Sat. May 13

Questions:

1. Lonely Planet Italy Travel guide
2. Estes Kefauver, a biography / Fontenay, Charles L. (pick up)
3. Pin-up : the tragedy of Betty Grable / by Spero Pastos. (pick up)
4. How do you sign in to use the computer?
5. Pictures of DC from 4 years ago?
6. Nicaragua recent history?
7. How do you photocopy?
8. Mississippi slaves in Liberia?
9. Sport's illustrated?
10. How do you sign in to use the computer?
11. How do you sign in to use the computer?
12. Do you have my book I put on hold?
13. A book with Alfred Russel Wallace's handwriting in it? (pick up)

Thurs. May 11

Questions:

1. Lies my teacher told me : everything your American history textbook got wrong / James W. Loewen.
2. Restroom?
3. Children's room?
4. Tete-ˆ-tete : Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre / Rowley, Hazel.
5. A death in Belmont / Junger, Sebastian

Actions:

• Staff day meeting
• Delivered Flyers

Wed. May 10

Questions:

1. Year of magical thinking by Didion
2. Country information?
3. Restroom?
4. Is this the printer where the jobs come out?
5. History of DC books that you can check out?

Tues. May 9

Questions:

1. January issue of National Geographic?
2. Now it's my turn: a political memoir / Cheney, Mary
3. Where is the BCC on Outlook?
4. Do you have a Tissue?
5. Do I need a library card?
6. How many books can I check out?
7. Where is the card catalog?
8. DVD's?
9. Is the AV section closed?
10. Lee Marvin Biography?
11. Running with scissors : a memoir / Burroughs, Augusten?
12. Amaniyea Payne?
13. Elizabethan Hair styles?
14. Holocaust?
15. Warsaw revolt?
16. Britian and Italy Travel Guide?

Mon. May 8

Questions:

1. Restroom?
2. Wild Swans by Chang

Actions:

• Staff day meeting
• Washington Neighborhood book list created

Fri. May 5

Questions:

1. Biographies of people who credit reading with their success?
2. Migrations of the Heart / Marita Golden (Pick-up)
3. Geneva?
4. German language books?
5. Two Fax calls beeping in my ear
6. Thailand history?
7. Where are your computers?
8. How do I sign up?
9. How do I sign up?
10. Human rights?

behavioral problems:

• Sleeping in chair with feet on stool in corner of room, by window near Haskins file. Medium build, striped shirt (beige and cream) dark tan pants, work boots. Asked twice, called security, left while on phone.

Thurs. May 4

Questions:

1. Where was Horace Mann born?
2. Indian Tribes in Maryland
3. Is your Sign up working?
4. Restroom?
5. James Lovelock?
6. Book Club Book for July?
7. Foreign Affairs?

Wed. May 3

Questions:

1. Reconstruction Era?
2. Dry / Augusten Burroughs? (missing)
3. Dirty Blonde?
4. Silurian time period?
5. China Inc?
6. Enquiries concerning human understanding and concerning the principles of morals / by David Hume (Phil)
7. Voices of a people's history of the United States / Howard Zinn,
8. History of gas prices (e-mail question)
9. Historical dictionary of Morocco

Actions:

• SWW Visit 15 students (Intro to reference sources)

Tues. May 2

Questions:

1. Ralph Bunche: A life
2. Where can I buy the busts that are in the room?
3. Where do I check out?
4. Star home directory?
5. Photocopier?
6. Columbia Travel guide (none, order!)
7. MLK book
8. Black Death
9. Baroque period
10. Renew video?
11. Order China magazine?
12. DVD's?

Mon. May. 1

Questions:

1. Chinese New Year?
2. Magnifying glass?
3. Prince among Slaves?
4. Brazilian Music?

May Link of the Month

Link of the Month: Clusty (http://clusty.com/)

Clusty is a meta-search engine, which searches Looksmart, Lycos, MSN, Open Directory, Teoma (now merged with Ask.com), Gigablast, and Wisenut. Clusty then 'clusters' these results into related groups. For example, if you typed in a topic like "New Orleans", It displays the Top 224 results of the 17,893,225 sites from the different search engines. On the left hand side you can see how Clusty has divided all the sites in to groups like "Louisiana" "Hurricane" "Hotels" "Music" "Pictures", and beside each cluster is the number of sites in the group. There are also tabs at the top that allow you to search by Images, News, Blogs, Wikipedia, or even Jobs. These different tabs search other sources, for example News will search such sources as Yahoo News!, AP, CNN, and Reuters. True, Clusty may never replace Google, but it has found things (for me at least) that Google missed, and maybe worth a look.

