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Hello

Did you join the library on Saturday, or are you already a member?  If you haven't yet joined, you still can you know, either visit your local library, or if you live/work/study in North Lincolnshire you can use our new online joining facility.

Anyway, what I wanted to talk to you about today was some of the more unusual things people come into libraries looking for. 

• We've seen matchboxes with insects in that needed to be identified.
• We've been asked to find a hotel, without knowing its names, address or postcode.
• We've been asked to find out "Who was beaten to death with their own wooden leg?" *
• We've been asked to find the average weight of a Karki Campbell duck.
• We've been asked to diagnose what was wrong with someone's printer.
• We've been asked for a book with a green cover that someone had borrowed months previously.

So don't feel embarrassed about the strange questions that you need to come into the library to ask us, we'll do our best to find the answer for you (and if we can't find it we can usually direct you to someone else to ask).

Until next time, Happy Reading!

Suzanne

*It's Sir Arthur Aston just in case you were wondering - North Lincolnshire library members can read all about him by going to the North Lincolnshire Libraries website and visiting the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography in the online reading room.