In the Morning:

Dental journals.
A politician visits.
Nervous conditions, by Tsitsi Dangarembga.
Divine attention, by Paulette Roeske.
The haunting of Hill House, by Shirley Jackson.
Much interest in the politician.
1991 Nissan Stanza repair manual.
Dictionary.
Holds are picked up at that other desk, Sir.
"Magazines?"
Printer server crash.
Book club signup.
Guinness book of world records.
Resume books.
Who's who among American high school students.
Pencil.
Resumes for dummies, by Joyce Lain Kennedy.
Stapler.
Stapler.
Today's paper, which was in the hands of another patron.

(My notes for the afternoon are missing)

Internet Signups: 18

In the Morning:

Weight Watchers "points."
Printer Advice.
New King James study bible.
Book suggestion: Be careful what you s.l.a.p.p.
Public relations: the profession and the practice, by Otis W. Baskin and Craig E. Aronoff.
Printer advice.
Books on Adobe Photo Deluxe.
"Sixth sense books, and I think it's called metaphysics."
SAT writing practice book.
PDR.
Computer workshop question.
"Any books on (I didn't quite get it) Acupas (Acappas?), kind of a witch, on Scooby-Doo?"
English for russian speakers.
Lake House, by James Patterson.
Light in Shadow, by Jayne Anne Krentz.
The Da Vinci code, by Dan Brown.
"Any job openings?"

In the Afternoon:

Microfilm reader help.
"Medical terminology."
NADA.
"Do you send faxes here?"
She wanted me to list our entire computer class schedule, day by day, over the phone. I'm mailing her a schedule instead.
"Where are the mysteries, you know, the fun books?" Later she came back and asked for books about serial killers.
Sign language books.
Printer advice.
Dictionary.
Consumer reports: Camcorders.
"Fax machine?" When I said a place next door would fax for a dollar, she got upset.
Phone book.
Bruce Lee books.
Another fax machine request.
Children's books.

Internet Signups: 36

In the Afternoon:

A salesman. I hate salesmen.
Used car rating books.
Newspaper.
Printer advice.
Newspaper.
Legal notice in a newspaper we didn't have.
Reading club signup.
Yesterday's papers.
Reading club signup.
"Math tutors?"
Newspaper.
GED books.
Best's insurance guide. I wish the patron would quit drumming his fingers ...
Year of wonders, by Geraldine Brooks.
Two more book signups.
A word processor won't print, and the floppy drive isn't working.
Classified ads.

In the Evening:

Lake house, by James Patterson.
"Any job openings?"
You're too young to use the Internet stations.
Parenting books.
Newspaper.
Printing advice.
Blood is not enough: 17 stories of vamprism, ed by Ellen Datlow.
Spanish dictionaries.
Microfilm advice.
Printer advice.
"Books on careers in business."
"Books on J-Lo."
The Pagan book of living and dying, by Starhawk, M. Macha NightMare, and the Reclaiming Collective.
Tax assessments.
Printer advice.
Don't run!
The printer just doesn't seem to like that patron.
The March Consumer reports is missing.
Printer advice.
Printer advice.
I reset the online catalog.
"Any job openings?"
"Is that a printer?" (Actually, this was a good question)
Self esteem videos for teens.
He wanted a list of performers at a male strip club for the rest of the month, over the phone.
La Medicina natural al alcance de todos, by Manuel Lazaeta Acheran.

Internet signups: 30

In the Morning:

Don't run! (This to a staff member)
Newspaper.
Book club signup.
Book club signup.
Newspaper.
Interlibrary loan followup.
Classified ads.
Interlibrary loan followup.
Printing advice.
More Microsoft Works hassles.
Article from the June 9 Fortune.
Computer crash.
Computer crash.
Computer crash.
How to copy a floppy.
Family development: empowering families to move out of poverty, by Arlene McAtee.

In the Afternoon:

Computer crash (mine).
Yearbooks.
Book club signup.
Books by Suzanne Brockman, and an online catalog demonstration.
Children scream. A woman rolls her eyes. "Yes, they are mine."
FAFSA forms.
American Life, by Madonna.
Internet workshop schedule request.
Scissors.
The rights of desire, by Andre Philippus Brink.
Spanish grammar books.
A patron and I are discussing the graphic novel series The Preacher. A second patron chimes in. It becomes a theological debate.
Mosby's textbook for nursing assistants, 2000 edition, by Sheila Sorrentino.
Ryan White Act subcommittee testimony.
A patron asks about a hold. She has the wrong library.
Stapler.

Internet Signups: 36

In the Morning:

Printer Advice.
Computer Crash.
"Someone is using my Hotmail account."
"I can't find 248."
Computer Crash.
Bathroom.
Internet advice.
FAFSA forms online.
Sorry, we don't have Microsoft Works here.
Festival signups.
Do we have Dun & Bradstreet?
Meeting room event clarification.
Everything crashes!
Twenty minutes later it comes back up, and I scramble to sign up the waiting throng.
James Patterson books.
We're out of FAFSA forms.
Salt, a world history, by Mark Kurlansky.
Here's a pet peeve of mine: A patron calls up and says "I'd like a book." Then they don't say anything more. I know they're waiting for me to say "Okey Dokey," or something, but I can't help them until I know what book they want.
Directions to our meeting room.
Microfilm advice.

In the Afternoon:

Newspapers.
How to spell "Journalism," "Political Science," and "Splendid."
Computer workshop information.
An old lady wants Second time around, by Mary Higgins Clark, Children of the storm, by Elizabeth Peters, and Back story, by Robert B. Parker.
"I'm trying to locate the place where my sister drowned."
Today's paper.
Floppies for purchase.
"Spelling books."
Harry Potter and the sorcerers stone, by J. K. Rowling, on tape.
Spanish for gringos, by William C. Harvey.
I had to track down Harry a second time.
Copier advice.
W-7 form.
Pit bull training.
Calligraphy.
We would have printed a document for a sight-impaired patron, but the document is blank.
Loving Donovan, by Bernice L. McFadden.

Internet Signups: 59