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FROM: Jane Jorgenson <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 5/15/02, 6:23 PM

I have a patron who's looking for an award winning
book. She thinks it won a Pulitzer for fiction
although scanning the list of winners didn't ring any
bells for her. So the award could be something else
(we did look at the Bookers and National Book Awards).

She thinks the author is Scandinavian or has a
Scandinavian sounding name, that the book may be part
of a series, it is set in the middle ages and may have
midwives in the title or in the book.

Karen Cushman's children's book title The Midwife's
Apprentice sort of seemed familiar to her but she's
sure the book was an adult title.

Any thoughts?
TIA,
Jane Jorgenson
Alicia Ashman Branch - MPL
Madison, WI

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FROM: "Gayle Richardson" <[removed]@spl.org>
REC'D: 5/15/02, 6:34 PM

Could this be Sigrid Undset, winner of the Nobel Prize (1928) and one of
whose
works is titled The Wife? The series (Kristin Lavransdatter) and the
middle ages setting also work.
Gayle Richardson

>>> [removed]@yahoo.com 05/15/02 04:15PM >>>
I have a patron who's looking for an award winning
book. She thinks it won a Pulitzer for fiction
although scanning the list of winners didn't ring any
bells for her. So the award could be something else
(we did look at the Bookers and National Book Awards).

She thinks the author is Scandinavian or has a
Scandinavian sounding name, that the book may be part
of a series, it is set in the middle ages and may have
midwives in the title or in the book.

Karen Cushman's children's book title The Midwife's
Apprentice sort of seemed familiar to her but she's
sure the book was an adult title.

Any thoughts?
TIA,
Jane Jorgenson
Alicia Ashman Branch - MPL
Madison, WI

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FROM: Joyce Saricks <[removed]@SLS.LIB.IL.US>
REC'D: 5/15/02, 6:34 PM

Sounds like Nobel prize winner Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter. There are
3 books in the series, and the setting is Norway in the Middle Ages. She won in
1928.

Joyce Saricks
Downers Grove Public Library

"Wer immer strebend sich bemueht, den koennen wir erloesen."
Goethe, Faust, Part 2, Act 5

FROM: Jane Jorgenson <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 5/15/02, 6:56 PM

--- Gayle Richardson <[removed]@spl.org> wrote:
> Could this be Sigrid Undset, winner of the Nobel
> Prize (1928) and one of
> whose
> works is titled The Wife? The series (Kristin
> Lavransdatter) and the
> middle ages setting also work.

This was it. I was thrown by the dates, she thought
it had won an award in the last few years. Thanks for
the quick response. She was still in the library so I
was able to send her home with it.

Jane

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FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 5/16/02, 10:37 AM

>From: Jane Jorgenson <[removed]@yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: Award winning book
>Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 16:15:41 -0700 (PDT)
>
>I have a patron who's looking for an award winning
>book. She thinks it won a Pulitzer for fiction
>although scanning the list of winners didn't ring any
>bells for her. So the award could be something else
>(we did look at the Bookers and National Book Awards).
>

Could she be thinking of Sigrid Undset's trilogy, "Kristin Lavransdatter"?
A very moldy oldie, but a classic. Undset won the 1928 Nobel for the body
of her work, which may be what your patron is thinking of.

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FROM: "Carla Hutchens" <[removed]@oplin.lib.oh.us>
REC'D: 5/17/02, 12:00 PM

One of the things that I learned in library school that has served me well
over the years is that "the patron is always wrong". If the patron says the
book is new, it is old. If they say it is set in Africa, it is set in Asia.
In other words, never take for granted that the patron knows what he or she
is talking about (without being offensive, of course). It opens your mind
to all the possibilities.
.
-------------------------------------------------------------
Carla Hutchens
Director
Guernsey County District Public Library
Cambridge OH
http://www.gcdpl.lib.oh.us

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jane Jorgenson" <[removed]@yahoo.com>
To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 7:15 PM
Subject: Award winning book

> I have a patron who's looking for an award winning
> book. She thinks it won a Pulitzer for fiction
> although scanning the list of winners didn't ring any
> bells for her. So the award could be something else
> (we did look at the Bookers and National Book Awards).
>
> She thinks the author is Scandinavian or has a
> Scandinavian sounding name, that the book may be part
> of a series, it is set in the middle ages and may have
> midwives in the title or in the book.
>
> Karen Cushman's children's book title The Midwife's
> Apprentice sort of seemed familiar to her but she's
> sure the book was an adult title.
>
> Any thoughts?
> TIA,
> Jane Jorgenson
> Alicia Ashman Branch - MPL
> Madison, WI
>
> __________________________________________________
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> LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience
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FROM: Debbie Bloom <[removed]@addison.lib.il.us>
REC'D: 5/20/02, 11:58 AM

My version of this is "Don't trust a patron unless they have the actual
review or article in their hand."

