Reference Questions, 8/7/09

Summer session is out so things will be crazy dead today I'm sure. I'm here from 1 to 5. The library's still on summer hours so it closes at 5. I will again be heading home during peak rush hour on a Friday no less.

1. (1:46 p.m.) A patron wanted to know how big the library is. Well, it's big.
2. (1:51 p.m.) A student wanted to know where the Foust Building is located.
3. (2:20 p.m.) A student that will be starting graduate school here in the Fall had a few questions about how to search databases and about APA style.
4. (2:30 p.m.) A student wanted to use the phone to call the financial aid office. They had screwed her FA up. Same thing happened to me last semester.
5. (2:56 p.m.) A student wanted to know where the reference computers printed.
6. (3:09 p.m.) A student was having trouble with the reference printer.
7. (3:56 p.m.) A patron needed a guest log in.
8. (4:20 p.m.) A professor needed help searching social work databases. At Chapel Hill she was able to do this and couldn't do so on our computers so she was confused, really confused. She kept singing the praises of the UNC library. Every other sentence was about how much better it was than Jackson. That's were she went to school, well good for her.
9. (4:45 p.m.) A patron wanted a guest log in. Umm, we close in 10 minutes, but oh well. The public gets what the public demands.

I will not be returning to the reference desk until the day before the Fall semester begins. This summer drug by, but at the same time it went too fast.