{"id":4043,"date":"2015-02-28T13:30:51","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T11:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joke-archives.com\/?p=4043"},"modified":"2015-02-28T13:30:51","modified_gmt":"2015-02-28T11:30:51","slug":"real-questions-asked-of-librarians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/?p=4043","title":{"rendered":"Real Questions Asked of Librarians"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Do you have books here?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Do you have a list of all the books written in the English language?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Do you have a list of all the books I&#8217;ve ever read?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I&#8217;m looking for Robert James Waller&#8217;s book, &#8216;Waltzing through Grand Rapids&#8217;.&#8221; (Actual title wanted: &#8220;Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Do you have that book by Rushdie: &#8216;Satanic Nurses&#8217;?&#8221; (Actual title: &#8220;Satanic Verses&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Where is the reference desk?&#8221; This was asked of a person sitting at a desk who had, hanging above her head, a sign saying &#8220;REFERENCE DESK&#8221;!<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I was here about three weeks ago looking at a cookbook that cost $39.95. Do you know which one it is?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Which outlets in the library are appropriate for my hairdryer?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Can you tell me why so many famous Civil War battles were fought on National Park sites?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Do you have any books with photographs of dinosaurs?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I need a color photograph of George Washington [Christopher Columbus, King Arthur, Moses, Socrates, etc.]&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I need a photocopy of Booker T.  Washington&#8217;s birth certificate.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I need to find out Ibid&#8217;s first name for my bibliography.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Why don&#8217;t you have any books by Ibid?  He&#8217;s written a lot of important stuff.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I&#8217;m looking for information on carpal tunnel syndrome. I think I&#8217;m having trouble with it in my neck.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Is the basement upstairs?&#8221; (Asked at First Floor Reference Desk)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I am looking for a list of laws that I can break that would send me back to jail for a couple of months.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Do you have books here?&#8221; &#8220;Do you have a list of all the books written in the English language?&#8221; &#8220;Do you have a list of all the books I&#8217;ve ever read?&#8221; &#8220;I&#8217;m looking for Robert James Waller&#8217;s book, &#8216;Waltzing through Grand Rapids&#8217;.&#8221; (Actual title wanted: &#8220;Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend&#8221;) &#8220;Do you have that book [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[914],"class_list":["post-4043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts","tag-library"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}