Comments on: Reference Question of the Week – 9/25/11 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2011/10/01/reference-question-of-the-week-92511/ or, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Fear and Loathing at a Public Library Reference Desk Thu, 23 May 2013 18:19:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Brian Herzog http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2011/10/01/reference-question-of-the-week-92511/#comment-4896 Brian Herzog Fri, 28 Oct 2011 02:29:59 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=2548#comment-4896 @Ellen: you’re right, it is very rare that I actually see someone reunited with a lost item (but I do enjoy that feeling).

]]> By: Ellen Knowlton http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2011/10/01/reference-question-of-the-week-92511/#comment-4894 Ellen Knowlton Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:59:31 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=2548#comment-4894 I bet the dragon costume was left at the library because the person wanted to get rid of it and decided to “forget” it at the library.

Have you ever noticed how people are always looking for something you haven’t found, but the stuff you find left in the library is never claimed? Weird! And how can you leave your keys at the library but still drive home and enter your house?

]]> By: Brian Herzog http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2011/10/01/reference-question-of-the-week-92511/#comment-4139 Brian Herzog Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:57:25 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=2548#comment-4139 @Jen, I think @Stephanie just gave you a solution – barcode it and loan it out.

]]> By: Stephanie Willen Brown http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2011/10/01/reference-question-of-the-week-92511/#comment-4138 Stephanie Willen Brown Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:15:39 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=2548#comment-4138 A colleague in a science library was initially flummoxed by the number of fancy calculators left in her library. After a period of time (not sure how long), she simply bar-coded them and added them to the collection. Now other patrons can check them out!

]]> By: Jen http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2011/10/01/reference-question-of-the-week-92511/#comment-4065 Jen Thu, 06 Oct 2011 22:30:56 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=2548#comment-4065 It was never claimed.

]]> By: Brian Herzog http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2011/10/01/reference-question-of-the-week-92511/#comment-4040 Brian Herzog Tue, 04 Oct 2011 02:41:19 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=2548#comment-4040 @Jen: I don’t understand how people can leave stuff like that behind – or why they bring it to the library in the first place. Did they come to claim it?

]]> By: Jen http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2011/10/01/reference-question-of-the-week-92511/#comment-4039 Jen Mon, 03 Oct 2011 17:50:35 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=2548#comment-4039 We once had a Chinese dancing dragon costume left. You know the kind where you need several people to wear it. . .

]]> By: Christina http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2011/10/01/reference-question-of-the-week-92511/#comment-4038 Christina Mon, 03 Oct 2011 14:07:34 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=2548#comment-4038 Wow, what a memory that patron has (NOT!). We just had a laptop left overnight, and knew the family name of the owner because the screen said “Blahblah Family” and required a password, but we didn’t have any patrons in our catalog with the right last name. The next morning the woman came in asking us for it. It boggles my mind that people can forget something as valuable (and large!) as a laptop.

]]> By: Brian Herzog http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2011/10/01/reference-question-of-the-week-92511/#comment-4037 Brian Herzog Mon, 03 Oct 2011 13:29:25 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=2548#comment-4037 I know, right? Who knows how many he’s left somewhere else, too.

]]> By: Chris http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2011/10/01/reference-question-of-the-week-92511/#comment-4034 Chris Sun, 02 Oct 2011 13:51:54 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=2548#comment-4034 Who leaves TWO laptops in a library in a little over a year?!?

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