LIBRARY NOTES
Mark Piel
Shelf Talk
Sunday, January 1, 1995
Our monthly Book List is only a partial sampling of titles added each month. For a complete listing (apart from that in the card catalog), please ask at the Circulation Desk for our notebook which gives all titles catalogued, not just those newly received. This listing is sorted by call number. For a desired title, please consult the new card catalog (between the windows in the Reference Room). If the card has a green overlay, it is probably a reserve book; for these titles, inquire at the Circulation Desk. For cards without green overlays, you may go directly to the stacks.
Inventory is continuing on schedule; stack 5 (fiction A-J) is complete. Types of problems that the staff has remedied include books found on the shelf but which lack cards in the catalogs, mislabeled books (and therefore misshelved books), and missing books. The number of problems has varied from subject to subject. In stacks 11 and 12 (bibliography, psychology, philosophy, the arts) about one in every ten books required attention, while in stacks 1 and 2 (history and travel) the ration was only 1 in 17. The next stack to be inventoried is stack 3 (religion, sociology, economics, natural sciences and philosophy). It is tentatively scheduled to reopen in the beginning of April. Members desiring books in a stack closed for inventory should request assistance at the desk.
Left anything in the Library? A gold bracelet, walkman, earring (only one), pen, scarves and gloves, both sun and prescription glasses and their cases? Please come to the Circulation Desk to claim what is yours.
Building renovations: Four new ceiling fixtures with both "up and down" illumination have been hung in the Reference Room, as well as the floor refinished there. Additionally, three restrooms and the staff room have been repainted.
Book donations: Thank you to the members who donated three of the titles sought in the last issue. Here are some additional titles we need donated:
Confidence and Partial Portraits (Henry James);
Talleyrand (Madelin);
Complete Short Stories (De Maupasssant) in English;
American Revolution (Edmund Morgan);
A Hundred Years of Philosophy (Passmore);
Wide Margins (George Putnam);
Antonia and Last Aldini (George Sand) in English;
Diary (Gideon Welles)
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