Dearest readers,This week, JT writes in:1) What is the OU library system’s annual budget for purchasing new books? Has it been increasing in recent years? What part of this budget is discretionary, with...

Dearest readers,This week a faculty member writes in:Assuming faculty can play along, where in the world is the source text for Disney’s Dumbo? Helen Aberson was the author. Harold Pearl may have been...

Dearest readers,This week there was the luxury of choosing between several intriguing queries—if yours is not featured here, fear not!  Your time will come. M writes in with “What is the animal to...

Greetings, Ylvis  dearest Grizzlies:There were a few that heeded my call into the wild for the hardest questions around.  You have yet to even cause me to have even the slightest of palpitations as I...

Let me introduce myself: I am a librarian.  I wear no glasses, I do no shushing, and I don’t have enough hair for a bun, but I do admit a rabid fondness for good cardigan sweaters.  I am one of a devoted...