I just found out from security that it was indeed an art history department function--
Michio Hayashi, Professor, Hisory of Art, Sophia University, Tokyo
Other Orbits in Gutai: Akira Kanayama and Atsuko Tanaka
308J Doe Library, 5:15 pm--
and (not) a pack of dangerous alcoholics. The question of whether they attacked a homeless woman is still up in the air.
Also, there is a sparrow flying around somewhere in the reference rooms. I bet it is bored.
Friday, February 29, 2008
QA276.15.P671 1986
It's thirteen minutes into my shift at the desk and I have already had three encounters.
While first sitting at the desk, I glanced up to see one of my least favourite Berkeley homeless (differently privileged?) people walk by. When I worked at Peet's, he would come into the store when were busy and stick his whole hand in the tip jar and just take everything out. We weren't getting many tips anyway at that store, so it really sucked when the little we would get disappeared. The staff there would grab the tip jars when we saw him coming and stash them under the counter until he had gone. They called him "Fashionista"--he dresses like a hipster and until you get close, the only thing that gives him away is the shoes that are often ten sizes too small, much like the Grinch's heart (and my own, for those more charitable peoplethat may read this).
One perfectly normal gent was having difficulty finding a book
(Title The rise of statistical thinking, 1820-1900
Author Porter, Theodore M., 1953-
Place/Publisher Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press,
Date 1986.
Description xii, 333 p. ; 25 cm.
Location(s): Main Stack QA276.15.P671 1986)
and when I searched Pathfinder with the call number the book didn't appear, but did when I entered the title, which is odd.
While helping this gent some woman came up to the desk, the type who you can't tell if they are a crazy homeless person or a crazy professor, and told me to immediately call security to room 308 (there are rooms 308A-J, by the way) to remove a pack of dangerous alcoholics, who she claimed had attacked her. I couldn't see her eyes behind her giant reflective clip-on sunglass lenses to tell if she was lying, but something told me she might just the the homeless version of crazy. Also, I had suspicions maybe she had walked into either a. a group of art history grad students and professors getting down and dirty or b. the men's restroom. I called security just in case. I kind of want to know what happened with that. I kind of hope there is a pack of dangerous alcoholics hiding in a seminar room attacking passers-by.
Also, I found a copy of Barthes' Camera Lucida belonging to the Main stacks in the NRR, in the original French. Oddly enough, in French the title is not Camera Lucida, but La chambre claire. It is past due and I think I know where the security tag is. Hmmmm...
Title La chambre claire : note sur la photographie
Author Barthes, Roland.
Place/Publisher [Paris : Cahiers du cinema,
Date c1980
Description 192 p., [1 leaf of plates : ill. ; 22 cm
Location(s): Main Stack TR642.B37 On 1 day reserve; at Grad Svcs
RECALLED; DUE: 02/23/08
Damnit! It's on reserve in Grad Services. I'll return itttt...
While first sitting at the desk, I glanced up to see one of my least favourite Berkeley homeless (differently privileged?) people walk by. When I worked at Peet's, he would come into the store when were busy and stick his whole hand in the tip jar and just take everything out. We weren't getting many tips anyway at that store, so it really sucked when the little we would get disappeared. The staff there would grab the tip jars when we saw him coming and stash them under the counter until he had gone. They called him "Fashionista"--he dresses like a hipster and until you get close, the only thing that gives him away is the shoes that are often ten sizes too small, much like the Grinch's heart (and my own, for those more charitable peoplethat may read this).
One perfectly normal gent was having difficulty finding a book
(Title The rise of statistical thinking, 1820-1900
Author Porter, Theodore M., 1953-
Place/Publisher Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press,
Date 1986.
Description xii, 333 p. ; 25 cm.
Location(s): Main Stack QA276.15.P671 1986)
and when I searched Pathfinder with the call number the book didn't appear, but did when I entered the title, which is odd.
While helping this gent some woman came up to the desk, the type who you can't tell if they are a crazy homeless person or a crazy professor, and told me to immediately call security to room 308 (there are rooms 308A-J, by the way) to remove a pack of dangerous alcoholics, who she claimed had attacked her. I couldn't see her eyes behind her giant reflective clip-on sunglass lenses to tell if she was lying, but something told me she might just the the homeless version of crazy. Also, I had suspicions maybe she had walked into either a. a group of art history grad students and professors getting down and dirty or b. the men's restroom. I called security just in case. I kind of want to know what happened with that. I kind of hope there is a pack of dangerous alcoholics hiding in a seminar room attacking passers-by.
Also, I found a copy of Barthes' Camera Lucida belonging to the Main stacks in the NRR, in the original French. Oddly enough, in French the title is not Camera Lucida, but La chambre claire. It is past due and I think I know where the security tag is. Hmmmm...
Title La chambre claire : note sur la photographie
Author Barthes, Roland.
Place/Publisher [Paris : Cahiers du cinema,
Date c1980
Description 192 p., [1 leaf of plates : ill. ; 22 cm
Location(s): Main Stack TR642.B37 On 1 day reserve; at Grad Svcs
RECALLED; DUE: 02/23/08
Damnit! It's on reserve in Grad Services. I'll return itttt...
Friday, February 1, 2008
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