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  • Know the title please! Also, I know you love Xena...

    I'm working Interlibrary Loan 1 day a week. This is where our library tries to find other library systems with the item you want (that we don't carry.)

    One person knew the author, but typed the title Sex as a weapon Misery Love Company. The computer threw a "WTF?" So I go to Amazon.com, and after 5 min. figured out it's two different titles, The Grudge: Misery Lives Company and Sex as a weapon. I had to tell the person (email) tha 1) if you request 2 seperate books, do it in two forms and 2) no library has either book.

    Then someone did bother to submit seperate requests. But for seasons 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 of Xena, Warrior Princess. I used to watch that show, but it got moved around a lot so I didn't see all the seasons. A cw told me Xena was crucified in the last show.

    So the computer showed me the seperate seasons, but it only went up to 6. Going to Amazon (mabye I should start referring this to "Amazoning" - pun not intended, though it's a lame pun), I see there is only 6 seasons. I send an email for each of the non-season 6 requsets hat there are only season 1-6.

    EDIT (management came by, I had to hide)
    About 20 min. latter the Xena-wanting guy calls and gets a cw. From the conversation, seems he bitched that it took weeks for someone to get back to him.

    One thing, some management person "volunteered" my dept. to help interlibrary loan (ILL) on fridays. They usually have 300-500 requests in queue waiting for a human being to send in the requests. I've noticed these Xena requests last week, and I can't remember if the week before they were there. I don't know how backed up ILL is, but there seems to be enough staff there to get through these requests, besides 3-6 of us from my dept. helping out on fri (some of us get fridays off). I have issues with ILL, mostly because they are funded by Texas state liberries (sp intentional). So we can't use their equipment. But they are always using our equipment, like the microfilm machines. So there are times when I have to use the one machine that is working but they want to use it. Ugh.

    Anyway, man then says, "send me any season you have." and cw tells him we only submit whatever he submit, so "anything you have" isn't specific enough. He wants season 1-6. Why didn't he request that in the first place?

    Another person requestd The Irvington Diaries by Don Montgue. The computer threw a "WTF?" After going on Amazon, looking under Don Montgue, I didn't see the book. I go to google and google tells me it's The Ivington Diaries by Don Monty. Then I go to amazon again, type that in, and it tells me Don Montgue is the author. Stupid amazon, stupid author with more than one name, stupid patron who couldn't have bothered with the correct title.
    Last edited by depechemodefan; 10-29-2010, 09:59 PM. Reason: adding
    Time! Time! Time is what turns kittens into cats.

    Don't teach me a lesson; all I learn is that you are an asshole.

    I wish porn had subtitles.

  • #2
    xena did die, but the crucifixion was season four; she died in season six (for the last time).

    it's funny that they think the show lasted that long (would have been nice, but i think they were simply running out of ideas...xena meets cops? serious?).
    look! it's ghengis khan!
    Sorry, but while I can do many things, extracting heads from anuses isn't one of them. (so sayeth the irv)

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    • #3
      ...xena meets cops? serious
      really? I saw Xena gives a donkey to a guy and his pregnant wife. And met Julius Ceasar. And pull out Excalibur. In fact, I think I stopped watching it when Gabriella gave birth to the evil whatever. I would have liked to seen ep where they were watching a play of the ancient greek version of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Buffus the Lamia Slayer?)

      Someone request Pictures at an exhibition by "someone whose first name is Hough". Well, the author is Sara Houghteling. Epic fail, though, because we own that book. In fact, 7 copies of that book. I guess the customer saw all our copies were checked out and there were 6 holds. So he/she thought, "oh, I will get a copy from ILL." Which ILL won't do because we do own the book, just don't have anything available at the moment. And the time ILL responded that we won't ask another library for the book because we own the copy, (was about 3 weeks) the person could have placed the book on hold and already have to book.
      Time! Time! Time is what turns kittens into cats.

      Don't teach me a lesson; all I learn is that you are an asshole.

      I wish porn had subtitles.

