Look It Up

Look It Up!

  1. A list of items such as books, periodicals, maps and/or videos arranged in a defined order. The list usually records, describes and indexes the resources of a collection, a library or a group of libraries.¹
  2. The thing that graduate students claim they have never heard of nor used in their entire educational experience; which is why they come to the circulation desk day after day to ask how to find a book.
  3. The only thing on God’s green Earth a patron will claim they don’t understand as we search the OPAC for them.

(1) http://library.boisestate.edu/Reference/BBRIN/jargon.htm

I love this picture. I think many librarians and library staff enjoy the hard arse attitude portrayed in the image. Yeah, we bad, we bad, we know it!