Okay, now that I've dispensed with the poor me post, here are some cool things that happened this week at the library.
First, I was on desk with the seasoned tech librarian on the music floor of the library. A patron called in and at first got my colleague. It was clear from the side of the conversation that I heard that the patron was not making much sense.
He was asking if we had the CD of a song, but he didn't know the name of the song, the artist, release year, or any lyrics, just the melody. My desk buddy was very thorough in his reference interview but alas, did not have enough information to guess the song. So he politely asked the man to call back with more information.
I found out later that the patron had also called down to telephone info. While my desk buddy was talking with our telephone info librarian about that, the patron called in again. This time I got him, and though still very hard to understand, he'd called prepared. He actually held the phone to the speaker as I searched the lyrics of the song. Unfortunately, we did not have a CD with the particular song, but we did have a few compilation CDs with the artist's other music and that sufficed.
Then, I had a lady who wanted to get Scott's The Sorceress on her tablet. Unfortunately, the tablet had a memory problem and kept crashing. So I got her a paper copy. The cool part was how excited she was about the book. I went out and purchased the first book in the series (The Immortal Nicholas Flamel) The Alchemyst just on her say so. And I am highly impressed and engrossed so far.
Finally, something I am excited about. My reading world is almost entirely inhabited with juvenile and YA fiction books, what with it being Summer Reading Program season. I just found out that Rick Riordan added a Percy Jackson/ Kane Chronicles short story called The Son of Sobek to the recent paperback release of The Serpent's Shadow. I am a crossover junkie. And Riordan has said that the next book in his Roman mythology series will be coming out in October. So now, I'm squeeing like the rabid fan girl I am.
