Emily's Musings

Refgrunt, 3/20

Busy Sunday afternoon on the reference desks (4 A, 2 J)

Some of the questions:

Bud, Not Buddy
last week's Mercury News
books about gardening in California
Nat King Cole
FireArms by Winchester
bluebook
lost computer file (note to self to email mgmt about signs reminding people that files saved to the hard drive will be erased when the computer restarts)
Japanese Internment
Within the Context of No Context
Microsoft Excel 2003
Antartica
Little Prince in Spanish
Hardy Boys v. 86
Hawk Moon
Ella Fitzgerald
puppy training
today's NY Times
computer paper (x12)
tango music cd
flood map of the town
Diary of Anne Frank on tape
literary criticism of Sherwood Anderson
CD w/ I Know Him So Well (from the musical Chess) but not on the Chess soundtrack (Whitney Houston covered it)
Zeffirelli's Romeo & Juliet soundtrack
Shakespeare in Love educational guide
short story anthologies
check on hold status (x2)
phone number for a neighboring library
videos by Stephen Quillen
Shrek
article from Science magazine about robots walking
The Lion Sleeps Tonight song on a cd
cursive handwriting instruction
science fair experiments about cleaning glass
complaint that the number of holds before being charged should be raised to 5 (currently 3 and then its $1 each) (note to self to pass the comment along)
and two of the librarians signed up to help table for the campaign at the farmers' market