Are you Hispanic? (Native-American? American? ... [this goes on for a while folks])
  6. Books on Martin Luther King Jr.?
  7. Do you still have the incident report from last week?
  8. Book Club book?
  9. Color of water?
  10. Assassins gate? (Hold FGR to CPK)
  11. Color of Water by McBride

Monday, July 17, 2006

Mon. July 17

Questions:
  1. Picasso : Pablo Ruiz Picasso : a biography / by Patrick O'Brian. (Hold NPR)
  2. What is "All the World' s a Stage Book Club"?
  3. Tuesdays with Morrie : an old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson / Mitch Albom (missing)
  4. Where is the queue computer?
  5. Pencil Sharpener?
  6. Is this the Georgetown Library?
  7. History of immigration in the United States? (973.04, and SOC 325.73)
  8. Puerto Rico History?
  9. Hawaii History?
  10. Restroom?
  11. Catalog?
  12. They came before Columbus / Ivan Van Sertima. (Hold PLK)
  13. History? I need guns! (355 SOC & 623.4 TECH term 'firearms')
  14. Another copy of Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass?

Friday, July 14, 2006

Fri. July 14

Questions:

  1. Let me finish / Roger Angell.
  2. Left hand, right hand! / Sitwell, Osbert (Hold PAL)
  3. Foner, Eric. Title :245 10 Free soil, free labor, free men: the ideology of the Republican
    Party before the Civil War. (no copies, SOC)
  4. Finland Travel Guide?
  5. Copy of the constitution?
  6. The wild Colorado : the true adventures of Fred Dellenbaugh, age 17, on the second Powell
    Expedition into the Grand Canyon / Richard Maurer. (Hold MLK)
  7. Campground travel guides.
  8. Biographical information on the inventor of the Tommy gun? (Full name: John Taliaferro Thompson)
  9. 320 section?
  10. Half slave and half free : the roots of Civil War / Bruce Levine (hold)
  11. Laura Branigan information?

Thursday, July 13, 2006

Thurs. July 13

Questions:

  1. I bet no one has checked these books out in 20 years, can I have them?
  2. Selected letters of Edmund Burke edited and with an introduction by Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr. (missing, but can I interest you in a nine volume set of his correspondence? ... I can?
  3. Can I check out all nine volumes of a set?
  4. I have the title but not the author, can you find "Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass"?
  5. People magazine?
  6. I, Rigoberta Menchœ : an Indian woman in Guatemala / edited and
    introduced by Elisabeth Burgos-Debray ; translated by Ann Wright (CPK hold)
  7. History and culture of Haiti
  8. A community of many worlds : Arab Americans in New York City (missing)
  9. People magazine?

Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Wed. July 12

Questions:


  1. Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corp?
  2. Washington / by Constance McLaughlin Green? (missing)
  3. Advise and consent / Drury, Allen (hold placed)
  4. Everyday life in early America / Hawke, David Freeman. (hold placed)
  5. 910 section?
  6. Larry Csonka's birthday?
  7. What years did Larry Csonka play for the Dolphins?

Tuesday, July 11, 2006

Tue. July 11

Questions:

  1. Pharos is down?
  2. Do you want our second copy of a Biography? (the answer is always yes!)
  3. 92 F831L, Benjamin Franklin : an American life please. (Are you sure? L is MON CHER PAPA: Frankin and the Ladies of Paris by Lopez. I think you need the Walter Isaacson. Hold for CPK)
  4. Book on hold for me?
  5. American Indians, American justice / Deloria, Vine.

Monday, July 10, 2006

Mon. July 10

Questions:

  1. The one percent doctrine : deep inside America's pursuit of its enemies since 9/11 / Ron Suskind. (hold placed)
  2. Breaking the spell : religion as a natural phenomenon / Daniel C. Dennett. (Hold CPK)
  3. Global warming : the science of climate change / Frances Drake. (Hold placed)
  4. Can I search for books online?
  5. Can I renew books online?
  6. It's asking for a PIN, I don't have a PIN, do I?
  7. Total impact : straight talk from football's hardest hitter / Ronnie Lott with Jill Lieber (missing)
  8. I need a state map to locate vacation spots, for my GED?
  9. Did you know there is a pancake race in Onley?
  10. Books on CD?
  11. Paper clip?
  12. I'm here to pick up three books under the name of Rubin? (Nope, how about another name?)
  13. The Jewish State: A Century Later by Dowty, Alan (request to purchase)
  14. Maps of Hati

