Do you remember when you discovered the Reader's Guide, or the National Geographic Index? To realize that there was a tool for getting at the wealth of information in periodicals without simply flipping through back issues or trying to remember where I had read something. The most difficult thing I have to teach, is that to find an article on a topic, randomly flipping through bound journals is not the best way to go about it. Then of course there is the lying. Why, if I ask a question for clarification "Are you looking for a specific article you know exists, or just any article on this topic" would someone lie to me? Only after I can't find the specific article they claim to be looking for, to they admit that anything on that topic would do. Why?

"I've been a student here for three years, but I've never used the library." need I say more?

This is just a tangent blog where I can relay funny, heartwarming, informative, or infurating stories from the reference desk. Like the time I had to explain to a nursing student that wet nurses were not, in fact nurses. Or the guy who asked if we had any books that would be of interest to third and fourth year medical students (we're a medical library), when I replied "yes", he asked where they were located. I could only respond "all over the library!"