So, I didn’t get around to posting about some reference questions when I got them (and therefore the procedures are lost in the mists of poor recollection), but there are some questions that are just… a bit unsettling.
Example: A patron wished to know the precise composition of goat and human milk. The patron felt the need to reiterate, several times, that it was the composition of human milk that was important. Not just proteins, but minerals and so forth. Human milk. Yes, okay, thank you, got it… :/
(P.S. I imagine it was a fairly straightforward search that lead me to these resources – ‘human goat milk composition’ or something – but here’s what I ended up giving the patron:
Composition of Human, Cow, and Goat Milk
& a paragraph or two from Breast Milk @ Wikipedia (Yes, yes, cutting corners, but I went w/ the cited stuff, at least; I had time constraints, unfortunately.))
Tags: "breast milk", libraries, milk, patrons, reference
March 29, 2009 at 12:17 am |
The stuff that people come to you with…