A thread about what it's like to manage reference inquiries for @elq_resource in GIFs from The Notebook (because, really, it's a love story).

Me, trying to figure out what someone *actually* needs when they say "I'm looking for some literature on response."

Me, when people ask "Do you have anything on when they finished recovery work for X disaster?"

Me, when someone casually mentions they have been searching for some particular source for months that I know I can walk right over and grab

Me, putting together an annotated bibliography on resilience

People waiting for me to respond to their (non-reference) work emails, probably

Me, looking at the first check-out dates on some of the overdue materials on our check-out list

People *still* waiting on replies to their emails watching me make this GIF thread on Twitter (sorry!)

Me, waking up in the middle of the night, remembering the title of a report from 1973 that covers exactly what the researcher was asking for two days *after* I spent three hours scouring the catalog to find it

Finally, still me, after a long, exhausting day of trying to get people to be more specific about what they need

The end