Annette's Library Tales

Select a Story

• "Do you have any state forms?"
• Reference Questions
• "May I have your free magazines"
• The Book Slasher
• The Wired Lady
• Mother and Child
• Rodney
  Smitherspoon IV
• "Where is the man I came in with?"
• "Won't you go out with me?"
• Mrs. H
• The Runaway

Reference Questions

As librarians our job is to help people with reference questions. Some of them can be rather crazy. The following are some samples:

• What is the capital of Africa?
  
  
• I don’t want that book on bugs I want a book on insects.
  
  
• Do you have a book by this “arthur?” (meaning “author”)
  
  
• Can you help me find a book that I read last year?  It had the word Rose in it and it was a blue book and about so tall.
  
  
• I have to write a report on ancient civilizations.  Do you have a book on the ancient African-American civilization?
  
  
• What is Donald Duck’s middle name?
  
  
• What are the effects of quantum physics on life in the 90’s?
  
  
• How many dimples does a golf ball have?
  
  
• What is the name of the first fireman that got killed in the great Chicago fire?