Today in the life of a Special Collections Librarian (x-post)

[kivrin]

DEAF-AS-A-POST GENEALOGIST: (Brandishing a call slip.) The fella out there couldn't find this Zelley family collection 428, but I seen it on the internet!

ME: On our w-

DAAPG: Eh?

ME: ON OUR W- (DAAPG leans in close enough that I can see down his shirt and surmise that he is part werewolf.) ON OUR WEBSITE?

DAAPG: No! No, I went to your hysterical-society-dot-org site and I seen these (waves other call slips) but the Zelley one was not on your dot-org. But I saw it! Sometime in the last month I seen a reference to Zelley family collection 428. Somewhere on the internet.

ME: (silently) Well, sir, I'll just print out the Internet and you can look for it. (aloud) Let me take a look in our manuscripts database.