Homework Is Fun!

F0r one of my assignments I had to locate a patent, which are conveniently located at our engineering library which is in the math building for some reason. Before I headed over there though I decided to look through the patent guides which are conveniently located on their website.

After much thought and deliberation I decided what product I wanted to look for and after checking several patent websites, I was able to locate a record, but not the actual patent itself. Much like everyone else on the planet I only go to the library as a last resort (which I guess is hypocritical since I want to become a librarian), fortunately I was on campus today and happened to be headed in the direction so I headed on in.

There I found the service desk and asked one of the women who was busy playing a game for some help. She was very nice and began looking for the patent on sites that I had already checked, but I let her go with it anyway and pretended I was shocked when her search queries brought 0 results. After confessing that she wasn't sure whether we could locate it or not, she suggested that we might need to consult the patent librarian who just so happened to be walking by the desk at the time. I can't tell you how old he was but I'm pretty sure he came over on the Mayflower. This man began doing a complicated search and was able to locate patents for products similar to my own. In the meantime, another woman at the service desk had begun searching for the patent and pulling up sites about my product.

And what exactly did I request a patent for that had 3 reference librarians drop everything they were doing for almost half an hour?

A little product I like to call

The Flowbee!

Something tells me the phrase "vacuum haircutter" has never been spoken within those walls.

Always glad to leave my mark.

2:^)