Tuesday, September 15, 2009

On helpfulness

I'm back at a certain small Midwestern University and we have a new stats-tracking database - no more check marks on paper. During the summer,when things were slow, librarians were careful to record their transactions in some detail, and my coworker has pointed me to this one:

Q: Best question ever - "Do you have books on vampires?"

A: "Novels or more like non-fiction history?"
"Non-fiction. I've been bitten by a vampire"
"When was this?"
"A couple weeks ago in my room"
"Did you have it checked by a medical professional?"
"No, I have not"

That was recommended, along with a few books in GR830.


(GR830, btw, is where you would shelve books on folklore and magical creatures; I'm guessing it takes up more shelving at Hogwarts than it does here.)

1 comment:

  1. Heather ThamsSeptember 16, 2009 at 12:37 PM

    That's awesome. My most memorable question so far has been helping a shy male undergrad research the biological aspects of the female orgasm (during which I managed to keep an entirely straight face) but I don't really get that many great questions. Public librarians have far more stories to tell.

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