Sorry, meant to send this to the list:
The New England School of Law's catalog, Portia, includes cover color as a search option:
http://204.193.158.10/
Lis Carey
Mintz Levin
Boston
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu [mailto:owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu]On
Behalf Of Nancy Brown
Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 1:07 PM
To: 'Judith Cole'; jfischer@ggu.edu; law-lib@ucdavis.edu
Subject: RE: E-mails from gruntled patrons
I've always thought that cataloging should include color of the cover or any
other memorable visual clues. I can't count the patrons who've come in and
offered a vague description of some treatise and ended up saying something
like, "You know, the shiny red set."
Nancy Brown, Librarian
Wendel, Rosen, Black & Dean, LLP
Oakland, CA 94607
-----Original Message-----
From: Judith Cole [mailto:ColeJ@hillsboroughcounty.org]
Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 8:55 AM
To: jfischer@ggu.edu; law-lib@ucdavis.edu
Subject: Re: E-mails from gruntled patrons
When I worked in a public library I would laugh at the patrons who came in
and asked for the novel with the blue jacket and Adirondack chairs on the
cover, or some similarly fragmented description. Recently I went to a wine
store and heard myself saying "all I remember is it has a gold and white
label with two short words in a large font." The proprietor found it! So
perhaps many of us are guilty of this but in different contexts!
>>> "Janet Fischer" <jfischer@ggu.edu> 05/23/05 11:26AM >>>
And I'll bet you found it!
Janet
Janet Fischer
Acquisitions/Government Documents Librarian
Golden Gate University Law Library
536 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
phone: 415-442-7826
fax: 415-512-9395
email: jfischer@ggu.edu
http://www.ggu.edu/lawlibrary
>>> Kent Olson <kolson@virginia.edu> 05/23/05 06:55AM >>>
As a mild counterpoint to the recently posted "disgruntled paralegal"
message, here's my favorite recent e-mail request from a law professor:
From: [redacted]
To: Reference Librarians
Subject: Climate change articles
* * * Also I would like a copy of an article that appeared perhaps two
months ago in Scientific American, by a former UVA environmental sciences
professor, who looks at global climate change in the context of long term
climate warming and cooling cycles. His first name is William (Bill) and he
sometimes wears a baseball cap. Thanks, [redacted]
Kent Olson
UVA Law Library
kolson@virginia.edu
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