Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Reference Questions, 1/27/10

Back for another fast paced day shift. I expect to get more reference questions today than I did last week.
  1. A student was looking for issues of Time magazine from the 1950's.
  2. A student was looking for the reserves.
  3. A student was looking for articles on catering.
  4. A student wanted to where she could find books with the call letter J.
  5. A student needed to watch an online movie for a class and wanted to know if she could use the computers in the ref department to do that.
  6. A student was looking for a thesaurus she could check out
  7. A student was looking for a textbook.
  8. A student was looking for the ILL office.
  9. A student was looking for a book of criticism on the poetry of Robert Lowell.
  10. A student had a question about wireless printing in the library.
  11. Three students were looking for LIBR 032.
  12. A student wanted to know if you could check out magazines or if you could photocopy from them.
  13. A librarian needed a guest username and password to test something out.
  14. A student was looking for books on weather.
  15. Two students were looking for the new books.
  16. A student was looking for an article from the New York Times from 1950.
  17. A student wanted to know where to go to get his laptop certified for use in the classroom. Huh?
  18. (Phone) A patron was looking from a guy names Alston Noah or Noah Alston. He was in the Confederate Army, 3rd Cavalry in Texas during the Civil War. The guy does not exist. Strange call.
  19. A student was looking for the reserves.
  20. A student was looking for the reserves.
  21. A student was looking for a mailbox.
Not as crazy as it was last week. Even got several real reference questions. :) I'll be back Sunday night.

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