Free turkey with every checkout November 23, 1999
Posted by Library Answer Person in : Uncategorized , add a commentSome grocery stores give away pumkin pies or cranberries. To complete my Thanksgiving meal, will you give me a turkey?
ANSWER PERSON RESPONDS: See:
http://webclipart.about.com/internet/webclipart/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Pointe/8961/ThanksgivingDirectory.html
And have a Happy Thanksgiving!
(On our budget you were expecting more?)
The Independent in the Perkins Foyer November 18, 1999
Posted by Library Answer Person in : Uncategorized , add a commentI know the Perkins Foyer is a good place to find campus publications such as the Chronicle and the Dialogue. At one time I remember even the Duke Review could be found in the Perkins Foyer — a publication that was unaffilitiated with Duke. The Bryan Center performs a similar service. But unlike the Bryan Center, one can never find distribution of the Independent in the Perkins Foyer. Could you contact the Independent and ask them to include Perkins as a drop off site?
ANSWER PERSON RESPONDS: What a newsworthy suggestion! I’ll send this on to someone who has experience with these things, and maybe something can be arranged.
Belgian Bibliography? November 11, 1999
Posted by Library Answer Person in : Uncategorized , add a commentWhy do we have an ERL database that is only in French and Flemish? This database is costing us money so that one professor can have what he/she wants. Please get rid of it and use the money to purchase something the students would like
ANSWER PERSON RESPONDS: The Duke University libraries comprise the largest research library in the Southeast, including subscriptions to about 150 web-based databases, as well as thousands of CD-ROMs. The key is that as a major research library we support specialized but important areas of study, many of which are not of interest to the population at large, but are vital to the nature of the institution as a whole. If we were to limit ourselves to only those topics and databases that everyone is interested in, and only in English at that, Duke would not be a pre-eminent university.
For further information about this specific resources, you should speak with our bibliographer for Western European studies, Helene Baumann, (660-5847; helene.baumann@duke.edu).
You’re doing an excellent job! November 8, 1999
Posted by Library Answer Person in : Uncategorized , add a commentKeep it up.
ANSWER PERSON RESPONDS: Thanx!
Purchase of Books November 8, 1999
Posted by Library Answer Person in : Uncategorized , add a commentEvery time one wants to suggest a purchase, one has to fill up the personal data. Please have button to ask whether there are any more suggestions for purchase and if the answer is yes, bring back the form with the personal data.
Thanks
ANSWER PERSON RESPONDS: Good idea. It is often helpful to keep requests separate (such as when some may already be here, or on order, or when notifications of arrivals have to be made), but your approach would maintain that option. I’ll pass it on to the appropriate web page guru.
