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1) A memorial of sorts: Over half my life has been spent in a security state.
2) An undergraduate came in who said she had an assignment to look at a book in the collection. I showed her how to find things in the catalog, she identified something to look at, I got her registered in the system and pulled the book for her. I was doing our usual bits of "leave the book in the cradle, it's safe to take pictures with no flash, do you need any paper for notes?" and she finally said, "Um. What do I ... do ... with it?" I wonder what expression I was unable to repress, because she became hugely apologetic, and I asked what did her professor's assignment want her to do, and she had no idea. Bless the poor child.
2) An undergraduate came in who said she had an assignment to look at a book in the collection. I showed her how to find things in the catalog, she identified something to look at, I got her registered in the system and pulled the book for her. I was doing our usual bits of "leave the book in the cradle, it's safe to take pictures with no flash, do you need any paper for notes?" and she finally said, "Um. What do I ... do ... with it?" I wonder what expression I was unable to repress, because she became hugely apologetic, and I asked what did her professor's assignment want her to do, and she had no idea. Bless the poor child.
