I'm cleaning out old bits of my email, and I found a link to a CCC video on copyright. A bit odd, but very useful in delineating basic rights.

Look, Amazon sellers, I know that the book is from 1999 so that there's really no "new" option. Buyer beware, and all that, if I buy using the "new" option ( Read more... )

BF's company has their holiday party every January, to coincide with the quarterly Sales Meeting. It was this past Friday, and this year's entertainment was to take us all to the Improv in downtown San Jose to see some comedian's ( Read more... )

I've got a requester who's absconded with an ILL copy of Principles of Criminal Law.

*head hits desk*

At least they try to amuse me with their mofoness, no?

Dear client ( Read more... )

A lot of companies donate their paper collections to Universities. I've got a requester who wants 4 technical reports from the collection ( Read more... )

I was changing water bottles in the kitchen when I had a discussion with a co-worker, who's had surgeries in the past ( Read more... )

List of things I do not need to see at work:

A) Full color pictures of nasty dermatologic face wounds in color. Nasty.

Things I'm sure people don't want to do:

A) Have such a fascinating case study for nasty dermatologic face wounds that their doctor wants to take pictures and write a study using them.

Today's word for the day is "Arşiv" aka Archive in Turkish. Brought to you by the letters A, the number 3, and the journal "Kulak Burun Boğaz İhtisas Dergisi", which is a bloody mess to find when you're a non-native speaker of Turkish.

I need a document from Iraq, which I can't locate anywhere. I'll need to contact the Iraqi National Library. It feels... wrong to contact them for something so (seemingly) trival as an article from a geological journal ( Read more... )