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Training resources - Ideas for adding humour - Library Catalogue

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Library Catalogue

 

Here's an idea for your Library OPAC demo. Create a dummy record that you include in your training which is a spoof law book. Below is the bibliographical record for the one I use - feel free to use it if you like it (apologies in advance for the puns):

 

Title:                           Curly on Crimping

Alternative title:        The Law and Practice of Hair Crimping

Author:                       Bob Cutting; Laurie Awl

Publisher:                   Snip & Trimwell, 2012

Edition:                       12th ed.

Media Type:                Book

Classmark:                  Consumer Law

Subjects:                    Infringement

Contents:                    

Chapter 1. Hair looms, syrups and extensions;

Chapter 2. Bleach of contract;

Chapter 3. Fringe benefits;

Chapter 4. Curling and straightening;

Chapter 5. Hair today, gone tomorrow: winning with thinning;

Chapter 7. Styling and topiary;

Chapter 8. Full perms.

 

I use this for demonstrating truncation with crim* which gets you a lot of hits which you can then narrow down with a second term. Usually I say that the truncation "will give you crime / criminal / criminalisation / hair crimping" and then look for hair as the added term. Obviously, you can use the record to show whatever you want to demonstrate.

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