Remember that Walt Disney special where Sterling Holloway narrated Peter and the Wolf? No? Just me then? Ok well, it's pretty much the most amazing thing to happen involving Prokofiev EVER. If you haven't seen it, you should. If you haven't heard Peter and the Wolf, might I suggest listening to Claudio Addabo's version (narrated by Sting)? There are two parts (out of three) on Youtube and I'm kinda perturbed the third is nowhere to be seen, as I got nearly 15 minutes in and then realized I was very soon going to be angry....because I couldn't listen to the end... NEVER FEAR! I have interlibrary-loaned it.
Interlibrary loan? What's that? If you were one of the people who got their MLIS degree online, you might not know what interlibrary loan is (and clearly I'm not saying this to the general MLIS online degree'd public, but one person - and you know who you are). To clarify, let's imagine your library doesn't have an item you want. Your library may be part of a larger library system (like my county's M.A.I.N. library catalog) and can request that item from another library in its system. Colleges and universities use the same type of system, but they can request from all over the freaking place. Btw, I've decided that interlibrary loan is now a verb. You may have been saying it for years, and to that I say Woot! but now I've stated it, it's on the internet(s, kara) and it's real now.
Also, apropos of libraries, Wil Wheaton just wrote the most super-amazing thing about librarians ever and it seriously warmed my heart. I'm not a *real* librarian with a degree and all, but I work in a library and I do catalog and reference and all other types of librarian related things... and I'm glad to have him on our side. Plus, he just got cooler, if that was possible.
Wendi
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