TangognaT

Agent Of L.I.B.R.A.R.Y.

October 7th, 2003 at 11:01 pm

beyond the valley of the refgrunt

Ever since refgrunt went on vacation I’ve noticed an alarming spike in my referral logs. Clearly people crave more refgrunting. Here you go!

Printing
French Dictionaries are over there, miss.
We can’t hold your backpacks for you while you go eat.
Printing
Scissors
If you are researching public health policies, try these sources…
That speaker is in that building across campus
Printing
You search the library catalog to find out if we have a journal
Printing
We don’t have the videotapes that are on reserve for your class at another university. If we did, you couldn’t check them out today, since you aren’t a student here. Sorry sir.
Wireless
You can check out an ethernet cable over there, miss
Group study places are over there
Here are some resources to try for your poli sci paper
Citation management software
We don’t have MSWord on these computers, sir
Grammar handbooks are there, miss
You can get into E-Journals from your dorm room, sir
Printing

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  • Little Librarian
    6:17 pm on October 10th, 2003 1

    I tried my hand at it, too. It’s rather fun. And I think people do crave it, I know I’ve been missing it. I love the one about having videos for a class from another school on reserve. Yeesh…

  • Open Stacks
    10:42 pm on October 10th, 2003 2

    Teaching each other
    You know what I find lacking in the LIS blogosphere? I see a fair amount of writing that mentions different reference situations (refgrunt, anyone?), but I never learn anything about how our diverse collection of information professionals goes about ha…

  • Adventures of an InfoMage in Training
    12:31 am on October 11th, 2003 3

    Are you willing to teach?
    Greg (of Open Stacks ) brings up a great topic : “You know what I find lacking in the LIS blogosphere? I see a fair amount of writing that mentions different reference transactions ( refgrunt , anyone?), but I never learn anything about how our diverse co

  • tangognat
    6:20 pm on October 11th, 2003 4

    It is fun, I think it is interesting to see the different types of questions people get.