Comments on: Reference Question of the Week – 1/23/11 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2011/01/29/reference-question-of-the-week-12311/ or, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Fear and Loathing at a Public Library Reference Desk Mon, 20 May 2013 23:17:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Brian Herzog http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2011/01/29/reference-question-of-the-week-12311/#comment-2565 Brian Herzog Sun, 24 Apr 2011 01:02:58 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=1266#comment-2565 @EdT: Thank you for licensing your work so others can use it – I’m always happy to do the same thing. Next time I’m at my parents’ house I’m going to dig around for that book – I think it was in some kind of series, but this one was “real monsters” or something like that. The picture from the book was basically the same composition, but much darker (because they’re deep in the ocean, I guess). If I find it, I’ll post it.

]]> By: EdT. http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2011/01/29/reference-question-of-the-week-12311/#comment-2564 EdT. Sun, 24 Apr 2011 00:50:20 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=1266#comment-2564 HI! I’m the photographer who took the photo used in this post (not to worry, it’s OK – I licensed it under Creative Commons, and am not coming to gripe or anything.) I also suspect you saw a picture similar to this in “20000 Leagues Under the Sea”, as well as “Moby Dick” – unfortunately I can’t recall a book from my school days with a picture of the squid vs. whale (though like you I could *swear* I saw one somewhere.)

I suspect it will be difficult to figure out exactly which movie he was referring to, as the Giant Squid has been featured (in various forms) in several fiction works, as well as numerous cable TV shows over the past few years.

~EdT.

]]> By: Andy http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2011/01/29/reference-question-of-the-week-12311/#comment-2082 Andy Wed, 09 Feb 2011 04:00:36 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=1266#comment-2082 Meet “Molly the Mollusk” a 27-foot-long preserved giant squid http://www.mote.org/index.php?submenu=Exhibits&src=gendocs&ref=Aquarium%20Exhibits,%20Mollusk%20Hall&category=Aquarium.

]]> By: george http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2011/01/29/reference-question-of-the-week-12311/#comment-2081 george Thu, 03 Feb 2011 01:56:15 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=1266#comment-2081 I see that people have already said that there are such things as these …squid..and I just wanted to add that I first heard of them when I was a young un’ and I was browsing through the non-fiction section of my local library and I discovered this book, I believe was called ‘Monsters of the Deep’…it sufficiently terrified me enough that I am still afraid of the ocean…or Lake Michigan (sturgeon are creepy!). Thanks for posting this! Highly entertaining :)

]]> By: Erin http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2011/01/29/reference-question-of-the-week-12311/#comment-2080 Erin Tue, 01 Feb 2011 18:33:54 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=1266#comment-2080 That is too funny! I too am curious as to what movie he saw it in as well! It’s true though, what other profession would you bend over backwards for information – and enjoy it to boot ya know! Ah the curiosity of a child :)

]]> By: Andromeda http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2011/01/29/reference-question-of-the-week-12311/#comment-2079 Andromeda Tue, 01 Feb 2011 18:09:04 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=1266#comment-2079 I love the mere fact that the URL “http://squid.tepapa.govt.nz” exists. Is there an official US .gov squid URL? I want there to be.

]]> By: Denise http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2011/01/29/reference-question-of-the-week-12311/#comment-2078 Denise Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:09:30 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=1266#comment-2078 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea would be the movie I would guess, but there are giant squid in The Sphere, The Beast, and even in Rugrats Go Wild.

]]> By: Brian Herzog http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2011/01/29/reference-question-of-the-week-12311/#comment-2077 Brian Herzog Sun, 30 Jan 2011 14:32:41 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=1266#comment-2077 @Andromeda & @Amy: thanks to both of you. Another person (thank you Jim) sent me a link to http://squid.tepapa.govt.nz, the Colossal Squid exhibition at the Museum of New Zealand, which differentiates between the giant squid, colossal squid, and octopus.

]]> By: Amy L. Campbell http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2011/01/29/reference-question-of-the-week-12311/#comment-2076 Amy L. Campbell Sat, 29 Jan 2011 14:11:08 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=1266#comment-2076 This is not quite true. There is such a thing as the giant squid (Architeuthis) and the colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni). Not much is known about them since they appear rarely, but the boy would have been overjoyed to get this information and a book for his age group was published pretty recently called Here There Be Monsters: the Legendary Kraken and the Giant Squid. There may be other works, but I don’t know if they are age appropriate.

]]> By: Andromeda http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2011/01/29/reference-question-of-the-week-12311/#comment-2075 Andromeda Sat, 29 Jan 2011 13:56:01 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=1266#comment-2075 But there is such a thing as a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_squid and a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_Squid .

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