[ILL-L] Once upon a time in ILL...

[Stahl, Sheryl]

some funny ILL stories

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From: ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Linda Clausen
Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 2:16 PM
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I had a patron request an original Egyptian document, and after I sent the request off, the other library responded that each of the five tablets weighed 5 tons and he might want to come over and read them himself.

Another high school student wanted a documentary with actual footage of Jesus' Sermon on the Mount - either VHS or DVD was fine.

 

Linda Clausen

Fort Vancouver Regional Library

 

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From: ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Kevin Wilks
Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 1:17 PM
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We had a patron call us to let us know that when they printed out the pages of the article they were upside down.  We asked them to turn the pages.  Response: "Oh! I guess I'm just having a bad day."

 

Kevin Wilks, Head of Access Services

Center for Research Libraries

6050 South Kenwood Avenue

Chicago, IL  60637

(773)955-4545 ext.314

(773)955-9732 - fax

www.crl.edu

 

From: ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Chappell, Cyndi, JCL
Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 9:17 AM
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Fellow ILL folks,

 

I am putting together an ILL Tour and Overview session, which will be attended by staff here at Johnson County Library (KNJ).  To spare them from an entire hour and ½ of dry procedures, statistics, etc., I'd like to throw some humor into the mix.  Would anyone care to share some examples of strange, funny, and-I-thought-I'd-seen-it-all types of requests you've seen come through your departments, either on the borrowing or lending side of ILL?  

 

Many thanks!

 

Cyndi Chappell

 

 

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