8.10.08 birthdays and ‘brary stories

Category: dribblings

happy birthday dad and kelly!

remember the book search from a couple of days ago? well we had another one yesterday. only that one was solved because the patron called someone (finally) to get the title. however, before she called someone we went ’round and ’round for 13 minutes like this:

lady: hey, i’m looking for a book that you have.

me: what’s the title?

lady: something about the marketing of America.

me: …okay.

so i do a few searches and nothing “sounds” right to her.

me: anything else about this book you could tell me?

lady: it’s new! it’s a new book and i’m positve that it has America in the title, Something of America.

me: and you’re sure we have it?

lady: yes, my husband saw it here and we talked about it last week and i wanted to check it out for him.

me: okay, i’m going to search all of the books we’ve catalogued in 2008 with America in the title.

so i do the search and nothing in the search is anything even close to being right. meanwhile one of my coworkers does a search on amazon and comes up with nil as well. the lady keeps insisting that it’s new and that we have it and that it has “of America” in the title. finally, after checking GPL’s online catalogue (i thought maybe she had seen the book there and not at ours) we can’t find anything that “sounds” right. she calls her husband.

i know. i thought maybe the husband was at work or somewhere he couldn’t be bothered or WHY ELSE WOULD YOU NOT HAVE CALLED HIM FIRST INSTEAD OF WASTING MY LIFE. but no, that’s part of my job.

she comes back all, “it’s called The Marketing of Evil.”

yeah, i know, there’s no America at all. and? it was published in 2005. not exactly a new one, right? i mean, compared to Dickens it’s new, but whatevs. i think this proves that our memory cannot be trusted.

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