[Publib] best reference question ever

[Sanderson, James W.]

Lets see over the years I have been asked for photographs of the Pilgrim arrival, Jesus, Catherine the Great, when the letter "J" was invented ( seems straight forward but the patron argued with my response, taken from the OED because "the people who originally wrote the Bible could not have spelled Jerusalem" if "J" had not been invented then")"where is the yellow book I was reading last week?" "Do you have any books by the famous American author, Hemingstein?"

James W. Sanderson
Supervising Librarian
West Avenue Library
Newport News Public Library
2907 West Avenue
Newport News, Virginia. 23607
(757) 247-8505
(757) 247-2344
www.nngov.com/library
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To: Corner, Dean; Susan P Librarian; publib at webjunction.org
Subject: RE: [Publib] best reference question ever

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> 3.  Patron rolling up a shirtsleeve and showing me her arm, "is this
> herpes?"

You win.:-)




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