Friday, April 30, 2004

In the Morning:

Are you there alone? by Suzanne O'Malley.
Magazine articles online.
Type your barcode in ...
Type your barcode in ...
Pencil.
We can send faxes, sir, but not receive them for you.
State forms.
Reboot.
Real estate exam books.
Type your barcode in ...
He's never used the internet before and he's smiling at me.
Rigid frame bridge, by Arthur Hayden.
She's sight-impaired and would I like to do her medical research for her? Luckily it's just three names to look up.
Road maps of Germany.
Printer advice.
Drag the bar over and click on the X, sir.
Printer advice.
Phantom Legion, by Cameron Judd.
Zip code lookup.
Missing floppy does not turn up.
The pencil is returned to me like it is a sacred relic.

In the Afternoon:

Turn off that cell phone, sir.
Phone book.
Almanac.
Pencil.
Reboot.
Off the machine, kids.
Where can he buy GED books?
Consumer info for digital cameras.
"My computer's acting weird."
Just walk over and type your barcode ...
Today's paper.
Bathroom?
Printer advice.
Extensive printer advice. "That's okay, I'll do it another time."
Type your barcode in.
Fax.
Today's paper.
Papers for the last two weeks.
Papers for October.
"What time to you close?"
Cutting and pasting a resume.
Go over there and type your barcode ... no, go over there, where the computers are. Over there.
Books on cars.
Newspapers from October in Spanish.
Walk over there and type your barcode ...
Papers for April 17, 18.
Reboot.
Reboot.
Go over and type your barcode.
Can I help you? "No."
I don't know how to get to your chatroom, sir.
"Philosophy books." He narrows it down to Socrates.
She'll come back for more papers tomorrow, she says.
Reboot.
Restroom?
Four Dickens novels.

Thursday, April 29, 2004

In the Morning:

Printer advice.
Reboot.
Type your barcode there, sir.
Reboot.
Fax.
You need a library card ...
Stapler.
City directories 1960-1980. But the copier's busted.
Some sort of achievement center.
Reboot.
Another achievement center. No one's answering at the first one.
Reboot.
You need a library card ...
Bus schedules.
Police phone number.
You can't find those books on the shelf because you're using a different library's catalog, lady.
You need a library card. "Aren't these for the public?"
Reboot
State tax forms.
Don't run!
Tissue.

In the Afternoon:

Fax.
Reboot.
Shut up!
Math books. She has an alien baby.
Reboot. Another baby, but he just looks grumpy.
Grant writing.
Shut up!
Today's paper.
The other copy of today's paper.
More grant books.
Who's in charge of the meeting room schedule? I forget.
War and peace, by Leo Tolstoy.
A Wheel of time prequel, but not New spring.
He holds up a note: "Please help this patron find a Spanish literature book for a school paper."
Shut up!
You need a library card, lady. Quit pouting.
God I'm telling a lot of kids to shut up today.
Typing books.
Librarian R is stuck with a patron full of questions.
Sorry, sir, you're out of time.
Spanish instruction tapes and CD-ROMs.
Japan.
Car repair manuals, in general.
I don't know what the hell that little girl wanted.

Wednesday, April 28, 2004

In the Morning:

Printer advice.
King, warrior, magician, lover, by Robert Moore.
Printer advice.
That Bach tocatta as a cell phone ringer.
Quilting.
Don't run!
City directories.
Info on the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority.
More city directories.
Talk to circ, sir.
His ILL is messed up. He wanted a GED CD-ROM, not a book.
Ebony back issues.
You need a library card ...
Type your barcode there ...
Repeat.
Printer advice.
Scholarship books that she can check out.
Today's paper.
Bus schedule.
Something about maps. I wasn't paying attention.
That's a pdf form, ma'am. You can't fill it out online.
A services directory.
Reboot.
Copyright forms.
Books by David Bach.
Origin of the quote "'Tis a far, far better thing ..."

In the Afternoon:

Books about Myra Cohn livingston. "She's not American. She's from New England."
Does she want Baby Mama Drama, by Russell Bailey, or Baby Momma Drama, by Carl Weber? She has no idea. She'll take them both.
Just type your barcode in, ma'am.
Just type your barcode in, sir. Oh. Then you better talk with circ.
Do we have any lectures coming up on women and gender? She was just hoping ...
He gets offended that he needs a library card to use the computers now.
"You got any CDs of romantic orchestral?" They finally decide on Wagner. Heh heh.
Edna St. Vincent Millay.
Fax.
An adult starts an internet session and immediately leaves. A minute later a kid jumps on the machine.
Four giggling middleschoolers and one six year-old want volcano books.
Julia Alvarez.
Reboot.
WPs are over there, sir.
She looks asleep, but one finger is tapping.
Reboot.
I can't help you until I finish helping her, sir.
Reboot.
Of course you can use that online catalog, sir.
Local history. How many wards?
I get thanked for something. I forget what.
Lit crit on Frankenstein.
Down Syndrome and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Not together.
You need a library card, ma'am.
Stapler.
There's a working copier near the front door, sir.
Newspapers from 1998

Tuesday, April 27, 2004

In the Afternoon:

How to make curtains and pillows.
Stapler.
Her library barcode isn't in our system.
Another reboot, thanks to Adobe Acrobat.
A missing floppy is retrieved.
A runaway child is snatched up by the lapels.
Printer advice.
Computer workshop question.
Copier advice.
Archi-pages. I can't figure out if we own it or not ...
My bloody life, by Reymundo Sanchez. And "other books on gangs."
Sorry, sir, I don't think we ever carried "Chess life and review."
Sorry, our ILL person is gone for the day.
Newspapers from the beginning of the month.
He's can't find an option on some greeting card program he has and wants to bring it in to show us.
Printer advice.

In the Evening:

I sign up an out-of-stater for an internet terminal.
A cougar is loose (not in the library). Our security guy and I discuss.
"Is --- there?" Who? A ref librarian so new I haven't met her yet.
We're missing v. 2 of the Great books series. Or is it 2-3? We can't figure it out.
Tornadoes.
"You got any kind of tapes with different kinds of music on it?"
Printer advice.
Reboot, reboot.
Books by Zane.
Wall of pain, by David Thompson.
Books by Erik Jerome Dickey.
Debit card machine's over there.
Her machine's frozen. She has not saved the file to disc.
"Why do we only get two sessions?"
Sorry kid, you're too young.
Bathroom?
I register a patron to vote.
One of our regulars pulls up a chair and bores Techie X to death.
How to recharge her debit card.
Today's paper.
Try the kids section, kid.
Peoples and cultures of Africa, by Elliott P. Skinner.
"It won't print."
Techie X and I discuss roulette.