The librarian who staffs the reference desk can usually do the following by virtue of their professional training and experience:

* The librarian can look up a brief, factual answer to a specific question.

* The librarian can briefly teach the user how to use the catalogue and how to use its advanced features, or recommend the proper subject words or terms that are used in the catalogue for the topic the user has in mind.

* The librarian can often take the library user directly to the shelves with books on a certain topic without using the catalogue.

* The librarian is familiar with the contents of hundreds of reference books, and can recommend books that might contain the answer to a particular question.

* The librarian can teach the library user to use online databases such as magazine and newspaper articles, and recommend words and search strategies for the topic the user has in mind.

* The librarian can recommend reliable web sites, give advice on searching the Internet for information, and evaluate the reliability of the information on web sites.

* If the library doesn't have information on a given topic, or if the library user wants more information, the librarian can refer the library user to another library or to an organization that can be contacted by phone or mail.

In a more subtle homage, the PC game Fallout Tactics includes a librarian in a desolate world who wants the player to find his missing glasses so he can read his books.

A detailed survey of the controversy can be found in Douglas Yeo's 2004 edition of the " Haydn " piece ( ISMN M-57015-175-1 ).</ ref > In 1870, Brahms's friend Carl Ferdinand Pohl, the librarian of the Vienna Philharmonic Society, who was working on a Haydn biography at the time, showed Brahms a transcription he had made of a piece attributed to Haydn titled Divertimento No. 1.

The cast of characters includes the spoiled Swiss milkmaid incarnation Heidi, her doting mother Cornelia, her brother Whit, Kate's not-so-secret unwanted admirer, and Pogo, a librarian who can only speak in nursery rhymes.

Patrons can use the West Florida Public Library website to search the library's catalog, submit reference questions to a librarian, reserve West Florida Public Library materials, and request materials from libraries across the country via interlibrary loan.

" How can I thank you for such a wonderful day ... if any schools would like verification of their value for money, just point them our way .... this was one day that we will talk about for a long time to come " ( Jane Scott, librarian, Hilbre High School, The Wirral ), " Thank you sincerely for yesterday-you were terrific and genuinely " took the place by storm " in the nicest possible way.

All the functions performed by a trained librarian employed in the reference section of a library to meet the information needs of patrons ( in person, by telephone, or electronically ), including but not limited to answering substantive questions, instructing users in the selection and use of appropriate tools and techniques for finding information, conducting searches on behalf of the patron, directing users to the location of library resources, assisting in the evaluation of information, referring patrons to resources outside the library when appropriate, etc.

of De Boor's edition ) was made by the papal librarian Anastasius from the chronicles of Patriarch Nicephorus, George Syncellus, and Theophanes for the use of a deacon named Johannes in the second half of the ninth century, and thus was known to Western Europe.

Stanley Pargellis, the fifth Newberry librarian ( 1942 – 1962 ), broadened the library's mission, launching scholarly outreach programs ( such as fellowships, conferences, and the Newberry Library Bulletin ) to publicize the library's holdings and encourage their use.

At that time there was no facility for independent study in the north of England and Chetham's will of 1651 had stipulated that the Library should be ' for the use of schollars and others well affected ', and instructed the librarian ' to require nothing of any man that cometh into the library '.

Having once tried to use the Language & Literature Library for an unofficial photo session, he was asked to leave by the librarian who did not know who he was.

He was taught how to use the astrolabe by Sarcephalus ( Christopher Hauptfleisch ), a librarian in Breslau ( Wrocław ).

* Oracle ( Barbara Gordon )-Offered the use of her legs again, invulnerability and powers to rival Superman's if she would become his librarian, while her soul was hers to keep.

To further illustrate her opinion that there was no discrimination in regard to sex in the American Library Association, she refers to Miss Caroline M. Hewins, librarian of the Hartford Public Library, who was the first woman to ask a question before a meeting of the American Library Association in 1877, the association ’ s second meeting, and Miss Mary A. Bean, the librarian of the Brookline Public Library, who was the first woman to appear on a library program, by reading a paper on “ The evil of unlimited freedom in the use of juvenile fiction ” in the 1879 meeting in Boston.

She was the first librarian of the library, and in 1960 requested that the Library be named for Dr. Weaver, a prominent black citizen who allowed local young people to use his private library.

He was assistant librarian of Harvard University from 1856 to 1872, and planned and perfected an alphabetical card catalog, combining many of the advantages of the ordinary dictionary catalogs with the grouping of the minor topics under more general heads, which is characteristic of a systematic catalogue.

The first librarian of record was Claude Mallet, the king's valet de chambre, who made a sort of catalogue, Inventoire des Livres du Roy nostre Seigneur estans au Chastel du Louvre.

After Aylesworth Perry was appointed as acting librarian in 1881 he prepared the catalogue of reference works on geology, mineralogy, metallurgy, chemistry and natural history.

In a volume of his autobiography, Little Wilson and Big God ( 1987 ) he recounted his seduction by a librarian in the card catalogue.

* c. 93, 800 manuscripts ; the catalogue is the work of librarian Johann Andreas Schmeller ( 1785 – 1852 ).

He was for several years librarian of the John Carter Brown library and collated an exhaustive catalogue which was published in four volumes.

He asked the librarian how to find such a man.

Seldon asked Las Zenow, chief librarian of the Library of Trantor to undertake a search to find a suitable planet, according to Seldon's criteria.

Il Bibliotecario (" The Librarian "): a peculiar comic strip made always of two-frames variations on the same theme: in the first the librarian greets an unnamed elderly woman with a flowery and archaic sentence and the woman will ask for an impossibly difficult to find ancient book, such as the " Gabinetto Armonico " of Filippo Bonanni.

