WorldCat = love.
Mar. 19th, 2007 02:40 pmI was checking overdue notices on the computer this morning in the ILL office. (I love how every time I go in there I get to do something different. It's great.) I ran into one from Calcasieu Parish Public Library, and immediately thought, "That has to be...yeah, Louisiana. How did I know." Ah, Louisiana, you and your Frenchness.
It's kind of fascinating to see where in the country/world all these materials for our patrons come from. We seem to get about 30% from libraries in Florida, at least out of the ones I've processed. Most of the rest come from nearish states (Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky, West Virginia, North Carolina), and there's an occasional oddball from somewhere like Wisconsin or California. And there's all the Project Athena stuff from university libraries in the state. Sometimes the locations are more interesting than the books themselves. (We seem to be having a run on cookbooks and math/physics texts at the moment.)
Anyway, that was my morning. Well, that and trying to get a possessed stapler to work. And I did it all with the chorus of "Northwest Passage" running through my head. Thank you sooooo much, due South. *glares*
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theusual, a quote for you I forgot to mention in an earlier post: "Ha! Danger. As if those pencil-necked geeks in Industry, Trade and Commerce would know danger if it jumped up and pierced their spleen with an ice pick." - Meg Thatcher, "Mountie Sings the Blues"
I thought you might appreciate that.
It's kind of fascinating to see where in the country/world all these materials for our patrons come from. We seem to get about 30% from libraries in Florida, at least out of the ones I've processed. Most of the rest come from nearish states (Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky, West Virginia, North Carolina), and there's an occasional oddball from somewhere like Wisconsin or California. And there's all the Project Athena stuff from university libraries in the state. Sometimes the locations are more interesting than the books themselves. (We seem to be having a run on cookbooks and math/physics texts at the moment.)
Anyway, that was my morning. Well, that and trying to get a possessed stapler to work. And I did it all with the chorus of "Northwest Passage" running through my head. Thank you sooooo much, due South. *glares*
Speaking of which,
theusual, a quote for you I forgot to mention in an earlier post: "Ha! Danger. As if those pencil-necked geeks in Industry, Trade and Commerce would know danger if it jumped up and pierced their spleen with an ice pick." - Meg Thatcher, "Mountie Sings the Blues"I thought you might appreciate that.
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