Deb Bloom
Information Specialist
Addison Public Library
235 N. Kennedy Dr.
Addison, IL 60101-2499
630-458-3318
[removed]@addison.lib.il.us

-----Original Message-----
From: Carla Hutchens [[removed]@oplin.lib.oh.us]
Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 8:36 AM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Re: Award winning book

One of the things that I learned in library school that has served me well
over the years is that "the patron is always wrong". If the patron says the
book is new, it is old. If they say it is set in Africa, it is set in Asia.
In other words, never take for granted that the patron knows what he or she
is talking about (without being offensive, of course). It opens your mind
to all the possibilities.
.
-------------------------------------------------------------
Carla Hutchens
Director
Guernsey County District Public Library
Cambridge OH
http://www.gcdpl.lib.oh.us

-------------------------------------------------------------
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jane Jorgenson" <[removed]@yahoo.com>
To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 7:15 PM
Subject: Award winning book

> I have a patron who's looking for an award winning
> book. She thinks it won a Pulitzer for fiction
> although scanning the list of winners didn't ring any
> bells for her. So the award could be something else
> (we did look at the Bookers and National Book Awards).
>
> She thinks the author is Scandinavian or has a
> Scandinavian sounding name, that the book may be part
> of a series, it is set in the middle ages and may have
> midwives in the title or in the book.
>
> Karen Cushman's children's book title The Midwife's
> Apprentice sort of seemed familiar to her but she's
> sure the book was an adult title.
>
> Any thoughts?
> TIA,
> Jane Jorgenson
> Alicia Ashman Branch - MPL
> Madison, WI
>
> __________________________________________________
> Do You Yahoo!?
> LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience
> http://launch.yahoo.com
>
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
>

FROM: Kathleen Stipek <[removed]@exchange.acld.lib.fl.us>
REC'D: 5/20/02, 12:30 PM

Much of what my library professors told me was not particularly useful, but
I discovered over time that whatever they told you through gritted teeth was
absolutely on the money. One prof. gritted once "They never get it right."
He told us horror stories about running a reserve room in academia where
professors would give him enormous lists of titles, but often did not
identify which were monographs and which were articles and then get steamed
at him when he couldn't figure out what they really wanted.

........................................................................
.....................
Kathleen Stipek, Adult Services/Interlibrary Loans, Alachua County
Library District (FMG), 401 E. University AV, Gainesville FL 32601
[removed]@exchange.acld.lib.fl.us)
352-334-3938 (v) 352-334-3948 (f)

"Non, merci."--Cyrano de Bergerac

-----Original Message-----
From: Debbie Bloom [[removed]@addison.lib.il.us]
Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 12:48 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: RE: Award winning book

My version of this is "Don't trust a patron unless they have the actual
review or article in their hand."

Deb Bloom
Information Specialist
Addison Public Library
235 N. Kennedy Dr.
Addison, IL 60101-2499
630-458-3318
[removed]@addison.lib.il.us

-----Original Message-----
From: Carla Hutchens [[removed]@oplin.lib.oh.us]
Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 8:36 AM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Re: Award winning book

One of the things that I learned in library school that has served me well
over the years is that "the patron is always wrong". If the patron says the
book is new, it is old. If they say it is set in Africa, it is set in Asia.
In other words, never take for granted that the patron knows what he or she
is talking about (without being offensive, of course). It opens your mind
to all the possibilities.
.
-------------------------------------------------------------
Carla Hutchens
Director
Guernsey County District Public Library
Cambridge OH
http://www.gcdpl.lib.oh.us

-------------------------------------------------------------
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jane Jorgenson" <[removed]@yahoo.com>
To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 7:15 PM
Subject: Award winning book

> I have a patron who's looking for an award winning
> book. She thinks it won a Pulitzer for fiction
> although scanning the list of winners didn't ring any
> bells for her. So the award could be something else
> (we did look at the Bookers and National Book Awards).
>
> She thinks the author is Scandinavian or has a
> Scandinavian sounding name, that the book may be part
> of a series, it is set in the middle ages and may have
> midwives in the title or in the book.
>
> Karen Cushman's children's book title The Midwife's
> Apprentice sort of seemed familiar to her but she's
> sure the book was an adult title.
>
> Any thoughts?
> TIA,
> Jane Jorgenson
> Alicia Ashman Branch - MPL
> Madison, WI
>
> __________________________________________________
> Do You Yahoo!?
> LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience
> http://launch.yahoo.com
>
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
>

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