I was helping with Seeds of Compassion from 8:30 to 2:30 today, so I didn’t see a lot of reference action. I was asked a few questions by people viewing the panel discussions. Mostly they wanted to know about the panelists, so I directed them to the Seeds of Compassion website, which has information about he panelists.
Other questions on Tuesday:
- I’m looking for classics (Moby Dick, Tropic of Cancer, etc.) as audio books. Do you have them?
Strangely enough, SPL doesn’t have many classics as audio books (the only one we had was Tale of Two Cities). So we put in requests for them through Inter-Library Loan.
- Can you help me find pictures of that baby from the Roger Rabbit movie?
Sure. We did a Google image search for “Roger Rabbit baby” and found lots of pictures of Baby Herman. The patron subsequently wanted to find pictures of angels. I asked him some more questions and found that he was really looking for pictures of Cupid, so I showed him where we keep our Valentine’s Day books and he was happy.
- I’m meeting my boyfriend’s kids and I want a book that will help me do it right.
We looked up some books about step-parenting and went to browse the section. Luckily, there were some books on the shelf that appealed to the patron, notably one called Mom, There’s a Man in the Kitchen and He’s Wearing Your Robe, which was about parenting while dating. Even though it’s written for the parent and not the partner, we figured it would probably have useful information.
