Haiku
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ILL Haiku
This is a good exercise to get people thinking about what ILL is. Many listed here are from the ILL-L from March of 2008. Feel free to add your own to this list:
Citation info?
I don't know much about it,
I just clicked order.
Margin of Safety?
And you want it for next week?
(Bangs head against wall)
Which scanner model
is the best? How can I tell?
Check ShareILL
Oh, bag of toxic
grey fluff! Kindly release our
book without debris!
They keep requesting
Forty Years A Hooker - Yo!
It's about fishing!
Little shark staple,
My finger is not tasty
What's so wrong with tape?
Jiffy fill fluff in hair
Tire tracks on yellow bag
Mail service 1 - clerk 0
Ingenta, you rock!
Google saves me with info
Cite was incorrect.
When the form says name
It means full; page is not count
You got degree? How?
Yesterday absurd
Tomorrow is laughable
We are not McDonald's
Ask not for "The Shack"
"In use on loan" must i reply
Cause it ain't come back
You want statistics?
Great. I can get them to you.
But not the ones you want.
All across the land
Fingers fly and shelves are scanned
Just to lend a hand
What is mine is yours
For a certain length of time.
Can what's yours be mine?
Readers' world-wide site;
Networked libraries who share
Keep the flame alight
Dave? The one who wants
from far away the book he
just checked out today.
We never have all
So we request from others
Libraries are great!
Once again they fail
To look at the "ship to" line
Book goes to wrong place
Arthur Robinson
Interlibrary guru
Many thanks to you
TV DVD’s
I tell them no one can lend
Still they ask for more
Published in ‘08
No one has it on the shelf
Try again in May
If you will not lend
AV items, then do not
Ask to borrow them
ILL staffers
Never die they merely age
to the next lender
Not found as cited.
In use on loan. Not on shelf.
Policy problem.
Information please
For fun, for work, or for school
Hurry, hurry please
Books and other things
Travel back and forth to me.
Life is much more fun.
Interlibrary loan –
When I do not get my book,
Then I become ill.
Each day we look for
A book that is not found here.
Answer: I.L.L.
How I help Rapides?
In their time of need or want?
I send what I have.
<note: Rapides is one of the parish (county) library systems here in LA>
Books I could not find
Might be somewhere far away
I can still get it
She always wants books
That I can’t find on our shelves.
I can still say yes
I love I.L.L.
It provides job security and great exercise
Of the mind and body
Out in rural parts
Books we can’t find, we get from
Other libraries
I need this book now.
The request went in today.
Is it here yet, huh?
I ask the library
For a rare book from afar
I get it soon though.
Watson I.L.L.
Borrowing, lending I do
Can I assist you?
Borrow, lend, borrow
Interlibrary loaning
Helps us one and all.
I love Ariel!
Instant gratification:
It's already here!
