[ILL-L] Re: Once upon a time...

[Sarah Lee]

Well, how about the guy who wanted to read all 700 and something Mack Bolin
paperbacks? Or the genealogists who want to tell you their whole famliy
history while they are on the phone for the umpteenths time wanting to know
where their ILL is that they just requested lst week?  

OK, this one really falls in both the funny (ha ha) and funny (peculiar)
categories.  We had a cusotomer who was convinced she was a descendant of
Pocohontas (no lie!)  and she rambled on forever about some stuff about
land in Tennessee.  We finally figured out she thought she was heir to a
bunch of land because of her heritage and want to see a court case that
supposedly decided things in favor of the contesting heirs, even though she
had no proof she was one of them.  I'm not a law librarian but had done
some legal research for myself and knew how to read the citations and
finally got what she wanted.  She was ecstatic  even though the case went
the other way, she still thought she owned half of Tennessee!

And there's the perennial request where the title and author are both
wrong!!  We get so many of those its not funny anymore!  Not when you have
to spend hours trying to figure out all the ways you could spell the
authors name or maybe its Robert not Richard and maybe the word in the
title is fires not flames or legions not eagles (yeah, that ones real!)
this guy asked for a book called the Three Eagles and no author.  Not
found.  I called and found out it was about the Roman conquest of the Huns
or something and Quintillius, so I looked him up and combined it with
fiction and finally, 2 hours later, found a book called the Three Legions!!

And then there was the Theology student so nasty to my staff I had to ask
him to leave, guess he never read the bible, huh?

Oh, well the good ol days...



Sarah L. Lee 	
Technical Services Mgr.		
Mobile Public Library		
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