As dawn breaks, the Story Maker takes his or her leave (" Dawn is upon us, the morning is nigh, we've made our stories, so we bid you goodbye ") and disappears, Jelly and Jackson hide, and the story machine turns back into a computer, but the books produced overnight remain for the librarian and children to find when the library opens in the morning.

Inside, he meets Dracula's servant Death, who warns him to stop his quest to destroy the castle ; Maria, a seventeen-year-old vampire hunter on a quest to find Richter ; and the castle's librarian, who sells him various items and equipment.

In 1832 he finally decided to leave Novi Sad and tried to find a teacher or librarian job in Russia, but again without success.

Here, he is met by Mr. Dewey ( Christopher Lloyd ), an eccentric librarian who tries to find a book for Richard and gives him a library card.

That night, he dreams of going to Clementinum library, where one of the books contains God within a single letter on one of the pages, which the old, bitter librarian has been unable to find despite looking for most of his life.

West characterizes librarian. net as generally " anti-censorship, pro-freedom of speech, pro-porn ( for lack of a better way to explain that we don't find the naked body shameful ), antiglobalization, anti-outsourcing, anti-Dr. Laura, pro-freak, pro-social responsibility, and just generally pro-information and in favor of the profession getting a better image.

Unable to find a job, for five years he was working as a librarian in a family estate of his family's friends, the Chrebtowicze family.

I no longer collect a paycheck as a librarian, but my library training helps me find out what people wore, what jokes they told, how they insulted each other, what they ate, how they amused themselves, what diseases laid them low and how they tried to cure them.

Some treat CM as being similar to a librarian activity, and break out change control or change management as a separate or stand alone discipline.

Diane Cilento was lured out of semi-retirement after Shaffer saw her on the stage to play the town's schoolmistress, and Ingrid Pitt ( another British horror film veteran ) was cast as the town librarian and registrar.

His father was a lumber merchant, later branching out into other commodities while his mother was a librarian.

In spring 1958, however, Witten's friend Thomas Marston, a Yale librarian, acquired from London book dealer Irving Davis a dilapidated medieval copy of volume 3 of Vincent of Beauvais's encyclopedic Speculum historiale (" Historical Mirror "), which turned out to be the missing link ; the wormholes showing that it had formerly had the map at its beginning and the Relation at its end.

William Tuckwell included 18 of these quatrains in his Reminiscences in 1900, but they all came out only in 1939, thanks to Walter George Hiscock, an Oxford librarian, who issued them personally then and in a second edition in 1955.

He became librarian successively to the French Directory, to the Conseil d ' Etat, and in 1807 to Napoleon, from whom he carried out a number of commissions.

The new librarian, a Mr Thynne, resigned in favour of Bentley, on condition that he receive an annuity of £ 130 for life out of the £ 200 salary.

Others, such as Lucullus, took on the role of librarian by lending out scrolls in their collection to those who lacked the means to have their own collections.

The role of librarian was often filled by an overseer of the scriptorium where monks would copy out books cover to cover.

Musial also credited his school librarian Helen Kloz for pointing out that baseball was his dream and advising him to pursue it professionally.

Sid Reedy, a University City librarian who had been an Alpha Phi Alpha brother at Lincoln University as well, told Garrison that after becoming fascinated by the case in the late 1970s he had sought out Lorenzo Greene, Gaines ' mentor at Lincoln University and an esteemed civil rights activist and intellectual.

With her father ’ s legal business suffering during the Great Depression and her husband out of work, she worked as a librarian and a school teacher to support her family.

" I remember as a young child with some of my brothers and sisters and first cousins going down to the public library trying to get library cards, trying to check some books out, and we were told by the librarian that the library was for whites only and not for " coloreds.

" He states, " I don't know a jazzman who hasn't owned, borrowed, or Xeroxed pages from a Real Book at least once in his career ," and he quotes John Voigt, Berklee's music librarian, " The Real Book came out around 1971.

It was a question from MacLeish ’ s daughter, Mimi, which led him to realize that, “ Nothing is more difficult for the beginning librarian than to discover what profession he was engaged .” Mimi, his daughter, had inquired about what her daddy was to do all day, “… hand out books ?” MacLeish created his own job description and set out to learn about how the library was currently organized.

Brett, who was then head librarian, happened to pass by and overhear this exchange, and immediately offered to have someone go purchase another copy of the book for Eastman to check out.

The poet Philip Larkin described Wellington as a ' hole of toad's turds ' and stated that his job as town librarian was to ' hand out tripey novels to morons '.

There are three common ways of arranging stationary bookcases: flat against the wall ; in stacks or ranges parallel to each other with merely enough space between to allow of the passage of a librarian ; or in bays or alcoves, where cases jut out into the room at right angles to the wall-cases.

But they did not get basically unknown librarian Regina Seltzer out of the Democratic race for the 2000 Congressional nomination.

In March, 1999, librarian Lucy Dudko hired a helicopter supposedly to check out the upcoming Olympic site in Sydney.

The News & Observer newspaper's nickname, " The N & O ," gave the site its name, presented online as NandO or Nando, apparently after the newspaper's News Library staff pointed out that the ampersand would create difficultes in database construction and so coined the title of NandO, according to Teresa Leonard, chief librarian of The News & Observer.

During construction of the original building, the Calgary Library Board sought out a librarian to oversee the opening of its new library.

The librarian turns out to be his long-hidden uncle, Monsieur Huguenin.