[PW] Difficult/Amusing/Memorable reference questions

[Barbara Bussart]

Maybe the Ark of the Covenant guy and the Mazzaroth guy should get together
with my patron - she came into the reference area and stated that there was
too much negative energy in the computer room - could we do something about
it.  This after she had us look up ghost busters and paranormal thermometers
because her apartment was haunted.

Barbara Bussart
Woonsocket Harris Public Library


On 4/2/07, Janet Webb <jwebb3376 at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
> 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."
> >
> >
> > ******************
> > ******************
> >
> > 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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