You might want to fix some of the internet connection jacks in Lilly – there are about 2 that are still in working condition and located near any kind of desk. This is unacceptable. Students should be able to sit down at any desk that has a connection next to it and actually use the internet. Thank you.

ANSWER PERSON RESPONDS: It would be nice if AP had an Internet connect at AP’s desk . . . whoops, I do. In a perfect world all Lilly Library network ports would work, and in AP’s continuing commitment to achieving perfection, I will pass on your comment. By the way, did you mention the problem to the friendly staff at the Lilly help desk?

I have a link suggestion that might be good for the reference section on your site.

http://www.kplay.cc/reference.html

What it does is make it simple to use different reference works on the Web.

best,
Matt

ANSWER PERSON RESPONDS: If you make it too easy to find the answers, then where will I be? Still, not every information need requires the superior skills of AP, so maybe something like this (hopefully, without ad pop ups) would be nice. AP will pass it on to the Reference Department.

I really need to download the article from your publication on the NC ECHO project. Can one print an article from your magazine website. Or is there another way to get the article from the internet. Need a hard copy of it very quickly.

Thanks in advance for a quick answer.

ANSWER PERSON RESPONDS: The DULM is available online at http://magazine.lib.duke.edu/. Click on “Back Issues.” Go to the “Fall 2001” link. Click on “Contents” and then click on “North Carolina Echo.” You can then read and print the article (page by page).
Hope this helps–and that it was quick enough!

Dear Answer Person,
I recently spoke to a professor who discovered your sampler online. She had so much fun with it that she could not stop and do her work. Now she is going to give her students the URL as a reward at the end of class. Do you think she has a problem that needs professional attention?

Perplexed in Perkins

ANSWER PERSON RESPONDS: Dear Perplexed in Perkins:

She apparently did stop to do her work. She made it to class. She recognized that her students deserved a reward. The other good news is that she will get through the sampler, additions will appear at a moderate pace, and she can resume her normal work patterns — in a more enlightened and informed state.

What did college kids do at night when pizza was not yet available for delivery?

ANSWER PERSON RESPONDS: It has been a long time since Answer Person was in college, but even though we had no personal computers, Internet, cable TV or video games, we had pizza delivery. What the even older people (I think they were all faculty complaining about how tough it was in their day) said is they had to cook their own food, after chopping the wood and dragging it through the snow, uphill, in winter. With so few entertaining distractions, they claimed they studied much harder than we did, and were much smarter and knowledgeable. AP vowed never to pass on the same kinds of judgments to offspring and later generations of children, but . . . if you only knew what it was like when we had no personal computers, Internet, cable TV or video games!