Unanswered Questions

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Great anti-plagiarism video

This has made my night. This would be fantastic for explaining why that darn research paper shouldn't be copied in full from Wikipedia. It's from a university, so some of the image …
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Children’s book about mice

Looking for title/author of a book my sister and I enjoyed in the mid-late 1960's. All I remember is that it involved mice getting hurt/killed by a toy train. It contained illust …
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copyright question about dropped medical journals

In the past two years the Library Committee has dropped more than half our medical journals. Some of these were used many times, and people will continue to use them. How are other …
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Archival storage for CD-Roms

Hi everyone: At my library, we are just starting to get an archives room/star archiving material because the school recently took an interest in it. We've been getting a number of …
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Youth Sevices Department Goals

I am working on a set of department goals, and I'm looking for examples and suggestions. Please share any goals you have for your library department (youth, adult, IT, etc.), and …
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I have the book plot, now if I only knew the title…

Need to find a book for an elderly patron - all she can remember was some of the plot line.... a pediatric heart surgeon's wife dies and he uses her heart for a little girl. Any h …
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seeking title of a science fiction tale in which human male marries and impregnates alien cat-like humanoid female

in order to get her father to permit the marriage, the human agrees to allow his genes to be changed so that when he does impregnate her, the children will be 100% alien, 0% human …
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I remember the poem, but not the children’s fantasy book…

I remember a children's fantasy book that had a poem that I fell in love with. I would love to find it again, but I only remember (most of) the poem... Once upon a windy downs I …
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Picture Book from the 80’s - Patron Question

Any ideas what this could be? I have a patron looking for this. "I am looking for a children's book that I read when I was about four so in the late 80's. It is about a boy or ma …
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WWII YA novel with a ghost

I'm looking for a YA novel I read back in the late 80's or early 90's. It was set in WWII England, and involved a boy who became best friends with/dated a girl who lived nearby. …
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Title Search for Mom

My mom is trying to locate a book that used to be on her bookshelf, but is now gone:( Here is all she remembers about the book: I want to find a book I used to have. Don't have …
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Looking for a children’s book about monsters from the 80’s

My sisters and I used to LOVE this book we had as children in the 80's , but none of us can remember the name!! It was a children's book with all black pages. And the main characte …
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Looking for fantasy/fairy book

I am looking for a book set during the time of the plauge in Europe. Main character a girl in her late teens who becomes an apprentice herbalist. She ends up being found by a kin …
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Help Finding a Book for a Patron

Okay, every librarian has had this dilemma at one point or another. A patron cannot remember the title or the author of a book, but he really wants to find to book for a friend. …
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unkown fantasy novel

I am looking for the title of a book that was probably written in the mid 1980's. The hero was an orphan with a sword raised by an elderly man. The hero goes on a quest to find a …

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