with great power comes great responsibility

[vidensadastra]

So a little over six months ago (which means now I qualify for paid sick time!) I switched from working in an academic library to working in a public library. I was happy with the switch for lots of reasons--I am apparently kind of a weirdo librarian in that more reference work makes me really, really happy--but one thing that this changed is that

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[stephanieburgis]

That book sounds fascinating! Sadly, it's not available at my library through interlibrary loan & it's too expensive to buy, but now I've got one of his pop-history books on my Amazon wishlist, Martyrs and Murderers: The Guise Family and the Making of Europe. Really glad to have another historical nonfiction author to look out for!

[merriehaskell]

*adds two books to the to-read pile*

LOVE the Guises. Love them. In that, "wouldn't have wanted to be related to them" kind of way.

[vidensadastra]

How strange that it's harder to ILL that one on your side of the pond than mine, when it's an Oxford Press book! But then I have no idea how your local ILL system works. Mind you, I'm starting to think I should have gone with Martyrs and Murderers myself. *g*

[merriehaskell]

Theoretically, European libraries do not have the same views on ILL as American libraries. :-/

[merriehaskell]

Can you go visit the ILLians under the guise of "What can we do in reference to make your lives easier wrt to patron education about ILL?"

I mean. It's not like I dream that would happen to us or anything.

*wistful*

[vidensadastra]

Given that ILL requests are only available as a paper form from a reference librarian, I suspect there is, ahem, a deliberate effort in place to limit demand. Alas.

(When I worked in the academic library, I talked it up like CRAZY. I told students that it was magic every chance I got.)