National Yell At Your Librarian Day

[wizzard890]

+It should be no secret to most people that I am not exactly a fan of my university. The tuition is outrageous, the location is awful, the campus is a joke, and the art history department is an embarrassment

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[megkips]

Having worked the other end of the library in shelving and then catalogging in Italy, I can tell you that the missing books are always the worst because it's happening for two reasons: A) Some idiot staffer mishelved it or B) some idiot student put it back in the wrong spot.

Is there any way you can use Interlibrary Loan and get this stuff quick or find out who the borrowers are? If you can do the latter and they're in your department, that'll make life easier. I had to do this when my professor for Mary Magdalen was using the exact book I needed.

[wizzard890]

I'm pretty sure I know the grad student who has the Kristeva text. She's the person who always hogs all the horror/abjection/agency of the viewer scholarship, and I am going to get it from her. She has years to work on her dissertation. I have three months on this paper.

And as for the rest...I'm just going to bite the bullet and buy them all on Amazon Student. They'll be dirt cheap, ship in two days, and I know I'll use them later, especially if I continue working on this paper. But man, I wish I could get them right now!

[megkips]

Ugh, that's still annoying that you couldn't get them immediately and you have to spend money. :\ I'd say wait and see if any of it comes up either checked in or is missing and then returned, but the missing ones can be months or sometimes year (by which point it will have been replaced and everyone feels VERY stupid.)

[sekrit_omg]

Two things:

1. Recall.
2. Interlibrary Loan.

This happens at every single library, no matter how big, well-funded, or well-run. There are a lot of books and people want to use them.

[wizzard890]

This is true! And I understand that. I just have a lot of scholarship to comb through, and not a whole lot of time. I wouldn't mind so much if a few of these were gone. But they're all out. It's frustrating.

[sekrit_omg]

I know, it just ... happens. Recall everything. You'll get it in like two weeks, unless someone's really a dick. Also, by this logic, you may be doing the same exact thing to some other person. I guess, as far as dissertations go, getting some chapter done now might save someone a year, whereas your paper will be over in May (or whatever) no matter how good or bad it is.

[wizzard890]

I think in the end, I'm just going to buy them all off Amazon. As a student I get free shipping, and I know I'll use the texts again. I don't like the idea of snatching them back from somebody who's using them. (Not a stranger who's using them, at least. >_>)

[wizzard890]

This paper is going to be the sexiest thing I have ever written.

...well okay that's a lie.

The sexiest academic thing I have ever written.

[wizzard890]

Dude, the agony is the sexy. Or part of it, at any rate.

But if we're talking dentists...You will like the bits about the questions of audience, then, and vicarious experience of the pain we inflict.

[wizzard890]

I haven't! But I'll absolutely look it up! I'm at that stage in the paper where I'm tracking down each and every lead, so this might come in handy! =D

[catgirlprime]

I don't suppose your library has a loan system with other libraries? :/ It's ridiculous that it would be so poorly managed, especially with the missing books.

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