We hope everyone who attended enjoyed to 2014 OLC Convention last month. At our OLC Connects table we asked convention goers” What’s the Favorite, Hardest, or Weirdest Reference Question You’ve Ever Received?”

Here are the results.

Here is my Thanksgiving turkey (actual turkey in roaster presented). Can you please show me how to remove the gibblets?

Can anyone tell me…is it true? Is Lebron returning to Cleveland? (rushed through the door-all disheveled and what not)

College student needed several resources for a paper on the history of cowboy boots.

Please explain to me how teleportation works, like on Star Trek.

I need a picture of a frog wearing pants.

I am looking for science fiction featuring concrete.

I have two from over the years: 1) Does a rat have a spleen? 2) I need Richard Simmons personal telephone number—can’t you find that on the www?

I need a picture of a dinosaur—a photograph.

Do you have any books that portray dinosaurs still alive (because they are, and they are with us every day)? This was from an adult.

Please give me all of your cardboard pizza boxes. Librarian responds, “Let’s call Papa John’s”

If I had a million dollars in $1 bills, how many garbage bags would it take to hold it all?

I want the Bible on audiobook in the original Aramaic.

How many souls are in hell, including all those who died BC and couldn’t know Jesus?

What is the velocity of projectile vomit?

I know you are married but I’ve always wanted to sleep with a librarian…what do you think?

What are some easy/good DC or Marvel women characters to dress up as? Can I see pictures of them?

Who invented the chair?

Can I take this magazine to the bathroom?

Patron brought in spin cart fishing reel and asked me how to refill it.

If I give you a piece of fabric, can you tell me the thread count and exactly what color it is?

How do I start a business as a dominatrix?

Can you tell me where the monastery that’s connected to the nunnery is in Europe? I heard that were nuns that were trading sexual favors for milkshakes or goats.

What kind of bus is this? (shows me the bug)

Do you have books on lost love re-found? My wife is leaving me and I want her back.

Dealing with the patron looking at porn and “getting happy” in the computer room.

Will you take my OK Cupid profile pic for me?

How to raise Artemia and what is the optimum water temperature?

Are these books the truth?

Do you have a comb and pair of scissors at the library? Will you please trim my eyebrows for me to save a trip to the barber?

I need something on erectile dysfunction. Time is of the essence… (seriously)

A man rolled up the leg of his jeans revealing a tattoo of Chinese characters and asked, “What does this say?”

Where is the entrance to hell?

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