So far today...

• Where can I find this month's Rolling Stone?
• Where can I find the journal Review of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry from 1997?
• Do you have any of these several small papers from the 1950s from Medford, Bend, or Klamath Falls?
• Do you have the Black Panther newspaper from the 1970s?
• Why can't I borrow this 1920s government document from the University of Washington via Summit?
• I have ten minutes before my contacts burn through my eyeballs, and I need to find articles about arranged marriages in the Elizabethan period.
• How do I rotate a PDF document?

Lots of newspaper questions today. Weird how that works.

Blackwell, African Books Collective, and archipelago have turned up some decent titles for the comp lit fund.

Going tonight to see a dance performance based on the works of outsider artist Henry Darger, who spent his whole miserable, impoverished life painting little girls with nascent penises. Should be interesting.

So far today:

• Where can I find out how to write my daughter's birthdate in Japanese characters?
• Do you have a book about the life and works of Cardinal Bellarmine, published in 1928?
• Which of the computers has sound, so that I can listen to my exercises in my German class?
• Where can I find a copy of Gardner's Art Through the Ages?
• Do we have electronic or paper access to the journal Geopolitics from 1999?
• Why isn't my print job working? (Blackboard uses frames; it messes up more student print jobs than anything else.)
• Where would I find books by Dorothy Dunnett?
• Can you tell me whether this magazine (didn't catch the title) is in Writer's Market?
• I'm trying to find out information about a teacher I had in Drain, OR, twenty years ago. The local newspaper doesn't keep its own archive, and neither does the local paper. The school doesn't have any records that far back. Where else can I look?

Desperately trying to spend comparative literature funds. For some reason, this isn't easy. There don't seem to be very many publishers focussing on comp lit topics, or if there are, I don't know them yet. And every time I think I've got a likely title, I find we already own it.

Second desk shift, still the first day back. So far...

• How do I use the printer?
• Where can I get a copy of The Tipping Point? (All Summit copies are out; 50+ holds at EPL. Answer: um, buy a copy?)
• If the UO's copy of a book isn't in, how can I get hold of a copy from another library?
• Where can I find the journal Accident Analysis and Prevention?
• What is the phone number for the Computing Center?
• Where can I get a copy of The Rape of Nanking?
• To whom can I send promotional materials for cinema studies books? (It irks me when vendors call the reference desk. I spelled my name out for her without mentioning that I'm the one she'll be contacting.)
• Where can I find these issues of American Behavioral Scientist, Communication Research, and Asian Journal of Communication?
• How do I get DuckWeb to show me what I actually owe this term, so I can print that out and my family can pay the bill?
• Where can I get a copy of the book Nahuas and Spaniards : postconquest central Mexican history and philology?

So far today on the desk:

• Where can I find books about Japanese woodblock prints? More specifically, about the Japanese artist Kiyoshi Saito?
• Where is the Chiles Business Center?
• Where is Proctor 41?
• Where is Proctor 41?
• Where is Proctor 41?
• What is the call number for Library Literature?
• Where is Proctor 41?
• How do I find out what books I need for my classes?
• Where is the Documents printer?
• How do I log into my university email for the first time?
• What's the e-reserves password for this term?
• Where is Proctor 41?
• Where is Prince Lucien Campbell?
• Where is the Main printer?
• Where can I find the journal Information Storage and Retrieval?

And, from the files of randomosity:

Prepping for a class I'm teaching on Thursday, I'm researching minorities in higher education. The rates, especially for African-Americans, are a bit depressing. But that's not news.

David Duchovny has a blog. I find this amusing.

Cracked Pots in Portland looks like a very cool organization. They make art, particularly garden art, out of stuff that would otherwise go to the landfill.

Secret message to my dad, who recently told me he reads this blog: you need to find a place like Recycled Gardens for Mum. Four dollars a gallon for plants! How much damage could she do?

Blogger/Firefox has eaten my last couple of posts, which is demoralizing. Here's hoping tonight's makes it out alive...

