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| Tuesday, September 14, 2010 | [[A female patron sits at a computer. Dewey stands behind her]]
/ Female Patron: Your filter shouldn't block this website.
/ Dewey: How do you know? / Female Patron: I went there yesterday. It had cute puppies.
/ Dewey: If you already went there, why are you going back? / Female Patron: It had cute puppies!
/ Dewey:... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20100914 |
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| Filtering Wrong | Mel [[pointing downwards]]: Our internet filter is filtering *wrong!*
/ Dewey: It is a product of man. And man is imperfect. / [[Close-up of a computer screen; it's showing the "Pimp my Bookcart" website]]
/ Mel: Look. Here's an offensive website we *don't" filter. / [[Side view]]
/ Mel: Why doesn't it... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20100916 |
| Friday, September 17, 2010 | Cosmic
/ Frank Cottrell Boyce / Imagine you're 12 but are so BIG everyone thinkg you're an ADULT! / Cool! you could get into ANY MOVIE! / Liam wins a context and since everyone assumes he's a GROWN UP...
/ ...he ends up as the only "ADULT" in SPACE with a bunch of kids. / Wow! / Awesome! / But something... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20100917 |
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| Book Budgets | Woman: You can't cut the COOKBOOK budget!
/ Mel [[shelving]]: We're reexamining our ENTIRE collection. / [[Front view]]
/ Woman: I suggest history. Nothing new happening in the PAST!
/ Man: You need another way to overcook PASTA? / [[Regular view]]
/ Dewey: Hit them for donations now.
/ Woman: George Washington... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20100920 |
| Computer Budget | [[Computer Victim is standing in front of computers.]]
/ Computer Victim [[hands clasped]]: Please don't cut the computer budget! The internet gives access to worlds of knowledge! Your software teaches me skills and helps me look for work! / [[There are bookshelves in the background]]
/ Computer Victim:... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20100921 |
| Furniture | Man [[hands clasped]]: Please don't take away the daytime residents' comfortable chairs.
/ Mel: Don't worry, there's no money to replace furniture. / [[The characters are silhouetted]]
/ Man: So... our request for a fridge?
/ Mel: Unlikely. / [[Another man is sleeping in a chair, but he has slid onto... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20100922 |
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| a class="searchlink" href="http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20100924">http://unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20100924 | [untranscribed - please consider transcribing this comic!] |
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| Sunday, September 26, 2010 | [[Medium long shot of Dewey and Mel converse across a desk with a third unidentified person (Patron) looking on to the left of Dewey]]
/ Dewey: You know how some patrons are more assertive than others?
/ Mel: Yeah, some demand your attention! / [[Medium close up of Dewey and Mel; Patron has moved so he... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20100926 |
| Monday, September 27, 2010 | [[Mel and Dewey at the reference desk. Dewey at the computer.] / Mel: Tell me it's not *you*.
/ Dewey: Tell me *what's* not me? / Mel: You/ know what I'm talking about.
/ Dewey: If I did, than *it* would have to be *me*, which you just told me not to *admit*. / Mel: Tell me you're not writing about... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20100927 |
| Tuesday, September 28, 2010 | {{Someone wrote about the library's budget problems online and Mel thinks it's Dewey.}}
/ Dewey: Yup, it's anonymous.
/ Mel: So it could be *you*. / Dewey: It could be *you* too.
/ Mel: But I *know* it's not me. Who *is* it? / [[Back view]]
/ Mel: Let me make it clear, I'm afraid of the reveal.
/ Dewey:... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20100928 |
| Wednesday, September 29, 2010 | Dewey behind Mel: WHY ARE YOU SO PANICKED ANYWAY?
/ Mel, sitting at computer monitor: WE'RE HEMORRHAGING INFORMATION! / [[Close-up of online conversation on computer monitor. "Unknown-librarian: Mallville's Library may be in real financial trouble!"]]
/ Mel's voice: ONLY AN INSIDER WOULD BE PRIVY TO... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20100929 |
| Thursday, September 30, 2010 | Mel: Only we can message our budget problems! I'm going to shut down twitter!
