Comments on: Open Access and the reference librarian

By: Linda N

Linda N — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:51:55 +0000

And high fives to you for this post! I love it! Describes my reference desk habits and thoughts perfectly. Tell me, how did you know?! Ha!

By: Andrea V.

Andrea V. — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:42:43 +0000

Thank you for a great, vindicating post! (I’m a pathologically helpful children’s librarian.)

By: Colleen

Colleen — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:33:26 +0000

Hmm, “pathologically helpful.” I like that far better than “the crazy reference lady who wouldn’t let me leave.”

By: Steve Lawson

Steve Lawson — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 04:28:42 +0000

*High fives Bess and Jessy.*

And once my friend Jenny is done boggling at the non-University of California hellhole the rest of us live in, I’m sure she’ll be willing to email us all PDFs on the Q.T.

By: Jessy

Jessy — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 23:05:05 +0000

Yeah man.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 19:17:07 +0000

Wait, you mean there are libraries where you don’t subscribe to everything published in the universe? ::boggle::

By: Bess

Bess — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 14:59:14 +0000

I love this post! And I am saying that “OA should prosper so that reference librarians can feel good and get high-fives at the reference desk” because if a patron is high-fiving you it’s because they are happy and their needs have been met, and really what else are we here for but to make that happen?