Hi-ho, A Delgado here, reporting to you LIVE from a Wednesday evening at the reference desk. Things have been hopping here at work tonight, folks. Shazaam! It has been an evening of no crickets whatsoever. Well, I had a little bit of time to read my latest issue of American Libraries Direct but other than that, I've had questions. Most of them were about the InfoGame, our information literacy tutorial. I helped a student at the desk and over chat find sources on the medical economics of heart disease. We had fun with keywords (heart disease or cardiovascular disease) and (econom* and cost*). That turned into a subject search for cardiovascular disease AND medical economics OR medical care costs. I love you, subject terms! We found good articles in Academic Search Complete and CINAHL. Meanwhile, I helped another student find a book about heart surgery and had the usual questions of "What time do you close?" and even a "What's the last day to drop a 9-week class?"
Reading my issue of ALDirect made me sniff with sadness though, because I wasn't able to make it to ALA Annual this year. Sherman Alexie was there. John Irving was there talking about his new book I haven't read yet (I've been busy reading My Name is Not Easy by Debby Dahl Edwardson, but In One Person is on my To Read list on Goodreads!). Paula Poundstone was there. ALA Midwinter 2013 is in Seattle! Oh my gosh, cherished readers, I MUST GO!
And dang, since I started typing this, I've had TWO more reference questions. As my boss said when I took over the desk, "You'd never know it was summer!"
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