Can I help you?
Yes, I'd like to read some articles that are on reserve in the library for anthropology 311.
Professor Gilers's class?
That's right. How could you know?
Let's just say you are not the first person.
Oh, well, seeing as how I haven't read any of them yet, it doesn't really matter which one of them you give me first.
I'm afraid I can't give you any of them at the moment. They've all been checked out.
You're kidding all of them?
I've asked professor Gilers twice already to bring in additional copies of the articles, but no sooner do I place them on the shelves than they are gone. See that girl in the black sweater? She's been waiting for half an hour for these same articles to be returned.
And here I went out of my way to free the whole afternoon to read.