Saturday, July 08, 2006

Top 5 things I learned at ALA 2006 Conference

5. Scanning the future ... the OCLC Report on the Perception of the Library (it's 290 pages)

4. Three words: Millennials, Millennials, Millennials

3. Less is more.

2. Google and del.icio.us ROCK!

1. Read the Blog, be the Blog.

Sat. July 8

Questions:


  1. Looking for a school textbook called "History and Government of DC"?
  2. Do I check out here?
  3. Sundiata: an epic of old Mali [by] D. T. Niane. Translated by G.D. Pickett (missing)
  4. Testament : a soldier's story of the Civil War / Benson Bobrick
  5. Night by Wiesel
  6. Pen?
  7. Tim Gautreaux bio information?
  8. Picture of a Roman Soldier?
  9. Scratch paper?
  10. Ink pen?
  11. Biography Section?
  12. Books set in Cape Cod?
  13. I know you've got the sequel to this book back there, the other lady told me that two months ago. Can I see it?
  14. Possible side effects? Well, the library seems to cause drowsiness and and increased appetite, or the book by Augusten Burroughs? (Hold placed)
  15. I'm looking for a book called "Three Sisters" about Trotsky, the Russian Revolution, and the name Goldenberg, first name Gregori is in it. Do you have it?
  16. Scratch Paper and Pen?
  17. 616 section?
  18. West with the night by Beryl Markham, is that a Biography or History? (none of the above, it's ... Travel. Thanks for playing, tell her what's she's won just for playing Biography or History)

Thursday, July 06, 2006

Thurs. July 6

Questions:
  1. Do you work here? (For the right price)
  2. Maps of Hawaii?
  3. Atlas to check out?
  4. Color of Water by McBride?
  5. Political Science section?
  6. Restroom?

Wednesday, July 05, 2006

Wed. July 5

Questions:
  1. Books Aaliyah?
  2. Books on Tupac?
  3. Who is the publisher of this book?
  4. World Atlas?
  5. Is there a page near you? (Why? What are you not telling me? Do they bite?)
  6. Do you work here? (Yes, ... but Why??? Oh Yeah! They pay me! Just kidding, I really like my job)
  7. What was iceburg Tookie Williams name? (Stanley "Tookie" Williams, hold the iceberg!)
  8. Books about Emily Dickinson?
  9. Which booth do you check out at?
  10. How many books can you check out?
  11. Jay-z Books?

Tuesday, July 04, 2006

July Reads

Unshelved, What Would Dewey Do?, and Book Club
by Bill Barnes and Gene Ambaum
Three volumes of a online cartoon strip called Unshelved a very funny and surprisingly accurate view on Public Library life.

The Vampire in Legend and Fact by Basil Cooper
Little heavy on the Britsh and Scottish.

In Search of Dracula: The History of Dracula and Vampires (Revised edition) by Raymond T. McNally and Radu Florescu
After the Vampire tour in New Orleans I needed a little more information, and this is a even handed accout of some murky history.

Ask Your Angels by Alma Daniel, Timothy Wyllie, and Andrew Ramer
Needed 'light' reading after all the Vampires

Rampart Street (Valentin St. Cyr Mysteries) by David Fulmer
Third in this mystery series. New Orleans, Jass, murder, what more could you ask for?

Monday, July 03, 2006

Mon. July 3

I'm Back from New Orleans!

Questions:
  1. Wi-fi locations?
  2. Restroom?
  3. Slavery (306.362)?
  4. Civil war (973.7)?
  5. Michael Crowder?
  6. CD's?
  7. History of Rap?
  8. The way of a boy : a memoir of Java / Ernest Hillen. (WEE)
  9. Homespun heroines and other women of distinction / compiled and edited by Hallie Q. Brown ; foreword by Josephine Turpin Washington.
  10. 820 section?
  11. 822 section?
  12. African American Women Educators?
  13. Jean Harlow?
  14. Fannie Lou Hamer?
  15. Basilica : the splendor and the scandal--building St. Peter's / R.A. Scotti. (ART, not in yet)
  16. CD's?

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

Wednesday, May 31, 2006

June Link of the Month - 200th Post!

Link of the Month : OAIster http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/o/oaister/

Looking for something like "An account of the manners and customs of the Aborigines and the state of their relations with Europeans" by Edward John Eyre? or his "Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1"? Try OAIster!

OAIster is a project of the University of Michigan Digital Library Production Service, whose goal is "to create a collection of freely available, previously difficult-to-access, academically-oriented digital resources". The collection at the present time contains 7,328,353 records from 634 institutions worldwide. These digital records include items such as electronic books, online journals, audio files, images, movies, and reference texts. OAIster has an easy to use search interface that allows you to search its records by keyword, author, title, or by language. You can also choose to limit your search to text, audio, video, image or dataset, as well as how the results are sorted. On the left hand side of the results page the institutions from where the records are retrieved are listed. One could spend a lot of time at this site just looking at the unique resources OAIster has collected.

