Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Faxing to Brazil

Who says nothing exciting ever happens in a library? Today we received a request for a copy of an article to be sent to the Ministry of Science and Technology in Brasilia. Piece of cake, right? After all, with phone lines and Internet, every place is just as close as any place else. Right....

By the time I was finished trying, I had talked to Viv in the President's Office, 3 guys in IT, and the fax machine vendor. Technology sometimes isn't as great as we expect it to be. But, like the post office, Document Delivery must go through and the article merrily beeped its way along the phone lines. I hope they don't call to say it didn't print well and can I please do it again!