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Reference Question of the Week – 2/15/09
A patron came up to the desk with this question: I found a picture in Wikipedia that shows a map at four different periods in history. I want to print all four versions, but I can't get the image to...
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Reference Question of the Week – 7/26/09
Our pay-for-print station has been acting funny lately - and by "lately," I mean the last 2+ years. As you might expect, reference staff spends a lot of time answering "how do I print" questions. But...
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Options for Printing Books
It's funny how things happen in threes*: A couple weeks ago, I was talking to a colleague about Google Books, and I made a comment like, "since Google is scanning all these old books, if they allow...
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Printing Books on Demand
A couple weeks ago I posted about new options for printing books, in which I mentioned Google's Expresso book-on-demand printer. I found out that the Harvard Book Store in Cambridge has one, so I went...
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Reference Question of the Week – 9/4/11
This week's question is one we get asked many times a day - it's not difficult at all, but this time had a sort of heart-wrenching twist. A woman in her early twenties walked up to the desk. Very...
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Reference Question of the Week – 3/17/13
One of the most common questions we get at the Reference Desk is something along the lines of: I tried to print something, but all I got was this blank page. Can you print it for me? The reason this...
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Print From Anywhere to the Library
Last week's reference question reminded me to post about a new service we've just started offering in my library - wireless "print from anywhere" for patrons. We use Envisionware's LPT:One for our...
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Reference Question of the Week – 6/9/13
Wednesday is my night to work at the library, and a couple hours before we closed I got an email from a coworker that just said, I just took a picture that I think will be perfect for your blog. Ask me...
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Reference Question of the Week – 3/1/15
This question wasn't all that difficult to answer, but I thought it was interesting in that, it's something I didn't know before and for some reason feel a little bit better for knowing now, kind of...
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Reference Question of the Week – 5/31/15
This is, hands down, one of the saddest reference interactions I've ever had. One evening a couple weeks ago, a young girl came up to the desk with a stack of pages she had just picked up off the color...
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Reference Question of the Week – 12/6/15
This week's question fits right in with the recent thread of "things that happen at closing time," but unfortunately gets filed under, "you win some, you lose some." Wednesdays are my night to work...
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