Thank you, thank you, thank you to all the hundreds of readers who answered the survey from ray July/ August column (p. 736) on the vexations of reference librarianship. You have given me enough material to fill the next three columns. As a reward I have decided to donate my stipend from American Libraries to the Burned-Out Reference Librarians International Relief Fund. Here are the dimmest of the dim reference questions that you submitted: A man called up-his county library reference department and wanted to know if the library was a government "suppository."
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机译：谢谢，谢谢，也谢谢所有接受ray July / August列（p。736）有关参考图书馆管理烦恼的调查的读者。您已给我足够的材料来填写接下来的三列。作为奖励，我决定将美国图书馆的津贴捐赠给倦怠的参考图书馆员国际救济基金会。以下是您提交的模糊参考问题中最模糊的问题：一个人打电话给他所在县的图书馆参考部门，想知道图书馆是否是政府的“栓剂”。
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