Stupid (but Real) Librarian Stories
As exciting as today's winning web page sounds, it actually lives up to the hype.
The web is famous for its true stories about everything known to man, and even things that most men don't want to know. This page (located on the Librarian Avengers website), has some of those unspeakable, previously-unknown tidbits of real-life experience from those mythical figures known as "librarians".
And some dang amusing stuff. Here's a sample:
Who: CJ Bryant
Where: Birmingham, Alabama
I was new on the job in a hospital library and one of the staff called and wanted to know what a jellyfish's thing looked like. It's a Southern hospital, she actually said 'thang'... I was taken aback. I had no idea how jellyfish replicated, but suspected they didn't HAVE a thang.
I remembered seeing an ad once in the back of 'Science' for a poster titled "Penises of the Animal Kingdom" and was thinking I should have ordered it at some time. Then it struck me how absurd it all was so I did what a good librarian does and did a reference interview...I said "why do you need to know?" and she said that the patient had a lesion on his thigh and they wanted to know if it was a jellyfish STING...:)
If this isn't the best of the web, what is?
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