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Ok, as long as we are sharing stories, I'll get my nerve up to tell one on myself. I had moved to Memphis several years ago to start a job as children's librarian at Memphis Public Library. I was working at the Poplar-White Station branch, which was a large branch in a busy commerical area. My desk was the first one people saw when they entered the door, so they usually came to me first and I had to direct them to where they really needed to go. One day, a girl of about 11 and her younger brother approached my desk and said they needed a book on muscadine. I, having lived in the South a very short time and having never HEARD of a muscadine, said, "Sure! I'll help you!" Now, you know the last thing a librarian wants to do is resort to using the card catalog - I mean we know our collections, right? And we KNOW that Dewey Decimal system!! So, I headed off to the shelves to look for what, in my mind, was spelled muskodyne and went straight to the 567's and began looking in the dinosaur books! I looked for single volumes, brontosaurus, tyrannosaurus, but no muskodyne, so I began looking through indexes of thicker books, thinking it was probably one of the lesser know varieties. Finally, after several minutes of waiting patiently, the little girl cleared her throat and politely and tactfully said, "Um, I think it's a grape! My mother wants to make some jelly." "Oh-ho!" I laughed! And headed off to the 641's and found muscadine recipes right away! Well, I must say, I laughed harder than she did. But now, whenever anyone asks me what someone else might think of as a ridiculous reference question, I don't laugh, because I've "been there, done that!" Another time I spent probably 15 minutes looking for a poem for a girl named "In a garden", when what she really wanted was "Enoch Arden." Suby Wallace Library/Media Center Nettleton Intermediate Center (5-6 grades) 3801 Vera Jonesboro, AR 72401 501-932-5650 e-mail: swallace@nic.crsc.k12.ar.us or swallace @nettleton.crsc.k12.ar.us