[ILL-L] A Friday "silly" question

[Hunt, Kelley]

One day I was sitting at the Reference desk and I felt something brush against my leg. I assumed it was an electrical cord but when I looked down, I saw a lizard crawling up my leg. Normally I am not afraid of lizards at all and I often rescue them from my cats but when I saw that lizard crawling up my leg I let out a panicky screeeeeam.

Kelley
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From: ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Robinson, Arthur
Sent: Friday, November 21, 2008 9:01 AM
To: Interlibrary Loan Listserv
Subject: RE: [ILL-L] A Friday "silly" question

We can't beat that.  We've had a lizard and a bird in the library, and in the library where I worked while in library school a bat got loose (I finally caught it, but it took a while).

I'm eagerly awaiting stories of kangaroos and hippogriffs loose in the library.

Regarding the "fun" question:  I think I've told this before, but we once had a professor who told all the students in an undergradaute class to locate a dissertation in Dissertation Abstracts, then order it on interlibrary loan.  He told them they didn't have to read the dissertations, they could just order them and then send them right back, but he wanted them to learn how to get them in case they ever needed to.  (At least there were no copyright implciations.)

Arthur

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From: ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org on behalf of Paul B Drake
Sent: Fri 11/21/2008 9:40 AM
To: ill-l
Subject: [ILL-L] A Friday "silly" question

Andrea's "fun" question reminded me of a silly question: What animals have come into your ILL department?

In talking with colleagues a few weeking ago, I remembered:

a snake - around someone's wrist
a bird - flew in (happened at two libraries)
dogs - came in through the Library's electric doors
cats - loved the office's southwest corner windows for napping, and the office was on the second floor
a ferret - in someone's carry bag


I hope everyone has a fine Thanksgiving week and to non-US folks, a great weekend.



Paul B. Drake     pdrake at mcneese.edu
Interlibrary Loan Librarian   (OCLC:LHA;DOCLINE:LAUMUL)
Frazar Memorial Library     337 475 5726
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