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Reading List
FOUND by Blake
in Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada
Our local library issues printed receipts for checked-out books, complete with due dates.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
Interesting combination! I can't wait to see the "back stories" my fellow Foundhounds come up with about these books.
Obviously someone is planning/has got a divorce, and is looking for a second chance. With their newfound freedom, they are taking up a musical instrument--perhaps one the ex hated to hear in the house. Or perhaps the ex was a total Philistine and only liked techno.
Is the borrower a Schizophrenic, or one of the children surviving the divorce? Did the symptoms appear before or after the decision to separate?
I don't know what "The Dangerous Book for Boys" is about. I used to have a book called "100 Things Any Boy Can Do" which included planting mustard and cress seed in the back of a hollowed out potato "hedgehog."
I wish I had something clever to add, but I've got nothing.
but for some reason this find gave me a good laugh
with nothing worthwhile to add in my comment, I offer this, some info on ?the dangerous book for boys" that I just looked up.
it claims to be a guide for fathers and sons, about getting back to more down to earth manly skills that have been lot in this modern age "relearn how to palm a coin, tan a skin, and, most charmingly, wrap a package in brown paper and string"
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0061243
ok for some reason the URL I posted got cut off.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0061243
582/bookstorenow99-20
WOW! What a selection! Funny...Etobicoke is only a 45 min drive from where I live.
Never have I been to a library that gives reciepts?
my library also uses receipts.
they replace those little paper cards that they used to stamp the due date onto.
I MUCH preferred the cards, because they served as a book mark and reminder of their due date all in one. now you just get one stupid receipt for all your books.
I have read *Surviving Schizophrenia*, and so have I.
'Men, Women and' what?
'Pianos' was the first book title that came to mind.
Well, at least everything on this list is spelled correctly!
Librarian secrets - the long numbers are the barcodes identifying each book in the comnputer's database - the long titles are cut off after the same number of letters - the two short titles end with a slash "/" because that's the punctuation mark thea divides title from author . . . and that's about it for librarian secrets on this one.
*that* not *thea*
@ baby basil ... I think someone's ALREADY been divorced, either this reader or his/her parents, probably the latter. Books 1 and 3 on this list are about the effects of divorce -- years later -- on children of divorced parents.
My guess is that the reader is wondering "why am I so screwed up?? oh, yeah, my parents got divorced. But does that mean nobody loves me and that I can't trust anyone?"
Now this child of divorce is a parent and doesn't know how to play games with his own son (hence book 2, since his own dad was never around); feels 'crazy' some times (hence trying to self-diagnose with book 4, which weighs less than DSM IV); and just wants to express the music in his soul (hence book 5, which also points out that his divorced mom couldn't afford piano lessons when he was a kid).
Chances are none of the books will be read through before they're due back at the library.
"Doe. A deer. A female deer. Ray, a drop of golden sun...." (Darn, now I'll have that song going through my head all day.)
Second chances: men, women, and . . . the men who love them. Next Oprah.
"Men, Women and Outhouses:
A Guide for Public Facilities in the Deep South."
Boy, that's a lot of books to read before the due date. Maybe the borrower was getting books for more than one person.
I'm surprised Blake didn't tell us where he found this. I hope it wasn't in the librarian's out-stretched hand after he checked out these books.
Second chances: men, women, and ... ???
Maybe this should be a new spam question.
My favorite part of "Dangerous Book for Boys" is the section on grammar. I haven't bought because I'm not a boy and I don't have a boy. I just saw the grammar section when I leafed through the book at Costco. Maybe I should buy it anyway.
Speaking on behalf of all the boys I know - any book that makes you 'think' is dangerous.
Why is only the first word of these book titles capitalized? I have noticed that in France, in movie and book titles only the first word is capitalized, unlike in the U.S., where all the big words of titles are capitalized, but not the little words. Is this true in Canada too? I thought it was a French/English language thing, but this receipt is in English. Mona? Lars? Librarian? Can you help?
Not only does my library give receipts, it's self-check out. You scan your card and scan your books yourself, the receipt prints out and voila.
@ Clover ... that's the other library secret I forgot to include above: back in the 19th century when Anglo-American cataloguing rules were being codified, someone made the decision that ONLY the first letter of the first word (and the first letters of proper names in a title) should be capitalized. I believe the real reason is typography -- that is, on any given title page (and we catalog from title pages, not covers!) there can be all kinds of wacky capitalization, different editions even appearing differently, use of ALL CAPS or none at all. It's just simpler to do it this way.
At least with English-language titles. With German titles, for example, we capitalize all nouns because that's what German does.
And on this Found, the titles are sucked out of the catalog when the barcode gets scanned, so whatever is in the catalog shows up on the slip.
Too much information; sorry.
Clover, when i'm referring a title of a book, i capitalize all the words, except for the little ones, (like is, if, at, you know...)I think that's what the AMA guidelines say.
@Librarian, not too much information at all. Perfect.