Wed. May 31

Questions:

  1. Scissors?
  2. Who's Who in America?
  3. Pen?
  4. Another pen?
  5. Help with copying map?
  6. Washington at home : an illustrated history of neighborhoods in the Nation's
    Capital / Kathryn Schneider Smith, editor. (missing, must ask B the amazing finder of lost books)
  7. Duke Ellington?

Actions:

  • Smithsonian lecture on Syrian Desert Cities

Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Tues. May 30

Questions:
  1. Edward R. Murrow and the birth of broadcast journalism / Edwards, Bob
  2. A taste of power : a Black woman's story / Brown, Elaine
  3. Copy machine?
  4. Business Law?
  5. Audio Books?
  6. Western Civilization?

Saturday, May 27, 2006

Sat. May 27

Questions:

  1. Samuel Champlain
  2. Business division
  3. Cereal Killer McKevett, G. A.
  4. Sign up issues
  5. Man for himself by Fromm
  6. Audio Books?
  7. Check out?
  8. Library Card?
  9. Sports Illustrated?
  10. Post?
  11. Cobra 2 (marked missing)
  12. Reflecting black : African-American cultural criticism / Michael Eric Dyson
  13. South Dakota history
  14. Indians in South Dakota
  15. 92 k section?
  16. Cleopatra?
  17. Ancient Egypt?
  18. West with the night?
  19. Where are the graphic novels?
  20. Copy machine?
  21. Check out?
  22. Thesaurus?
  23. Pyramids?
  24. South Africa Travel guide?
  25. Southern Africa Travel guide?

Friday, May 26, 2006

Fri. May 26

Lead Workshop on Blogs

Thursday, May 25, 2006

Thurs. May 25

Questions:
  1. Sailing alone around the world / Slocum, Joshua
  2. Check out here?
  3. I don't have my library card, can I still check out?
  4. Baltimore Travel Guide?
  5. Chuck Brown?
  6. Scissors?

Wednesday, May 24, 2006

Wed. May 24

Questions:
  1. Mexican leader?
  2. Frieda Kahlo?
  3. Check out books here?
  4. Epidemics, vaccines?
  5. Polio?
  6. Check out books here?
  7. Stonewall riots?
  8. Book Club Book?

Actions:

  • Incident eating in the library

Tuesday, May 23, 2006

Tues. May 23

Questions:
  1. 330 Ref
  2. Black Indian relations (306.7, Black Indians 970.0049 K19)
  3. Scissors?
  4. Industrial Revolution. Almanac / James L. Outman?
  5. Where Do I put the change in for the copier?

Monday, May 22, 2006

Mon. May 22

Questions:

  1. Robert Byrd: Child Of The Appalachian Coalfields?
  2. Black men's thinking in France?
  3. 920 section?
  4. Computer sign up?
  5. Is that time correct?
  6. Dominican Republic Travel guide?
  7. Night
  8. Baltimore 1861
  9. John Ringling? (full name John Ringing North)

Actions:

Book Club May Book details 6 in attendance

Saturday, May 20, 2006

Sat. May 20

At the Book Expo still!

Stopped for talk on Libraries and communities and Authors@yourLibrary.

Ouch, hurt so much from yesterday
... Must continue
....Must get books

Friday, May 19, 2006

Fri. May 19

Book Expo!

Lots of books, authors and free stuff!

Thursday, May 18, 2006

Thurs. May 18

Questions:
  1. History of Ivory Coast?
  2. Sterling Brown?
  3. Magnifying glass?
  4. Into the wild / Krakauer, Jon
  5. West Africa Travel Guide?
  6. From the heart / Cash, June Carter (CPK)

Wednesday, May 17, 2006

Wed. May 17

Questions:
  1. Selena Quintanilla? (known only as Selena)
  2. Sign up computer?
  3. Duke Ellington?
  4. Where would 92 e be?
  5. Check out here?
  6. Is there a class upstairs with you?
  7. From plantation to ghetto / by August Meier and Elliott Rudwick
  8. Korea / by Jill Dubois

Tuesday, May 16, 2006

Tue. May 16

Questions:

  1. Art Division?
  2. South Africa History
  3. 925 section?
  4. I am Iman / Iman (order?)
  5. Where's the Librarian in Charge Schedule?
  6. Where is the sign up computer?