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F 1077.152- Ambient Noise to the Left Ambient Noise to the Right
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After taking a chair from a corner of the room and dragging it to where the benches and other sitting areas had been apportioned I couldn’t help but notice all the conversations leapfrogging each other around me. I tried to get some reading done but it was nearly impossible
F 1078.9- Impromptu Microphone Updates
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There was art all around the room. This main area was also being used as an exhibition space. There were a number of colorful interestingly shaped benches that people were sitting on. Behind the last of these benches was a velvet rope. Directly in front of the first of these benches was another rope behind which a speaker would emerge with a microphone saying such things as, “Is there anyone from the bloodmobile inside the room.”
F 1079.2 – John Hancock and the JCC
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During one of the microphone updates one of the ladies said that there were a number of volunteer initiatives that they were working on at the JCC. The JCC or Jewish Community Center is located on 364 Amsterdam near 75th St. As I was leaving the JCC on my way to the Riverside Library I put my name on the volunteer sign up sheet. I also left the book I was reading on this table. This meant that after I managed to get a few blocks away I had to walk back in the rain to collect it.
F 1080.9 Name Tags and Signal Fires
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Arriving at the Riverside branch of the New York Public Library I asked the lady at the front desk where the volunteers were supposed to go. She had no idea that there were volunteers even coming in. I spotted three women with name tags roaming around and that moved towards them.
F 1081.21 The Riverside Tour
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The instruction sheet I was given at the JCC told me to ask for Jessica or Mariah. Jessica was in the middle of a tour of the premises. She showed us the computer stations, the locations of the bathrooms and water fountain, the stacks, and finally the back room where we could put our coats and umbrellas. After I set my coat down we pulled out three chairs and a cart for the books
F1082.928 The Demonstration
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The most important thing she showed us was how the books loop around the facility. We were instructed on what defects in the books were sufficient to pull them from the shelves.
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Torn plastic covers
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If there was a little bump near the binding adjacent to the spine of the book
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If the paperback covers had been torn or in her words ‘nibbled off by a newt’
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Coffee stains in her words ‘the scow-urge of books’ (I know its scourge but that was a deliberate misspelling for phonetic sake)
F 1083.178 Battle Stations
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There were three of us. I was stationed at the beginning of Fiction. Another girl went to the end of Fiction and worked backwards. We were supposed to meet in the middle. That didn’t happen I made it from A to G. The last girl went to biographies. We were sorting books by Author’s last name and title. We were also told to make the books generally look neat and presentable. This basically meant keeping them at a consistent depth behind the edge of the row.
F 1084.14 Sleep Nazis
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A real thick, but not in a good way, sister was working security or raising her voice at people who nod off while reading books. That was her circuit. This was crosscut by gossiping with the ladies at the front desk.
F 1085.6 Abbot, Lee K. All Things at Once
The first book I pulled. I don’t know why I only made it from A-G in four hours. I assumed with my Housing Works background this would practically be a gimme. I spent most of the time daydreaming. Occasionally you’d find some little knickknack behind the rows on the shelves. Mostly it was candy wrappers. But I let my imagination implore the gods that it would be something interesting.
F 1085.44 Strolling
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The Riverside library is full of strollers. Detectives are on the case for that elusive volume. Pre-teens who are looking for the latest Death Note Manga. Older sisters, whose feet hurt, search for a seat to do their word processing. There are also a number of babes in strollers. There are some Moms with these kids, but its mostly white babies and nannies from non Caucasian ethnicities. One of these even asked me if the library was hiring because her son needed a job.
F 1086.3 Homeward Bound
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After gathering my effects I made my way home on the subway. There was a leak on the seat in front of me that everyone avoided. One lady from the first stop was brave (insert tired) enough to sit there. But the droplets from the emergency exit door on the roof spurred her mobility to the seat behind me. My seat on the q4 was especially cold or was the ass heat of my seat on the train especially warm?