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      • #4
        geh, sometimes, i wonder why people mouthbreathing club pounders like this bother with reading; they'd hurt themselves opening the cover.
        look! it's ghengis khan!
        Sorry, but while I can do many things, extracting heads from anuses isn't one of them. (so sayeth the irv)

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        • #5
          They use them to impress guests, as if they were Mrs. Bucket. They also like to pretend cover art is household art.

          I do it to, with my own book covers. At least, with their official posters.
          Customers should always be served . . . to the nearest great white.

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          • #6
            Wow. My system requires the ISBNs for each book for inter library loans. Those guys don't know how lucky they are to have you!

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            • #7
              Quoth chainedbarista View Post
              it's funny that they think the show lasted that long (would have been nice, but i think they were simply running out of ideas...xena meets cops? serious?).
              Some of the best stories in modern TV shows are homages to other shows and movies. Groundhog Day is pretty frequent - both Xena and Stargate had one. Die Hard is another - 'School Hard' in Buffy and 'Starship Mine' in Star Trek TNG.
              "I can tell her you're all tied up in the projection room." Sunset Boulevard.

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              • #8
                Quoth depechemodefan View Post
                really? I saw Xena gives a donkey to a guy and his pregnant wife. And met Julius Ceasar. And pull out Excalibur. In fact, I think I stopped watching it when Gabriella gave birth to the evil whatever. I would have liked to seen ep where they were watching a play of the ancient greek version of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Buffus the Lamia Slayer?)
                Xena did more than just meet Julius Caesar.

                Gabrielle gave birth to Dahok's grand child at the beginning of season 4. They should have stopped when she fell into the fire pit at the end of Season 3. It was the best season they did, and they just couldn't top themselves after that.

                The episode with the Bacchae was in Season 2, "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun."

                (Can you tell I'm a major Xena geek?)
                They say that God only gives us what we can handle. Apparently, God thinks I'm a bad ass.

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                • #9
                  so did Gabriella ever lose her virginity?
                  Time! Time! Time is what turns kittens into cats.

                  Don't teach me a lesson; all I learn is that you are an asshole.

                  I wish porn had subtitles.

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                  • #10
                    deprechemodefan - Yes to her husband Perdicus(sp) who was knocked off by Callisto in I believe the 2nd season.

                    I think personally when Xena became pregnant by a spirit of the new god that it should have ended. There were some funny eps after that but it was like jumpin' the shark for me.

                    In response to the OP tho so not to derail, People just don't seem to want to read. I mean the guy wants to watch a show that is easily searchable on the internet to find out how many seasons there are. Heck! Xena and Hercules are on Netflix. Get the cheapest plan with instant watch online streaming and there you go.

                    Plus if you don't know the name of a book you want..then just sit down and read another til it comes to you. Don't bother poor librarians and book store owners with your "It had a blue/red cover ..and I think a flying monkey"

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                    • #11
                      Yes to her husband Perdicus(sp) who was knocked off by Callisto in I believe the 2nd season.
                      She got married, really? I guess I missed that ep. Though, again, the station kept on chaning the day it was on. One point it was on a Sat then on a Fri and I did't know it.

                      when Xena became pregnant by a spirit of the new god
                      really? that seems a retread of what happened to Gabriella. Though wasn't LL pregnant in real life at the time?

                      eh, back on topic. This isn't an ILL issue but this past week a guy comes up to me.

                      guy: There was a book on the shelf, it was a thick (he holds hands appart) book, white, and it was on the Cuban missile crisis. There were two of them and none are on the shelf.
                      me: I need more information on that since we have too many books on the Cuban missile crisis and we don't go by book size or color.
                      guy: (gives me author of book)
                      me: Ok , found it. ONe copy is due 10/26/10, the other is on the hold shelf.
                      guy: oh, today is the 26. YOu think it might be in the building already, not checked in?
                      me: no, if it came in it would have been checked in (granted, it might have been dropped in the book drop, but fuck it, I'm not going to dig around in the book drop, since both book drops need a key to get in it).
                      guy: what does "on the hold shelf mean"?
                      me: means some one put it on hold and is going to pick it up.

