[PW] Difficult/Amusing/Memorable reference questions

[Janet Webb]

I'd like to get your Arc of the Covenant guy together with my guy -- he wanted information about the Mazzaroth and astrology, he wanted to walk under the same vibrations that the Prophets did because it would lead him to a higher realm where he would live at a certain speed (an exact number that he gave me) more than  normal humans.
Do you laugh BWA HAHAHAHA in their face or just wait until they leave and see how long hitting your head on something hard takes to remove the memory of the interview?
Janet Webb
Reference Assistant
Rome-Floyd County Library Rome GA
Library Science student
Specialized Information Centers online cohort
Clarion University of Pennsylvania
> 
> From: Dennis Lien <Dennis.K.Lien-1 at tc.umn.edu>
> Date: 2007/03/29 Thu AM 10:51:37 EDT
> To: list at project-wombat.org
> Subject: Re: [PW] Difficult/Amusing/Memorable reference questions
> 
> At 03:28 PM 3/28/2007, you wrote:
> 
> >One of the things they are interested in covering is some difficult,
> >amusing, or otherwise memorable reference questions.
> 
> I was the U of MN librarian who got this question a couple decades ago
> (and was happy enough to pass it on to our Archives dept. for formal reply).
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.adam.com.au/bstett/PavonDaniken13.htm
> 
> The Ark of the Covenant
> 
> Mr. von Daniken claims (COTG, p. 58) that the gold-covered Ark of the 
> Covenant in the Old Testament was an electrically charged condenser — 
> "perhaps even the kind of set for communication between Moses and the 
> space-ship" (what space-ship?). "Without actually consulting Exodus," he 
> writes, "I seem to remember that the Ark was often surrounded by flashing 
> sparks and that Moses made use of this 'transmitter' whenever he needed 
> help and advice."
> 
> I did consult Exodus and found no mention of flashing sparks or anything 
> that sounded remotely like Moses using a transmitter. There are detailed 
> instructions for making the Ark out of shittim wood and gold — instructions 
> which, if followed today (according to Mr. von Daniken), produce "a voltage 
> of several hundred volts."
> 
> The film "Chariots of the Gods" went one step further. It showed a replica 
> of the Ark, made by "a group of Minnesota college students," which produced 
> a dangerous electrical charge.
> 
> Dr. Peter White, a lecturer in anthropology at Sydney University who is 
> writing an anti-Daniken book titled "The Man-Made past," took the trouble 
> to ask about this project at the University of Minnesota. The archivist at 
> the university library made extensive enquiries, but was unable to locate 
> an Ark of the Covenant project.
> 
> When I asked Mr. von Daniken about it, he said: "It was some high school in 
> Michigan."
> 
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> 
> My most "got tongue-tied trying to think of an answer without screaming" 
> question
> occured some thirty-five years ago when I was a grad student library 
> assistant at
> the U of Arizona's main library.  A freshmanly looking young woman came to the
> desk and asked if the fact that the title of a book was in another language
> meant that the book itself would be in that language.  I replied that would
> almost always be the case, and she burst out with an indignant "But why do you
> even HAVE these books if THEY'RE NOT IN ENGLISH????!!!
> 
> 
> Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // d-lien at umn.edu
> 
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