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Re: strange reference requests



When I was just a pup and was working at my first archival job, the pastor
of the church I had started attending, impressed to have a new,
"professional" visitor, announced before the entire congregation that "we
have a visitor today who works with dirty, old books". Raised a few eyebrows
in church that day.

Russell P. Baker, CA
Arkansas History Commission and State Archives
One Capitol Mall
Little Rock, AR 72201
501-682-6900
www.ark-ives.com
russell.baker@mail.state.ar.us <mailto:russell.baker@mail.state.ar.us>


-----Original Message-----
From: Roy Webb [mailto:roy.webb@LIBRARY.UTAH.EDU]
Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 10:44 AM
To: ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
Subject: strange reference requests


What I always do to a friend of mine who works down in Science/engineering
when I call him is adopt a creepy voice and say "Do you have any dirty
books?" to which his standard reply is "Yes, we do have books on soil
science on this floor."

Roy Webb, C.A.
Multimedia Archivist
Special Collections Dept.
J. Willard Marriott Library
University of Utah
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City, Utah   84112
(801) 585-3073
roy.webb@library.utah.edu

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