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Post by whollygoats on Jan 27, 2021 14:49:03 GMT
I was notified that another colleague of many years at the OHSU Library has checked out. Goodbye, Jeff.
He spent 40 years behind the desk and came to be something of a specialist in curation. His absence from the collection will be missed.
All shift through the next range. Wrangle all the carts you can to where you need them.
May your next gig include unlimited interlibrary loans and access to all the best libraries.
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Post by Kye on Jan 27, 2021 14:59:05 GMT
So sorry for your loss, Goat. <3
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Post by tangent on Jan 27, 2021 17:52:32 GMT
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Post by JoeP on Jan 27, 2021 22:10:12 GMT
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Post by Elis on Jan 28, 2021 21:23:10 GMT
Sorry four your loss.
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Post by Moose on Jan 29, 2021 2:16:02 GMT
I am really sorry. That sounds inadequate but I genuinely am.
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Post by Mari on Jan 30, 2021 14:47:31 GMT
I'm sorry to hear that. Was it sudden? Your wishes for him are great though! Access to all books ever written sounds amazing.
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Post by whollygoats on Jan 30, 2021 15:35:06 GMT
Jeff, like myself, was not a librarian, but an overeducated clerical staffer. He and I were in the front ranks of the circulation desk for years and wrangled student assistants for the library. Like most over-educated members of the staff, he tended to utilize the perquisites of being a library staffer to extend his own intellectual interests. I was the point person for interlibrary loans for years, and Jeff was the second most interesting requestor of materials during my tenure. He had a tendency to request items in languages he could not speak and then teach himself enough to find whatever it was he sought in the sources. Magyar was his most impressive, but he stumbled through several Slavic languages, and was reasonably conversant in German. (I had another requestor who sought Buddhist texts in Urdu, Sanskrit and Mongol.) I appreciated Jeff for his wide-ranging non-medical interests.
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Post by Mari on Jan 31, 2021 9:06:44 GMT
Impressive. That's taking "satisfying your curiosity" to a whole new level.
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Post by whollygoats on Feb 1, 2021 14:42:08 GMT
I'm sorry to hear that. Was it sudden? Your wishes for him are great though! Access to all books ever written sounds amazing. Well, yes, it was 'sudden' in that he has been ambulatory and reasonably conversant. He'd had something of a struggle with intoxicants in his middle years and beat it. I'm told that it was renal failure that finally took him down. One of the best places in the world for access to books is in the midst of an interlibrary loan office of a major university library. One has access to almost all the great libraries of the world, if you can afford the borrowing fees and have the patience to wait out the mail transits. The introduction of .pdf was a major leap for fast provision of journal articles worldwide.
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