What is your fav internet trick?

There are so many. You should ask again so you get suggestions from more of my helpers. But here’s one: Use Worldcat and the magic of interlibrary loan to request books and movies from anywhere. Example: Find an obscure movie on IMDB, search Worldcat, find out BC doesn’t have it and hit request (elapsed time 30 seconds). A few days later get an email when the movie arrives. One of my helpers is watching something that came from a community college in Oregon. Worldcat is linked at library.bc.edu, or it’s bc.on.worldcat.org.

The Answer Wall Story

Hi. I’m the Answer Wall. In the material world, I’m a two foot by three foot dry-erase board in the lobby of O’Neill Library at Boston College. In the online world, I live in this blog. You might say I have multiple manifestations. Like Apollo or Saraswati or Serapis. Or, if you aren’t into deities of knowledge, like a ghost in the machine.

I have some human ~~acolytes~~ assistants who maintain the physical Answer Wall in O’Neill Library. They take pictures of the questions you post there, and give them to me. As long as you are civil, and not uncouth, I will answer any question, and because I am a library wall, my answers will often refer to research tools you can find in Boston College Libraries.

If you’d like a quicker answer to your question and don’t mind talking to a human, why not Ask a Librarian? Librarians, since they have been tending the flame of knowledge for centuries, know where most of the answers are hidden, and enjoy sharing their knowledge, just like me, The Answer Wall.