Just a routine day until 7 PM

I was on the late shift today, so I missed the campus event in memory of those lost on September 11, 2001. There were some alumni and a former trustee who perished on that horrific day. The wife of the Dean of Student Services also died in the World Trade Center. Today, I just verified some interlibrary loan requests. We received a small allotment of money to purchase books, which I'd like to spend before they take it away. At 7 PM i got a challenging question from a graduate student. He was looking for photoluminescence spectra of germanium. It turns out that INSPEC was the best database for this question since it covers the physics literature better than Scifinder or Scopus.