[ILL-L] Interlibrary Loan hiakus

[Paul Drake]

On March 5, Kytara Gaudin, Head of Access Services for the State Library of
Louisiana, and I presented a program on interlibrary loan at the Louisiana
Library Assn Conference in Shreveport LA. Being a 9am session, on the
Conference's first day, we started the program with a hiaku writing task -
to get their minds thinking about interlibrary loan and set the tone for an
interactive session.

 

Below are some of the entries collected - please remember this was
spontaneous and they had 5 minutes to develop their entry.

 

 

 

Paul B. Drake

Interlibrary Loan Librarian

Frazar Memorial Library

McNeese State University (LHA)

Lake Charles LA 70609

337.475.5726      pdrake at mcneese.edu

 

McNeese State University - Excellence with a Personal Touch

 

 

A hiaku is a three line poem, with 5 syllables in the first line, 7 in the
second line, and 5 in the last line.

 

 

 

Interlibrary Loan haiku (some aren't hiaku 5-7-5 format, but still
accepted.)

 

 

Information please

For fun, for work, or for school

Hurry, hurry please

 

Books and other things

Travel back and forth to me.

Life is much more fun.

 

Interlibrary loan - 

When I do not get my book,

Then I become ill.

 

Each day we look for

A book that is not found here.

Answer: I.L.L.

 

How I help Rapides?

In their time of need or want?

I send what I have.

<note: Rapides is one of the parish (county) library systems here in LA>

 

Books I could not find

Might be somewhere far away

I can still get it

 

She always wants books

That I can't find on our shelves. 

I can still say yes

 

I love I.L.L.

It provides job security and great exercise

Of the mind and body

 

Out in rural parts

Books we can't find, we get from

Other libraries

 

I need this book now.

The request went in today.

Is it here yet, huh?

 

I ask the library

For a rare book from afar

I get it soon though.

 

Watson I.L.L.

Borrowing, lending I do

Can I assist you?

 

Borrow, lend, borrow

Interlibrary loaning

Helps us one and all.

 

 

 

Non-hiaku entry:

I.L.L. doesn't mean you are sick.

It's just in a pinch

You'll have your book that quick.

 

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