/ Dewey: I thought Librarians were ardent defenders of free speech? / Mel: I'll politely ask them to close the account?
/ Dewey: That might push this person to more extreme action. / Mel: Are you threatening me?
/ Dewey: Only... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20100930 |
| Saturday, October 02, 2010 | Merv: Hey Dewey, can you help me reach something?
/ Dewey: Sure, hold on. / Merv: Whatcha doing?
/ Dewey: Getting the stepstool. / Merv: A stepstool? Yeah, I guess you might need that...
/ Dewey: What is it that you're trying to reach? / Merv: The next level on "Space Dragons."
/ Dewey [[sitting on stepstool]]:... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20101002 |
| "What are you doing" Sunday, October 03, 2010 | {{"What are you doing?" title over the first three scenes}}
/ [[Close up of Merv reading a comic entitled Barry Ween Boy Genius]]
/ Merv : Reading this cool graphic novel that Dewey recommended! / [[Girl at computers, two more people at computers behind her]]
/ Girl at a computer : Updating the "Manga... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20101003 |
| Monday, October 04, 2010 | Patron: Where are you from, dear?
/ Tamara: Here. / Patron: I mean originally.
/ Tamara: I'm from Here! Mallville! / Patron: I don't think you understand. When did you stary learning English? http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20101004 |
| Tuesday, October 05, 2010 | [[Five patrons avidly vie for books on a shelf marked "Dirty Books". Dewey looks on with a smile. Manager Mel glares at Dewey with her hands on her hips and an angry expression.]] / [[The same bookshelf has been relabeled "Clean Books". One patron passes by it without showing any interest. Mel gazes... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20101005 |
| Where do the books go? | [[Dewey is shelving, and Mel is peeking in from the right.]]
/ Woman: THAT book should be THERE.
/ Dewey: Okay. / [[Close-up of all three characters]]
/ Woman [[pointing]]: And THAT one doesn't belong, but I know the PERFECT book.
/ Dewey: Let's go find it then! / [[Side view of Dewey and the woman walking]]
/ Woman:... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20101006 |
| Thursday, October 07, 2010, Library Tip #81: Check References | [[A woman is carrying a book. Colleen points to her book.]]
/ Colleen: You don't want that.
/ Woman: But it's got the information I need. / [[Colleen has taken the woman's book and is leaving with it.]]
/ Colleen: It's been superseded by a newer edition.
/ Woman: Then why is it still on the shelf? / [[Colleen... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20101007 |
| The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs Friday, October 08, 2010 | [[Scene of a classroom, a youthful looking blond male teacher sits on his desk talking to his class]]
/ Okay class, you were assigned the SECOND CHAPTER of The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs.
/ The author is trying to follow the laws written in the bible as literally as possible for a year.
/ Joyce,... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20101008 |
| Saturday, October 09, 2010 | [[Merv is wearing a shirt with a "T" on it. Tamara points at his shirt.]]
/ Tamara: "T"? That's my favorite letter! / Merv: "Favorite letter?"
/ Tamara: < http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20101009 |
| Sunday, October 10, 2010 | [[Patron and Dewey at the reference desk. Patron has cigarette hanging out of his mouth.]] / Patron: Got any books on quitting smoking?
/ Dewey: Know how my uncle did it? / Patron: How's that?
/ Dewey: Took the cigarette out of his mouth. / Patron:He write a book? http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20101010 |
| Monday, October 11, 2010 | Dewy: Elsie!
/ Elsie: I do leave my cave once in a while. / Elsie: Especially when faceless administrators talk of doing away with my department! / Elsie: Offer me a sympathetic comment about the need for catalogers.
/ Dewey: Sorry, too busy basking in the illusion of my job security. http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20101011 |
| Tuesday, October 12, 2010 | [[Elsie is knitting while talking to Dewey who's working on his computer]]
/ Elsie: THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT LETTING {{in bold}} USERS {{end bold}} CATALOG OUR COLLECTION! WITH WHAT, {{in bold}} TAGS?!? {{end bold}} / Elsie: WHAT DO THEY THINK, THAT PEOPLE CAN JUST USE A {{in bold}} SEARCH ENGINE {{end... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20101012 |
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