Happy Searching!

Links

New Orleans
http://www.nola.com/
http://www.neworleansonline.com/
http://www.neworleans.com/

Reference Sites
Calendar http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/
School Search http://dcschoolsearch.dc.gov/schools/index.asp

Geography Sites
50 States info: http://www.50states.com/

Blogs
Feel-good Librarian http://feelgoodlibrarian.typepad.com/Tame The Web: Libraries and Technology http://www.tametheweb.com/
Betsy's Picks http://betsyspicks.blogspot.com/
Gallery Place Living http://gpliving.blogspot.com/

Book Sites
Free Classic Books Onlinehttp://classicreader.com
Project Gutenberghttp://www.gutenberg.org/

Personal Sites
Mehendi World http://www.mehendiworld.com/
Spanish: http://www.studyspanish.com/
Free Online Cards: http://www.123greetings.com/
MS Clip Art http://office.microsoft.com/clipart/default.aspx?lc=en-us
Simpson's archive http://www.snpp.com/

Sat. Apr. 29

Question:

1. Sign in computer?
2. Restroom?
3. Book by Bill Bradlee?
4. Pencil with eraser?
5. Children's Room?
6. Is the computer down?
7. Books on Hitler's finances?
8. Pencil with eraser?

Fri. Apr. 28

• Smithsonian lecture on Pompeii
• Staff day meeting

Thurs. Apr. 27

Questions:

1. 260 section?
2. How do you eject a USB drive?
3. Vibe Magazine?
4. Hugo Wolf biography?
5. Abbey Hoffman book?
6. Who was Tookie Williams?
7. What kind of name is Tyron?

Wed. Apr. 26

Actions:

• At School without Walls - Presented History-Biography division
• Staff Talk with JH

Tues. Apr. 25

Questions:

1. Germany Travel Guide?
2. Belgium Travel Guide?
3. Did Simon Wiesenthal write a book called murders among us?
4. Chaucer's England?
5. FAX machine?
6. Law Books?
7. Bill of Rights?
8. What is half of 2.4 percent of 19,250?
9. Where is the 'general' collection?
10. Who is our House of Representative?
11. France Travel Guide?
12. Spain Travel Guide?
13. Belgium Travel Guide?

Mon. Apr. 24

Questions:

1. New Orleans 1920-1930?
2. Presidential scandals?
3. Africa Travel Books?
4. Marvin Gaye?
5. Copier help?

Actions:

• Visit to Embassy of Uruguay

Sat. Apr. 22

Questions:

1. Sign up computer?
2. Magnifying glass?
3. Guests of the Kremlin (missing, $300-650 to replace)
4. How do I use the sign in computer?
5. Morocco Travel guides?
6. Copy machine assistance?
7. How long do I have to wait for the compuer?
8. Queue station not working?
9. Last three Washington Posts?
10. What day does the Personals come out?
11. Is the copier working?
12. USB port?
13. How do I sign up?
14. Books on CD?
15. New York Times Bestseller list?
16. Washington Post Bestseller list?
17. In Style Magazine?
18. Washingtonian Magazine?
19. Do you still carry Futurist Magazine?
20. DVD's?
21. Art books on Da Vinci?
22. Pencil?
23. Books on Icons?
24. Are these the only CD's you have?
25. Where is the book 'ibid' that's listed in this citation?

Thurs. Apr. 20

Questions:

1. Washington Post?
2. Fall on your knees by MacDonald (WAH)
3. Vogue?
4. Harper bazaar?
5. Cruising paradise : tales / Shepard, Sam (Pick-Up)
6. Lost in the city : stories / Jones, Edward P. (missing)
7. Books by Georgette Heyer?
8. How do I get a library card?
9. Yesterday's Washington Post?
10. Washington Post?
11. Dress your family in corduroy and denim / Sedaris, David (LIT)
12. Crusades : the illustrated history 909.07 C957
13. African Americans : opposing viewpoints
14. Africanisms in American culture / edited by Joseph E. Holloway