http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/authors/john-macritchie/ Recent content in John Macritchie on Ariadne Hugo -- gohugo.io en-gb Thu, 18 Sep 1997 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue/11/minotaur/ Thu, 18 Sep 1997 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue/11/minotaur/ We had a telephone call from a reader recently. “I’ve got a blackbird feeding a cuckoo in a nest in my garden - is it legal?” she asked. Public librarians perhaps encounter this sort of inquiry with greater frequency than academic librarians, but we all grow adept at the mental gymnastics required to guide the searcher to the information which will put their mind at ease. Similarly, when it comes to Internet provision there is little point in setting up a few machines and letting the public loose on them.