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| Sunday, August 10, 2003 | Dewey: Do you mean a photo of a painting of Moses?
/ Patron: No, a photo. Of Moses. Like I said. / Dewey: You know there weren't cameras back then, right?
/ Patron: You're supposed to give me what I ask for! / [[Patron looking at article in Weekly Star with headline "Moses reincarnated as truck driver!"]]
/ Patron:... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20030810 |
| Monday, August 11, 2003 | Mel: Dewey, I've had some feedback about your book talks.
/ Dewey: "Feedback"? / Mel: Well, concerns have been expressed.
/ Dewey: "Concerns"? / Mel: Maybe "complaints" would be more accurate.
/ Dewey: "Complaints"? / Mel: They said you yelled "Catch!" and threw books at the kids.
/ Dewey: And let me... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20030811 |
| Tuesday, August 12, 2003 | Coach: No apologies! Speak up! Sweat for it! Never apologize!
/ Dewey: You said that already. / Coach: Let's try it out! Get a book you love! Move!
/ Dewey: Coffee good. [[pointing to it]] / Mel: Dewey, a personal coach is coming today to help you with your book talks.
/ Coach: I'm early!
/ Dewey:... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20030812 |
| Wednesday, August 13, 2003 | Coach: You're going to be a walking, talking promotion!
/ They WILL read it!! / Coach: Remember to breathe! Breathe like you mean it!! / Coach: There's an energy field between your shoulders! Project! I want them to hear that title across the street! / [[Dewey is holding a book and shouting out... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20030813 |
| Thursday, August 14, 2003 | Coach: What is THIS?
/ Dewey: SELINA'S BIG SCORE, a graphic novel, by Darwyn Cooke! / Coach: What are you, a children's librarian? Get a book without pictures!
/ Dewey: No way! Look how he sets the location with a single page! It's fantastic! / Coach: Great passion! But don't evaluate-just sock it... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20030814 |
| Friday, August 15, 2003 | [[Tamara and Dewey stand side by side, watching the Coach walk away.]]
/ Tamara: You had a personal coaching session? I'm so jealous!
/ Dewey: You are? / Tamara: Just think of it! Someone to point out my every flaw in detail *and* tell me how to correct them! / [[Dewey ponders what Tamara just said.]] / Tamara:... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20030815 |
| Saturday, August 16, 2003 | [[iEveryone is looking at the floor]]
/ Mel: What is *THAT*?
/ Merv: It look hard...
/ Buddy: ...but with a gooey center!
/ Dewey: I'm getting my camera!
/ Tamara: I'm getting the janitor.
/ Colleen: I'm getting out of here. http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20030816 |
| Sunday, August 17, 2003 | Patron: I'm going to ask you the stupidest question you've heard all day.
/ Dewey: Shoot! / Patron: Aren't you going to reassure me that there are no stupid questions?
/ Dewey: I wouldn't insult you with a blatant lie. / Patron: Now I'm feeling a little self-conscious.
/ Dewey: I'm not surprised, raising... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20030817 |
| Monday, August 18, 2003 | Mel: What's with the extra bean bags?
/ Dewey: The Outlet City branch needed a place to put them. / Mel: Don't tell me THEY'RE remodelling!
/ Dewey: Nope. Replacing burned ceiling tiles. / Mel: Ah yes, the famed "fire eater" program. I'm glad we're more safety-conscious than that!
/ Merv [[holding electrical... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20030818 |
| Tuesday, August 19, 2003 | [[Merv is in swim trunks and poised to dive from a flat surface]] / [[Merv somersaults in midair]] / [[Merv lands on a pile of beanbags. Two boys hold up signs reading "8" and "9"]]
/ < http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20030819 |
| Wednesday, August 20, 2003 | [[A boy blows a spitball]] / [[A paper ball hits the boy in the forehead]]
/ < http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20030820 |
| Thursday, August 21, 2003 | [[There's a beanbag and four basketballs on the floor in front of a book case.]]
/ Voice over: The peaceful Horta could eat through solid rock. / [[Half of a shocked person appears from under the rock-like beanbag! The basketball eggs have been bitten or crunched!]]
/ Voice over: When miners accidentally... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20030821 |
| Friday, August 22, 2003 | Tamara: Hey Dewey, Outlet City wants their bean bags back!
/ Dewey: Good riddance! / Tamara: But they seemed so popular!
/ Dewey: Yes indeed. They gave the young adult sectiona veneer of fun. For one, brief shining moment this was the place to be in the library! / Tamara: In other words, you've had... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20030822 |
| Saturday, August 23, 2003 | [[A one-panel strip. A girl points at things and her mother worriedly talks to Tamara, who's smiling.]]
/ Girl: "Mallville Library"
/ "Tamara, children's librarian"
/ "Banned books week"
/ "Break in case of emergency"
/ Mother: She's like this everywhere! What's wrong with her?
/ Tamara: Your daughter is a... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20030823 |
| Sunday, August 24, 2003 | Mel: Look! The kindergarten class drew pictures of us to thank us for the library tour! I'm "Lady in Charge."
/ Tamara: I'm "Ray of Sunshine."
/ Colleen: "Knows Everything."
/ Dewey: "Triangle Head"?!? http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20030824 |
| Monday, August 25, 2003 | [[Dewey and Tamara, looking frustrated, are answering phone calls]]
/ Dewey: No, I can't tell you if we have those books.
