[Publib] best reference question ever

[Susan P Librarian]

oo!  That reminds me of the mother who came in wanting books about
President Bush.  I said, "certainly!  Which one?"  Her response ...
"There is more than one?"  This was made even more strange when it
turned out she wanted daddy Bush, not CURRENT PRESIDENT Bush.

(before you mention it: No, I'm fairly certain she was not making a
statement about whether the 2000/2004 elections were stolen.  I think
she really didn't know ... )

On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 8:24 AM, Lynn Carpenter
<lcarpenter at bham.lib.al.us> wrote:
> It was at the end of one of those long days in Feburary when a student asked
> if he could Xerox Lincoln?  I said, "He's been dead for quite a few years,
> Would a picture of him do?"
>
> Next, a young lady asked for the book on "The Aferican-American Kings and
> Queens?"  I told her that as far as I knew we hadn't had any
> Aftican-American Kings and Queens."  She insisted that some one had agiven
> her a book on African-American Kings and Queens.  I handed her a book on
> African Kings and Queens and she said that was it.  I pointed out that it
> was on African Kings and Queens.  Fifteen minutes later she returned and
> asked for that book I had given her on African-American Kings and Queens,
>
> A little while later, a young man asked for a book on the African-American
> Presidents of the United States.  I told him that as far as I knew we hadn't
> had any.  He told me his teacher had told him there had been (this was
> twelve years ago.)  I asked if the teacher had mentioned any names and he
> said she had told him that Abraham Lincoln was African-American, so I gave
> him a book on Abraham Lincoln.
>
> Lynn
>
> Paul-Andre Bempechat wrote:
>
> This is indeed priceless.  It reminds me of a conversation during
> intermission
> at the Pitti Palace in Florence, when a lady from NYC had asked me if I'd
> ever
> heard of the Gelateria Vivoli, allegedly Florence's then-most celebrated.
> When
> I confessed my ignorance, she responded: "No problem finding it: it's behind
> a
> church."
> Happy Thanksgiving to all.
> Paul-Andre Bempechat
> Center for European Studies
> Harvard University
> Quoting imukherjee100 at qc.cuny.edu:
>
>
> Someone asked me - "I am looking for a "romance" book but I do not remeber
> the title or the author's name, but it is a thin book".  I had to direct her
> to the "romance" paperbacks and harpercollins collection.  Indira Mukherjee
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