• Where can I find a video for learning Spanish?
• What is the elevation of Eugene, OR? (426')
• Where can I access the Department of Labor's Union Annual Financial Reports Data Search System?
• How can I set up my computer to access the Library's wireless system?
• Where can I find UO history theses?
• Where can I find a copy of Heidegger's book on Plato?
• Where can I find help on using EndNote with different databases? And where can I look for articles on geographic, architectural, and cross-cultural studies? (Patron wouldn't clarify...)

Blogger/Firefox has eaten my last couple of posts, which is demoralizing. Here's hoping tonight's makes it out alive...

• Where can I find a video for learning Spanish?
• What is the elevation of Eugene, OR? (426')
• Where can I access the Department of Labor's Union Annual Financial Reports Data Search System?
• How can I set up my computer to access the Library's wireless system?
• Where can I find UO history theses?
• Where can I find a copy of Heidegger's book on Plato?
• Where can I find help on using EndNote with different databases? And where can I look for articles on geographic, architectural, and cross-cultural studies? (Patron wouldn't clarify...)

Blogger/Firefox has eaten my last couple of posts, which is demoralizing. Here's hoping tonight's makes it out alive...

• Where can I find a video for learning Spanish?
• What is the elevation of Eugene, OR? (426')
• Where can I access the Department of Labor's Union Annual Financial Reports Data Search System?
• How can I set up my computer to access the Library's wireless system?
• Where can I find UO history theses?
• Where can I find a copy of Heidegger's book on Plato?
• Where can I find help on using EndNote with different databases? And where can I look for articles on geographic, architectural, and cross-cultural studies? (Patron wouldn't clarify...)

The course is over! Long live the course. Or something.

The class I was teaching with my friend/colleague Annie Zeidman-Karpinski is finished and done. We spent Friday grading final assignments, which took about ten hours, and which frayed us both pretty seriously. We're going to do a presentation at the Oregon Library Association conference next month on how an introvert humanities librarian and an extravert science librarian can co-teach an interdisciplinary research methods course without killing each other or themselves. Should be good.

Also, I just inherited ethnic studies as a subject specialty. Cool.

So far today:

• Where can I find the book that has Heidegger's essay "Gott is tot" in it?
• Where can I find books that show me how to write grants?
• I'm searching in PsycInfo for articles on mere exposure effect. How can I limit and focus my results?
• Do you have my lost keys? (This was asked by a patron who didn't speak, or, apparently, hear. My ASL is seriously rusty. We had lost keys, but they weren't hers.)
• Where can I find issues of the weekly magazine Outlook from 1911 and 1912?
• Where can I find books about the history of Great Britain and China around 1750-1860?
• Where can I find a copy of the book Altered States of Consciousness?

The desk is finals-week sloooooow.

So. Very. Busy!

• Where can I find articles about family income and student employment?
• Where can I find articles about family income and student employment and political affiliation?
• Where can I find articles about ethnicity and gay marriage?
• Where can I find articles about how gender and income affect views of CEOs?
• Where can I find these HQ call numbers?
• Where can I find these BF call numbers?

There are a lot of sociology projects due on Friday, is all I'm sayin'.

• If I wanted to take a train from New York City to Vera Cruz, Mexico, and then back up to Texas, in 1919, how could I do that? What companies ran railways at that time, and where did they go, and how much did tickets cost, and what times did the train run? (Asked in a peremptory and hostile manner by a man who prefaced his question with, "Here's a library school reference question." I don't actually remember being taught how to answer that kind of thing in library school. Fortunately I once did a research project of my own on English train schedules in the 19th century, so I struggled through.)
• There was a general strike in Chicago in 1919 that was a major news and political event. Where can I find out more about it? (Same patron. This time he actually meant Seattle. I would bear him no ill will except that he also took the opportunity to quiz me on what "IWW" stands for. In-depth reference questions are one thing; mysterious pop-quizzes are another. I passed. This probably means he'll come back and ask me another question sometime.)
• I'm looking for articles that connect ecocriticism to literacy work. (Clarified to: I'm looking for anything that shows a relationship between regional literature and literacy education. I.e., is literacy taught differently in southern France than in the PNW, based on local or regional literature?)