Reference Question of the Week – 8/31/14
September 6th, 2014
Earlier this week, a coworker at our circulation desk sent me this message:
A patron came to the desk last night and asked where the last 6 months of Skeptical Inquirer were. He said they're never there except the new one. Did we have a blip in circulation?
It turns out that this is a bi-monthly magazine, and the issue the patron wanted was checked out. All of our copies were accounted for, but since there are fewer issues than a monthly magazine, it just seemed like more were missing than actually were.
But: this patron had doubts and that led him to ask a question - do you know what makes him? A Skeptical Inquirer!
It's things like this that make being a librarian worthwhile.
Tags: libraries, Library, magazine, periodicals, public, Random, Reference Question, si, skeptical inquirer
September 7th, 2014 at 11:01 am
Ba-dum, ching!