At the Ref Desk (9/6/19): How do I know it's close to the start of the school year? Student asks me: 'Where can I borrow the Norton Anthology of American Literature'? [more...]

At the Reference Desk

Brief musings while working at the Reference Desk

Fri, 9/6/19 (3:11pm)

How do I know it's close to the start of the school year? Student asks me: 'Where can I borrow the Norton Anthology of American Literature'?

Tue, 7/2/19 (6:35pm)

Weird Request of the Week (WRW): patron needed help logging into a pc workstation with scanner. After I helped her log in she asked, 'can I fax from here?'

Sat, 6/8/19 (3:30pm)

Finals Week: Students doing a ton of work. Hats off!

Sun, 5/5/19 (5:32pm)

Question du Jour: When I send an email, should the email addresses be Ladies first?

Sat, 3/30/19 (10:43am)

1st Saturday of Spring quarter. It's 'Do-U-Have-My-Textbook' week!

Sun, 3/17/19 (8:15pm)

Full house on Sunday (finals week)

Tue, 3/12/19 (7:56pm)

Yikes, how do you know we're getting near the end of the quarter? Everyone's doing a research paper!

Sat, 2/16/19 (2:56pm)

Got asked on IM if I was having a 'good day'. Of course, I replied and then asked if the person had a research question. 'No, that's all I wanted to know. Thanks!'

Wed, 1/16/19 (7:33pm)

Today's funny: Got an IM from a student asking who to contact for an overdue book. I texted him the phone number for Access Services. Student replied back that he'd call once his class was over. Um, right.

Thu, 12/13/18 (7:41pm)

Last shift of the year. See you in 2019!

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