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| Sunday, January 21, 2007 | The Unshelved Book Club presents "The Hustler" by Walter Tevis / [[Two men are playing pool]]
/ Dewey: When Fast Eddie Felson walked into Bennington's to play Minnesota Fats he was the best pool hustler in the country. When he walked out he was a broken man. And he hadn't hit bottom yet. Before he... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20070121 |
| Monday, January 22, 2007 | Dewey: I'm surprised to see you here.
/ Mel: I'm a manager. I have lots of paperwork. / Dewey: I understand your job.
/ Mel: Then what's so surprising about seeing me at my desk? / Dewey: Guess.
/ [[Mel sitting at desk in middle of library. Library users walking by and browsing shelves]] http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20070122 |
| Tuesday, January 23, 2007 | [[Mel at a desk near the stacks speaking to Dewey]]
/ Mel: I've decided the way to deal with problem behavior is to put myself in the middle of it. / [[Mel holding a form]]
/ Mel: Now I'll be able to keep an eye on things. I'll know who is responsible. And I'll fill out the correct forms! / [[Dewey... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20070123 |
| Wednesday, January 24, 2007 | Mel [[bruised and rumpled]]: I don't know how anyone does their job around here!
/ Dewey: Well we don't usually put our desks in the middle of the library. / Mel: It's time for your shift. I'm commandeering your desk.
/ Dewey: Oh no you don't. this was your crazy idea. / Dewey [[at Mel's desk in middle... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20070124 |
| Thursday, January 25, 2007 | [[In the library]]
/ Mel: How does Dewey use this computer? The keyboard is full of corn syrup!
/ Colleen: I want my turn. / Mel: Pardon me?
/ Colleen: At your desk. It's the perfect excuse to get nothing done. / [[Tamara approaches]]
/ Colleen: Oh no you don't! I've got seniority!
/ Mel: Et tu, Tamara?
/ Tamara:... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20070125 |
| Friday, January 26, 2007 | [Dewey is lounging at a desk, his feet up on the desk. Mel is addressing him. In the background two children are playing in the shelves.]
/ Mel: Why aren't you stopping them?
/ Dewey: I'm at my desk.
/ Mel: *My* desk.
/ Dewey: Whatever. It's not my job right now. / Mel: Someone rubbed jelly donut into... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20070126 |
| Saturday, January 27, 2007 | Mel: What do you mean you won't help me?
/ Dewey: I'm not carrying your desk back to your office. / Mel: My plan didn't work! This is your chance to revel in it!
/ Dewey: Today you made me a babysitter and a security guard. I won't be a furniture mover too. / Mel [[to Dewey walking away]]: But you didn't... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20070127 |
| Sunday, January 28, 2007 | The Unshelved Book Club presents "WORLD WAR Z, An Oral History of the Zombie Wars" by Max Brooks / [[Dewey is backed against the wall by zombie versions of Colleen and baby, Ned, Grandma, Mel, Merv, Buddy and Tamara]]
/ Dewey: When the dead rose to attack the living, it sounded like a fairy tale. Disbelief... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20070128 |
| Monday, January 29, 2007 | Dewey: Still no computers?
/ Mel: The windstorm wrecked them. / Dewey: Will we be getting new ones soon? The natives are restless.
/ Mel: A few more days without computers won't hurt anybody. / Angry Patrons [[off-panel]]: *BURN IT DOWN! BURN IT ALL DOWN!*
/ Mel [[walking towards Angry Patrons]]: I'll... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20070129 |
| Tuesday, January 30, 2007 | [[Mel is talking with Dewey]]
/ Mel: Good news. I"ve begun the provisioning process.
/ Dewey: What does that mean, exactly? / Mel: Colleen is going shopping for computers.
/ Dewey: I'm not so sure that's a good idea. / [[Colleen enters, holding an ad]]
/ Mel: You underestimate her. She's learned a lot... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20070130 |
| Wednesday, January 31, 2007 | [[Colleen and Dewey are in a store, Colleen is holding a box]]
/ Colleen: I don't need help shopping for computers.
/ Dewey: Of course you don't. / Colleen [[looking at box]]: You think this is the wrong computer.
/ Dewey: I wouldn't say that. / Colleen: You mean I made a good choice?
/ Dewey [[looking... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20070131 |
| Thursday, February 01, 2007 | [[Mel and Colleen in the library]]
/ Mel: You're back!
/ Colleen: It's not my fault. / Mel: What's wrong? Didn't you get computers?
/ Colleen: He made me. I fought it every step of the way. / [[Dewey holds up a computer box]]
/ Mel: What have you done?
/ Dewey: Welcome to Macintosh! http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20070201 |
| Friday, February 02, 2007 | [[Mel and Dewey are talking. Computer Victim is standing behind them, holding an iMac]]
/ Mel: Macs can't run our software!
/ Dewey: Yes they can. / Mel: They cost too much!
/ Dewey: No they don't. / Mel: They're not ugly enough!
/ Dewey: Give it a minute.
/ Computer Victim: I spilled hot fudge on the ... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20070202 |
| Saturday, February 03, 2007 | [[Buddy wearing Apple t-shirt, walking up to Dewey who is using computer]]
/ Buddy: Hi, I'm a Mac!
/ Dewey: Like that guy in the ads? / Buddy: What guy? I just want to be a Mac!
