Jan 25, 2008
{ I guess nobody has been keeping up with this blog, eh? }
-ExcellentHoly Crap.
Having to do reference work is strange. I had a female patron ask me where we had moved the Thesaurus’. I don’t think we did move them….. but I showed her where they are shelved. We have about ten different ones, and I showed her the two that I thought are easiest to use. No problem. “Thank you this will work fine.”
About ten minutes later she came back up to the desk with a Thesaurus in her hand. “Isn’t there a book that has, like, words that mean the same thing as another word?”
“A book of synonyms?”
“Words that mean the same thing but they’re different words.”
“Yeah. The Thesaurus.”
“No. But this doesn’t have the right words in it. They’re just lists of words that define the word. They aren’t the right words.”
And she proceeded to argue with me about the Thesaurus for another ten minutes.
And someone asked me to look up their bank account routing number. Sure. Let me just write down your credit card number and security code while we’re at it.
Labels: back account, dumbass, reference, routing number, synonym, Thesaurus, words
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