Requests from the Children's Desk

I'm a youth services librarian at a medium-sized library in the thumb of Michigan. This is a blog to explore what goes on here as I navigate children and adults.

Wednesday, July 19, 2017

Things have changed!

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As you can see things have changed! I've moved on from the Reference Desk to Youth Services. My MLIS was in Youth Services and Adminis...

Tuesday, December 3, 2013

We are not omniscient...

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Yes, I can usually track down a city-person's phone number if you have the address (using the Polk directory & address lookup). If ...

Monday, December 2, 2013

Demonology

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Books on demonology are much like demons themselves...very scarce. They go missing, patrons hide them, pages go missing... So, every time...

Monday, July 15, 2013

Books on Machiavelli

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I had a patron come in today asking for books written by Machiavelli. Did more than a handful of searches, and only 3 books came up. Two w...

Monday, July 8, 2013

There's a special place in hell...

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For people who write/draw in library books. Especially in pen. Like the book on Alzheimer's I found. New book, just a year old. Lot...

Saturday, July 6, 2013

You have study rooms for rent?

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We do...but not for instrument practice. Now, if you were just learning how to read music, that'd be one thing. But actually practicin...

Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Can I just take this?

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I had a patron call about a needlepoint book she had out. She wanted to know if she could just remove the patterns in the back of the book ...

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