/ Dewey: Why? / [[Dewey and Buddy in background, Tamara in foreground hugging Mac monitor]]
/ Buddy: No reason.
/ Tamara: I LOVE... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20070203 |
| Sunday, February 04, 2007 | The Unshelved Book Club presents "Kiki Strike: Inside the Shadow City" by Kirsten Miller / [[Six women are gathered in a library, four of them standing around a table with a map on it]] / Dewey: Ananka and Kiki team up to map the Shadow City beneath Manhattan, keep it out of criminal hands, and maybe... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20070204 |
| Monday, February 05, 2007 | [[Female patron, accompanied by Dewey, faces bookshelves]]
/ Patron: Oh my goodness!
/ Dewey: They're just books. Libraries are full of 'em. / Dewey: Audio books.
/ Patron: Oh my gosh! / [[Dewey stands with hand on an unhappy Mel's shoulder, facing patron]]
/ Dewey: And this is our branch manager, who... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20070205 |
| Tuesday, February 06, 2007 | [[Mel introduces a patron to Tamara]]
/ Mel: And this is Tamara, our children's librarian. Tamara, meet the only lady who can outhappy you.
/ Patron: Oh my! Pleased to meet you! / Mel: She'll love anything you show her.
/ Tamara: [[showing patron felt board]] Have you ever felt a felt board?
/ Patron:... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20070206 |
| Wednesday, February 07, 2007 | [[Dewey, accompanied by female patron, opens door to meeting room]]
/ Dewey: Okay Miss Delighted-by-Everything-She-Sees, this is where we caught two teens in the throes of passion
/ Patron: Oh my! / [[Dewey is now holding a book, pointing to a stain]]
/ Dewey: This spot? Blood.
/ Patron: Oh no. / [[Dewey... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20070207 |
| Thursday, February 08, 2007 | [[Computer Victim stands, weeping, with his hands over his face. Dewey has his hand on his shoulder and is facing Mel who is standing nearby.]]
/ Dewey: I just told him his MySpace "friends" aren't really his friends. http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20070208 |
| Friday, February 09, 2007 | Tamara: I can't get this poster out of its sleeve!
/ Dewey: Stand back! / [[Dewey blows the sleeve like a balloon]] / [[The poster is now in the middle of a balloon]]
/ Tamara: That helped me HOW? http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20070209 |
| Saturday, February 10, 2007 | Library Tip #34: Understand the technology / [[computer area]]
/ Computer victim: I thought it was a touch screen.
/ Dewey: It's not. / Computer victim: I though I could draw on it.
/ Dewey: You can't. / Computer victim: Actually I could.
/ Dewey: You used a permanent marker.
/ Merv: Ohh, nice smiley... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20070210 |
| Sunday, February 11, 2007 | The Unshelved Book Club presents "Strangers in Paradise: Highs School" by Terry Moore / [[Drawing of Francine and Katchoo hugging, sitting on the floor below an open window.]] / Person one: Don't leave me. Please don't... leave...
/ Person two: Okay, okay. I'm here. I won't leave you. I won't leave... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20070211 |
| Monday, February 12, 2007 | [[Dewey and Mel are standing behind a desk with a chicken standing on the desk nudging Mel's hand]]
/ Dewey: Not again
/ Mel: This is Nancy, the reading advocacy chicken. / [[Mel pats the chicken.]]
/ Mel: It took tens of thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours, but a team of consultants was able to... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20070212 |
| Tuesday, February 13, 2007 | Mel: While we're lucky enough to have Nancy you won't be doing storytimes.
/ Tamara: But- / Mel: They're inefficient. You require prep time. All Nancy needs is corn!
/ Nancy: < http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20070213 |
| Wednesday, February 14, 2007 | [[Tamara and Dewey are watching Mel show Nancy the Reading Advocacy Chicken to Apollo]]
/ Tamara: I think I hate that chicken.
/ Dewey: How much? / [[Dewey holds up a friend chicken leg]]
/ Tamara: It will take more than one annoying fowl to change who I am.
/ Dewey: I have original and extra crispy.... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20070214 |
| Thursday, February 15, 2007 | Mel: Our chicken has more people reading than ever!
/ Dewey: Checking out books is not reading. / Mel: She's pushed our circulation through the roof!
/ Tamara: But we're not talking to people like we used to. / Mel: Did you miss the part where I said our numbers are up? Success!
/ Tamara [[to Dewey]]:... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20070215 |
| Friday, February 16, 2007 | Dewey: How much longer are we chicken sitting?
/ Tamara: The whole delightful summer. / Dewey: Are her feathers falling out? What's that smell?
/ Tamara: I think she's a little stressed. / Nancy: < http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20070216 |
| Saturday, February 17, 2007 | Nancy: < http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20070217 |
| Sunday, February 18, 2007 | The Unshelved Book Club presents "The Big Book of Irony" by Jon Winokur / Dewey: You are a very sincere person. You take things at face value. I respect that. But our world is steeped in irony. You need to understand it.
/ Tamara: I understand irony.
/ Dewey: For instance...? / [[Tamara points... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20070218 |
| Monday, February 19, 2007 | [[Mel is reading a book]]
/ Mel: Did you know that people agree with you more when you repeat their words back at them?
/ Dewey: I didn't know that people agree with you more when you repeat their words back at them. / Mel [[looking up]]: I think it's fascinating.
/ Dewey: I think it's fascinating, too. / Dewey... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20070219 |
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