Some of you may have seen the little dog above before and wondered as we did at first why he seemed so happy. It finally dawned on us that he was so happy because he was a Lucky Dog. He had found the particular book he came for, quite against the odds as is always the case with the proverbial needle in the haystack.

It’s happened so many times that I have taken someone to the stacks to look for a particular title with no real reasonable expectation of having it, only to walk back exclaiming on what a Lucky Dog the seeker was today.

This is of course one of our bigger pleasures. The remaining mystery is how that little pup keeps his karma so good that he continues to be a Lucky Dog.