What do you do when you have a question?
These days most people turn to the Google search bar.
The questions are recorded on small cards like those that used to fill card catalogs.
Typed on a typewriter or scrawled in loopy handwriting, the questions are sometimes notated alongside their answers.
People asked a variety of things.
One can only imagine the story behind the question.
Other questions clearly were inspired by recent events.
No answer is given on that card.
Other questions have a bit of a creepy undertone.
in the sale of cadavers?
If the librarian asked follow up questions it was not recorded.
One can only hope the librarian cautioned the caller about domesticating squirrels.
Is the squirrel query a stupid question?
There are no stupid questions, NYPL Librarian Rosa Caballero-Li says.
Everything is a teachable moment.
We don’t know everything, Caballero-Li toldNPR, But we can always point you in the right direction.
There are no stupid questions, NYPL Librarian Rosa Caballero-Li says.
Everything is a teachable moment.
