Emily's Musings

Refgrunt, 11/10

A long day, 5 hours A, 1 hour J, not helped by the fact that I was definitely under the weather (and it was pouring rain, so the actual weather wasn't helping any). Here are some of the questions/requests:

address in Berlin for Konigliche Porzellan Manufacktur
typewriter
how to log out
9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions
where to pay a SJ parking ticket if you've lost the ticket
Shogun in a version bigger than a paperback
whiteout (for the typewriter guy)
filmn by Victo Villa Senior?
Illicit: How smugglers, traffickers and copycats are hijacking the global economy
Hoop Dreams
Who's Pushing Your Buttons
Boundaries: When to Say Yes, When to Say No to Take Control of Your Life
baby names
help using Internet
Fried Green Tomatoes
rabbits (as pets)
Blue Highway (Diane Tullson)
headphones
printing problem
copy machine
Ferrari: The Man and his Machines
And the Earth Did Not Devour Him (found in the complete works of Tomas Rivera)
mouse stopped responding
obesity and children guidelines
help with email address error
Magic School Bus
Scary Stories
citizenship interview videos
Always Runing: la vida loca, gang days in LA
magazine and news articles on jevenile delinguency

and we had a long discussion with a guy about filters in the library. It's interesting, the question of filters or porn or whatever often comes up in interview questions and things, so I was all ready to talk about respecting people's right to access materials as long as they're not showing them to other people (and this library has very effective privacy screens which help), etc. I was not prepared to answer questions about what exactly is filtered (I didn't even know the name of the vendor we get our filtering software from -- I learned later it is Sonicwall) and to deal with the questions from the perspective of someone who wanted more filtering and basically was bemoaning the decline of civilization in general. He wanted to know what we were filtering and why we weren't going around telling people they shouldn't be looking at those bad things (or something like that, it was hard to figure out his point at times, there was a whole thread about letting underage kids into R rated movies...)