[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: Friday Funnies - strange researchers revisted.



Excellent point, Eric, and I had to think for a moment before deciding to do
this. Given what he did with that first folder, I figured that if I left him
in our "reading room" (which normally serves as our mail room), I'd be
finding misplaced records left in strange places until next leap year. The
adventure with his notes seems to bear that out. At least while he was here
under my nose (literally) he was on his relatively good behavior.

Oh, and I did tell him that staff time charges apply to time needed to
refile records, and as far as I'm concerned the clock will be running as I
clean up the folders he scrambled for me. Money was not an object to him, as
evidenced by the 200 or so color copies he wants made; am I on sound ground
doing that?

 Best wishes,

Tom


----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric v.d. Luft, Ph.D., M.L.S." <lufte@MAIL.UPSTATE.EDU>
To: <ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 8:59 AM
Subject: Re: Friday Funnies - strange researchers revisted.


> Tom wrote:
>
> > Soon he's complaining that my retrieving things from his extensive list
is
> > taking too long, and he hands me the first folder of records I pulled
for
> > him, now in utter disarray. He says he wants to look directly in the
files
> > himself. The files are in my office, where there's hardly room for one
> > person, let alone two. No problem, he says. I tell him in no uncertain
terms
> > to be careful with the records.
>
> Right here is where you lost control, Tom. You should never have let him
into your office. Be tough.
> Explain the rules to him over and over until he comprehends, but don't
give in. Wimps never prosper!
>
> Cheers!
>
> Eric
>
> --
>
> Eric v.d. Luft, Ph.D., M.L.S.
> Curator of Historical Collections, Health Sciences Library
> SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY 13210
> <http://web.upstate.edu/lufte/> -- 315-464-4585
> Listowner: ALHHS-L <http://web.upstate.edu/lufte/alhhs-l.html>
> For e-mail pertaining to libraries, librarianship, or the history of
>  medicine, please use <lufte@mail.upstate.edu> not <lufte@upstate.edu>
> For all other e-mail, please use <gegensatz@alumni.bowdoin.edu>
>
> "Be always sure you're right, then go ahead."
>                                           -- Davy Crockett
>                                 [Autobiography, 1834, title page]
>
> A posting from the Archives & Archivists LISTSERV List!
>
> To subscribe or unsubscribe, send e-mail to listserv@listserv.muohio.edu
>       In body of message:  SUB ARCHIVES firstname lastname
>                     *or*:  UNSUB ARCHIVES
> To post a message, send e-mail to archives@listserv.muohio.edu
>
> Or to do *anything* (and enjoy doing it!), use the web interface at
>      http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/archives.html
>
> Problems?  Send e-mail to Robert F Schmidt <rschmidt@lib.muohio.edu>
>

A posting from the Archives & Archivists LISTSERV List!

To subscribe or unsubscribe, send e-mail to listserv@listserv.muohio.edu
      In body of message:  SUB ARCHIVES firstname lastname
                    *or*:  UNSUB ARCHIVES
To post a message, send e-mail to archives@listserv.muohio.edu

Or to do *anything* (and enjoy doing it!), use the web interface at
     http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/archives.html

Problems?  Send e-mail to Robert F Schmidt <rschmidt@lib.muohio.edu>