Hard questions

Kid to mom: Mom, do we have a resume? (re-zoom, not reh-zoo-may)

Patron calls with a real research question: There's a parcel of land in the neighborhood that she thinks used to be owned by the federal government and might still be. She remembers reading a long time ago that there were restrictions on what could be developed on it, specifically that it had to be developed "in the public interest." She wants to know who owns the land now and if there are currently any legal restrictions on development there. She doesn't have an address but she can describe where it is. Sounds interesting and exciting...unfortunately she needs the answer in 4 hours for a town hall meeting she wants to attend. I manage to ID the property but the legal questions are beyond me. Good luck with the county law library, ma'am! (As an aside, I think county law librarians must have the worst of both the public and the academic/corporate library worlds, and must be absolute saints).

Do you have the movie Boss Baby? What about Over the Hill? I mean, Over the Hedge?


One of the pages is picking up trash outside the library and has found a dead bird and wants to know what to do. I suggest leaving its corpse for scavengers, but he says "It's right in the road, though! If someone runs it over it's going to make a huge mess!" This will made a good addition to one of my favorite lists: "ridiculously titled emails I really had to send."