Mona, we were taught to do that too. But I guess the correct format for card catalogs is different, as Librarian said. It makes sense. I should have known this, because my mother was a school librarian, and I helped her in the library countless times.
A few years ago we visited Eureka Springs, Arkansas, where they have a Carnegie library that still used an actual card catalog. It was the most beautiful little library I've ever seen. We ducked in to avoid a thunder storm burst and it was a very lucky find. There's a big stone fireplace and reading tables surrounded by lofts of books on the second floor. And it was quiet. People whispered, like in the old library days. It felt great to actually touch a card catalog once again. I didn't realize how much I missed it. It's a sensual experience.. the feel of the cards, the visual aesthetics of the drawers and their arrangement.
@Terrie - ours too!!! I love that Nashville is progressive. . . or is that lazy. . . hmmm.
yesterday, on a visit to the library, my almost 17yr old offspring said that she loved the smell of libraries. One of my proudest moments.
Second chances: men, women, and purple cows.
Not diggin those receipts either! The cards were much better grrr >:O
Looks like quite the diverse reading list for the schizophrenic person(s).
The first thing that came to my mind was "oh no... it's that time of year again..." This looks like a list of textbooks to me!!
Though now that I've looked one up (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dangerous_Book_fo it doesn't look like it...
Although the receipt seems too modern for me ( i would prefer the old card thingie in the back of the book.) i can see how it might be helpful if you've forgotten what books you have that are overdue. Although, i'd probably lose it anyway. If i can't keep track of a whole book, how am i supposed to keep track of a little paper receipt.
The problem I had with the card thingy in the back is the librarians or patrons (depending) never seems to stamp them in order. This has even been in several places. I always had to search for the due date and try to figure out which one was mine. Or it would be the one stamped on top of an older stamp and was now a big blob. So the receipts seem smarter. I use them as bookmarks, too.
Our library prints out a receipt for each book you borrow. I miss the stamping of the due date. It was interesting to me to see how many times the book had been borrowed and when.
Second Chances :Men, Women and Children A Decade After Divorce
@ TERRIE IS SO VERY- That sounds like our grocery stores, now some of the food chains allow you to scan your own items and bag them, and pay for it all by yourself!
**I'M A BIG KID NOW!!**
Although, it can get very frustrating when some person ahead of you doesn't know what in G*D'S name they're doing or pressing, or scanning!!! FU$%
But, when quiet, it's very convenient!!!
I feel very sensual when someone touches my drawers.
TMI ALERT!
After I split up with my SOS husband, my library receipts looked MUCH like this one. Before I left him I had been having dreams for months about murdering him in different ways. I'm all better now. Really, I am. That Schizophrenia book really helped. Really.
Our library uses exactly this system. You can also self-issue by putting your card under a laser and then placing the books on a special pad which reads the barcodes. This works great until some numbnuts who doesn't know what they're doing comes along before you have finished your transaction and proceeds to put their books on the pad - thereby issuing their books onto your card. Then, you must try to find a living, breathing librarian to undo the damage - much confusion ensues! Oh well, who said technology is a time-saver. I personally don't read much non-fiction but if I did, my list would read something like this:
1. Cake: Why would you need anything else?
2. The extremely extensive and drawn-out art of procrastination
3. Driving Miss Daisy (protecting the hoi polloi from octogenerian dangers on the road)
4. Self-hypnotism: why am I so sleeeeeppppyyy?
5. Hair shirts and self-flagellation: a beginner's guide to Catholicism
Y'know, all this library data is now available to the FBI (thank the Homeland Security Act) so's they can find out from the books you read if you're a freedom-hating terrorist. The moral of the story: steal your books.
cabbage and gorgon, hahahaha!
I bought The Dangerous Book For Boys for my son, who isn't into reading. He hasn't read it.
I miss the old *card in the back of the book* with the due date stamped on it, and then your Jane/John Doe witten beside it.
I also miss seeing who had signed the book out before me! For if it was the school library, then you knew most of the other kids.
And I, as well, used the card for my bookmark rather than damaging the pages and using *rabbit ears* for marking/keeping my spot.
...Men, Women and Don't Knows.
You probably thought I was joking when I said 'Men, Women and Pianos' but it does exist:
http://tinyurl.com/5z644h
'Second chances' must be the sequel.
@nightingale, he must have got as far as reading the title and decided not to risk it.
Victoria Library in London recently went over to a self-checkout system and the printouts look exactly like this. Must be some internationally used system?
@Gorgon
I asked my local librarian one day if I could have a print out of all the books I'd checked out in the last six months because I could not remember the name of and author I wanted to look up. She told me that they keep no records of books that are checked out. Once the book is turned in, the information is immediately dumped and irretreivable. She told me they did this because of the whole FBI thing.
@ Lucky
Yah, I've worked as a library assistant and my boss (at the time) declined certain circulation system upgrades for the same reason (more information to citizens, less to the FBI). Librarians are usually dam good people.