                      At least he had the author, but really, why would I know from the color and size what book it is?
                      Time! Time! Time is what turns kittens into cats.

                      Don't teach me a lesson; all I learn is that you are an asshole.

                      I wish porn had subtitles.

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                      • #12
                        well, to be fair, it was a 'good' god, and callisto's soul was given a new chance for life (although i was under the impression that xena already 'saved' her by taking her place in hell).

                        oh well, it was mindless and amusing entertainment.
                        look! it's ghengis khan!
                        Sorry, but while I can do many things, extracting heads from anuses isn't one of them. (so sayeth the irv)

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                        • #13
                          I thought Callisto was trapped in the burning room with the Golden Apples when she tried to kill Hercules on his birthday? Argh.

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                          • #14
                            Quoth depechemodefan View Post
                            so did Gabriella ever lose her virginity?
                            Yup. Season 2. Callisto kills Perdicus at the end of the episode where they get married.
                            Yes, married Perdicus in Season 2.

                            Quoth depechemodefan View Post
                            She got married, really? I guess I missed that ep. Though, again, the station kept on chaning the day it was on. One point it was on a Sat then on a Fri and I did't know it.

                            really? that seems a retread of what happened to Gabriella. Though wasn't LL pregnant in real life at the time?
                            Yes, Lucy Lawless was pregnant, and continued the show. Xena's pregnancy was written to cover for the actress. It made for some awkward continuity problems, though.

                            Quoth depechemodefan View Post
                            eh, back on topic. This isn't an ILL issue but this past week a guy comes up to me.

                            guy: There was a book on the shelf, it was a thick (he holds hands appart) book, white, and it was on the Cuban missile crisis. There were two of them and none are on the shelf.
                            me: I need more information on that since we have too many books on the Cuban missile crisis and we don't go by book size or color.
                            guy: (gives me author of book)
                            me: Ok , found it. ONe copy is due 10/26/10, the other is on the hold shelf.
                            guy: oh, today is the 26. YOu think it might be in the building already, not checked in?
                            me: no, if it came in it would have been checked in (granted, it might have been dropped in the book drop, but fuck it, I'm not going to dig around in the book drop, since both book drops need a key to get in it).
                            guy: what does "on the hold shelf mean"?
                            me: means some one put it on hold and is going to pick it up.

                            At least he had the author, but really, why would I know from the color and size what book it is?
                            Because librarians are such book experts that they are expected to know every book in the library by heart. Didn't you know?

                            I used to get a lot of that when I worked in my high school library. Problem was, it was such a small library I really did know the stacks by heart. When I went away to college I almost fainted when I saw how big the college library was.

                            Then I went to work in that library. I quickly realized I was not going to learn it by heart. Heck, keeping up with the reference section (which I was responsible for keeping organized) was a challenge in of itself.

                            Later, they gave me the job of organizing the ILL requests and putting them into the system with the other libraries. This was back before the Internet and Amazon.com so we got hundreds of requests every week.

                            The beginning of the semester was typically a light work load, a handful of requests mostly from faculty. Then around November, the river would rise as papers came due.

                            We wouldn't process an incomplete or inaccurate request. It would get sent back to the student for correction. Since I handled all the ILL requests for the library, the students had to deal with me . . . and I had no pity. Neither did my boss, who would refer complaints back to me.

                            Good times

                            Quoth NateTheChops View Post
                            I thought Callisto was trapped in the burning room with the Golden Apples when she tried to kill Hercules on his birthday? Argh.
                            She was. Xena freed her in A Necessary Evil, after Valesca ate ambrosia and became a god, because Callisto was immortal and Valesca couldn't kill her.

                            Yeah, it gets really convoluted. It's just like a comic book: the villain is not really dead until you see a body, and sometimes not even then.
                            They say that God only gives us what we can handle. Apparently, God thinks I'm a bad ass.

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                            • #15
                              this is why i like my system here. we can look stuff up ourselves online, or on a kiosk there.

                              yes we can bug the librarians but... we don't have to.
                              then again... i'm sure SCs would just bug them anyway

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