From newborg@lib.pdx.edu Mon Feb 22 18:59:20 1999
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 17:09:26 -0500
From: Gwen Newborg <newborg@lib.pdx.edu>
Reply-To: Discussion of Government Document Issues <GOVDOC-L@LISTS.PSU.EDU>
To: GOVDOC-L@LISTS.PSU.EDU
Subject: SuDocs prayer

I found the prayer on my bulletin board.  Here it is for those who've
never seen it.
The Public Printer is my tormentor
  I shall not smile
He maketh me to work all day for naught
  He leadeth me astray with misnumbered issues
His Roman numerals confound me
  He changeth titles over and over for His own sake
Yea, when I walk through the shadow of missing and irregular issues
  I find no respite, for He has dropped and added titles
He answereth not my letters nor uses the item numbers
  He sends not my claims, and microfiche for paper issues
My work never endeth
  Changing class numbers and duplicate issues shall follow me
All the days of my life
  And I shall moan and groan in the Library
Forever.

After 30 years in only 4 more months this will no longer apply to me!


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