/ Dewey: Because the online catalog is down.
/ Tamara: No, I *haven't* memorized the Dewey Decimal system.
/ Tamara: Yes, I *did* go to library school. / [[Colleen triumphantly pushes... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20030825 |
| Tuesday, August 26, 2003 | [[Colleen is talking to different patrons]] / Colleen: "Bellwether"? Author: Connie Willis. Fiction. Last aisle on your right. / Colleen: "ASP.NET in a Nutshell"? 005.276 -- but it's checked out. / [[Dewey, Mel, and Tamara discussing off-panel Colleen]] / Tamara: How does Colleen do that? She hasn't... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20030826 |
| Wednesday, August 27, 2003 | [[Dewey talking on the phone]] / Dewey: Okay, I found the book you were looking for. No, the catalog is still down. / Dewey: Another librarian knew where it was. She knows where ALL the books are. / [[Dewey still talking on phone with Colleen in background helping a patron on the computer]] / Dewey:... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20030827 |
| Thursday, August 28, 2003 | Mel: Colleen looks so happy!
/ Tamara: The catalog is down. Suddenly she's indispensable. / Mel: What would make me indispensable?
/ Tamara: Mel, we always need you! For, uh... / Tamara: Dewey, tell Mel why we need her.
/ Dewey: You empty the staff dishwasher every day. / Tamara: Actually that's me.
/ Dewey:... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20030828 |
| Friday, August 29, 2003 | Colleen: [[sullen]] The card catalog is back up.
/ I'll return to my cobwebs now.
/ Mel: Colleen you were a wonder today! / Colleen: A firm grounding in the basics, that's all I have.
/ Mel: Well it was very much appreciated today! / [[Colleen walks off looking considerably happier. Tamara walks up]] / [[Dewey... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20030829 |
| Saturday, August 30, 2003 | [[Dewey is talking to a man from behind the information desk]]
/ Dewey: That's a tough question. Give me a moment. / [[Dewey assumes "The Thinker" pose]] / [[Dewey straightens up]]
/ Dewey: Okay, I'm done.
/ Man: Do you have an answer for me? / Dewey: No, but my headache is gone! http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20030830 |
| Sunday, August 31, 2003 | Mel: [[To Dewey]] If you get a hard question, be POSITIVE! People want to know you can help! / Dewey: [[enthusiastically, to a man]] YES! Of COURSE we have that information! / Man: Where?
/ Dewey: Not a clue. You start on the left, I'll start on the right. http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20030831 |
| Monday, September 01, 2003 | [[Tamara is at the reference desk helping a woman.]]
/ Woman: When was Benjamin Harrison president?
/ Tamara: I'll check. / Woman: Also, I need Ghana's exports.
/ Tamara: Is this for a class? / Woman: Yes, my son's.
/ Tamara: You're doing your son's homework? Why isn't HE doing it? / Woman: He's playing... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20030901 |
| Tuesday, September 02, 2003 | [[Tamara is talking to Dewey.]]
/ Tamara: . . . And she was doing her son's homework!
/ Dewey: Yep, it's an epidemic. / Tamara: But the kids aren't LEARNING anything!
/ Dewey: Sure, but what can we do? We're librarians, not parents. / Tamara: I know. If we were parents we'd be doing their homework.
/ Mom:... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20030902 |
| Wednesday, September 03, 2003 | [[Tamara and a boy, who is carrying a soccer ball, are talking.]]
/ Boy: Hi, have you seen my Mom? Tall, dark hair...
/ Tamara: Doing your homework? / Boy: That's her.
/ Tamara: Aren't you ashamed? / [[Boy's mother walks up carrying a pile of books and papers and stands between Tamara and the boy.]]
/ Boy:... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20030903 |
| Thursday, September 04, 2003 | History Teacher: Say, aren't you Billy's mother? I'm his history teacher.
/ Billy's Mother: Er, yes, I am. / History Teacher: I've really enjoyed his last two papers!
/ Billy's Mother: Good, good... / History Teacher: His handwriting's so beautiful all of a sudden. Almost like a different person's. / Dewey:... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20030904 |
| Friday, September 05, 2003 | Merv; My mom won't do my homework!
/ Merv; How am I supposed to fit in at school?
/ Dewey; I'll do it for you!
/ Dewey; Just sign this release. / Merv; "I hereby abdicate my homework responsibilities because I anticipate pursuing a career in the exhilarating and high-paid world of fast-food preparation... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20030905 |
| Saturday, September 06, 2003 | Dewey: Just this how long this would take if we DIDN'T have the Internet!
/ Angry Woman: You mean it could actually take LONGER? http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20030906 |
| Sunday, September 07, 2003 | Man: I need to know what stocks are going up.
/ Dewey: Oh, yeah, we've got that right over here. / Dewey: It's between the weather charts for next year and the upcoming World Series winners.
/ Man: That's absurd! / Dewey: I'm glad you...
/ Man: Why would stocks be next to the weather? http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20030907 |
| Monday, September 08, 2003 | [[A guy of color walks away with a library card]]
/ Dewey: Enjoy your new library card and welcome to Mallville!
/ Tamara: A new arrival? / Dewey: A whole tribe's worth! Now if you'll excuse me. it's my coffee break. / Mel: Did someone say there's an underserved ethnic group needing the library's attention?
/ Dewey:... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20030908 |
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