Some people really do some shelving by color!
The New England School of Law's Library has had so many people come in
asking for a book only knowing it's color they have done an index of their
reference room by color.
The site seems to be down now, but we had more than a few interesting
comments.
http://www.lisnews.com/article.php3?sid=20000426131543
We also have a librarian humor section:
http://www.lisnews.com/Librarian_Humor.php3
The site is being quite troublesome today, so if you pay us a visit and get
some crazy error messages don't be surprised.
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Blake Carver
LISNews.com
Librarian and Information Science News
http://www.lisnews.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Lininger" <tss003@MAIL.CONNECT.MORE.NET>
> Library Patron: "I remember back when I was a kid, you used to have this
> big red book, you used to keep it over there . . . I don't remember the
> title or the author. Do you still have it?"
>
> My fantasy reply: "Why, yes, we shelve all the books by color; we have
> only about 500 red ones, so it should take us no more than a few hours to
> thumb through them all and find the one you want . . .
> provided we still have it."
>
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