This has occasionally happened with me - especially for book requests, when someone finds and utilizes our online request form. If I don't recognize the name (hey, we're a small campus!) or if the email address isn't a Wabash.edu one, I typically just email back, enquiring about the individual's relationship to our campus community. Often, that's the end of it right there. Amusingly, I've had a couple of women claim to be incoming freshmen. Wabash is all-male.
Susan Susan Albrecht Library Media Acquisitions Manager Graduate Fellowship Advisor Wabash College Lilly Library 765-361-6216 (acquisitions) 765-361-6297 (fellowships) 765-361-6295 fax albre...@wabash.edu<mailto:albre...@wabash.edu> www.facebook.com/wabashcollegelibrary.films<http://www.facebook.com/wabashcollegelibrary.films> http://pinterest.com/wabashcolllib/ ******************************************************************* "If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice." --Neil Peart ******************************************************************* From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Bergman, Barbara J Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2015 10:58 AM To: <videolib@lists.berkeley.edu> Subject: Re: [Videolib] email requesting dvd purchase possibly a fraud Ask what class it's for and/or that email be sent from a campus address. ~Barb On May 14, 2015, at 9:39 AM, Gretchen Lieb <grl...@vassar.edu<mailto:grl...@vassar.edu>> wrote: Hi all, I may be becoming overly cynical, but I find this email claiming to be from an incoming freshman highly questionable. I'm wondering if any of you have heard from Angelina Zhang. I suspect this is a vendor's nom de plume, since I've never received an email like this from a freshman thinking ahead about their research and what films they'll require. I hope I'm wrong! Here's the email: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Angelina Zhang <angelinaqizh...@gmail.com<mailto:angelinaqizh...@gmail.com>> Date: Tue, May 12, 2015 at 2:34 PM Subject: The Land of Many Palaces DVD? To: researchh...@vassar.edu<mailto:researchh...@vassar.edu> Hello, I will begin school in the fall and plan for my research to be on Ordos, China. Do you have "The Land of Many Palaces" about Ordos on DVD? I will need to study it in the fall. Thank you, Qi Zhang __________________________________ Gretchen Lieb Research Librarian Film and Video Librarian Vassar College 845-437-5770 VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
