The first posting of May and my last Saturday shift of the Spring semester. Holly says it has been slow, so I think I'll work on some book slips while I am on the desk. You're jealous, I know. My husband tagged along with me so that he could go to the Rec Center and workout. I'm sure he'll be in here later to bother me.
1. My husband wanted to know the name of ACRL's journal. It is called College and Research Libraries.
2. My husband wanted to know how to get to the basement.
3. (Chat) A student was looking for articles on women's liberation
4. A student wanted to know where the magazines were.
5. (Phone) Someone wanted to know the release date for the song Poison Ivy by The Coasters. He mumbled terribly so it took me a good 3 minutes or so to just discern that information from him. He even sang the chorus of the song a few times. I found the date that it first appeared on the Billboard charts, but that was not good enough. He needed the day it was released. He then wanted my name, I of course gave him a false one, and he said he would be calling back. Great.
6. A student wanted to know what time the library closed.
7. A student needed a music dictionary or encyclopedia.
8. A student was having trouble locating an article in the journal Discourse & Society.
9. (Phone) The patron from #5 called back and wanted to know if I had found anything else out about the release date of the song. I told him I had not. He continued to mumble on about the song (at least he didn't sing it again) and then wished me a nice evening and said goodbye.
10. A student (the one from #7) wanted to know what time the library closed. Then he wanted to confirm that he could make copies over in front of the circulation desk.
11. #7 was back again and wanted to know when the library closed on Sunday.
12. A student wanted to know if he could use the stapler on the reference desk.
13. A student wanted to confirm that the library closed at 10:00 p.m.
14. (Chat) A student wanted find information on the use of the song "Amazing Grace" during the Civil Rights Movement. I was on this chat for nearly 30 minutes and could not find an answer. All I could find were articles on its connection to abolition. I referred her to the subject specialist for Music.
15. (Phone) A student wanted to know what time the library closed.
16. A student was looking for articles from the New York Times from 1998.
17. The student from #16, was having problems with her Novell password.
I got zero questions the for the first hour I was on the desk. What could have been a slow afternoon turned into a fairly steady afternoon. Monday is my last night on the reference desk for the Spring 2009 semester. :) I will be working the desk some weekends, so I won't be too rusty come Fall semester.
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