tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60404642024-03-23T10:44:00.237-07:00All-consuming curiosity, one page at a timeThis is the weblog of Karen Munro, E-Learning Librarian at the University of California, Berkeley.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger142125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-62978684916875121652008-04-22T11:18:00.000-07:002008-04-22T11:21:40.198-07:00Hello! Here are the latest reference questions from the Moffitt and ENVI desks at Berkeley, as well as from chat reference:I'm looking for fiction in Moffitt Library. (Sent to the PS35xxs to browse, after talking about the way fiction is cataloged in academic libraries.)I'm looking for articles written by Robert Alter on Hegel and Judaism. (ATLA, MLA, Philosopher's Index, RAMBI)I'm looking for Unknownnoreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-46937646173571561552008-02-22T15:26:00.001-08:002008-02-22T15:29:54.424-08:00Hello! Here's the latest crop of questions from the reference desks at UC Berkeley:I need to find these citations from this (very strangely formatted, incomplete) list given to me by my instructor. Do I look them up in Melvyl or Avery? Which part should I look up in each case?I'm researching early tourism in Hawaii, around the turn of the century when the trend was just starting. Where should I Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1100237483920865282008-02-01T10:34:00.001-08:002008-02-01T10:39:25.923-08:00After a long lull, here's another crop of questions from the Moffitt, Environmental Design, and chat reference services at UC Berkeley...I'm looking for a copy of the book Crack-Up at the Race Riots. (Melvyl)I'm looking for books on Kafka--specifically, literary criticism from a psychoanalytic perspective. (Melvyl, conversation about LCSH for lit crit and benefits of browsing.)I need to find Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-65468222066305379622007-11-16T12:31:00.001-08:002007-11-16T12:34:01.472-08:00Hello! A fresh batch of reference questions from Moffitt and Environmental Design. Things are busy at the desks right now--we're in week twelve (?) of a fifteen-week term. People are researching madly.I'm doing a paper on women as domestic workers across national borders--i.e., nannies and house cleaners. Where can I find background info to start refining my topic? (Referred to Ehrenreich's Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-40763949494522747032007-11-13T16:56:00.001-08:002007-11-13T16:58:47.131-08:00Hello! Here are the latest reference questions from UC Berkeley's Doe/Moffitt and Environmental Design reference desks, as well as from our pilot IM reference project...I'm looking for books and articles about traditional roof design in Japan, Korea, and China. I'm interested in temple and palace roofs, not thatched roofs or residential/vernacular architecture. (Melvyl, Avery.)I need to write a Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-31499504903117979672007-10-29T10:35:00.001-07:002007-10-29T10:42:54.770-07:00Hello! Here's the latest from the Environmental Design and Moffitt Reference Desks, at UC Berkeley.I'm looking for books about gay people's relationships with their siblings. Not books about birth order or psychological theories, but about how adults and young adults relate with their gay siblings. (Melvyl)I need to know about development pressures all up and down the CA coastline. I.e., I wantUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-8587328752528334672007-10-22T13:53:00.001-07:002007-10-22T13:57:17.664-07:00Hello! Here's the latest from the Moffitt Reference Desk, the Environmental Design desk, and the Doe/Moffitt chat reference pilot project:I'm looking for an issue of the Journal of Canadian Studies that seems like it should be on the shelf--but it isn't. Is it in remote storage? (Yup.)I'm looking for these proceedings from a conference about floodplains and riparian habitat. (Google, Melvyl.)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-29647832859234018862007-10-12T10:19:00.000-07:002007-10-12T10:23:34.585-07:00Hello! Here's the latest from the Moffitt and Environmental Design Reference desks, as well as an occasional question from IM reference. Our meebo pilot has been running for about a week now, and while it's still pretty low to the ground, we're starting to get some business. (A few questions an hour is fine, because we can do other stuff in the meantime. Low-investment, low-risk.)I'm looking Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-90457552022512457312007-10-03T16:54:00.001-07:002007-10-03T16:56:15.057-07:00I'm pleased to announce (and link to) the Doe/Moffitt Chat Reference pilot project!I and seven other librarians at UC Berkeley are offering live chat reference services for 16 hours a week, until December 19. We're just getting off the ground, but we're eager for business--come ask us your questions!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-30884484068254518992007-09-19T10:12:00.001-07:002007-09-19T10:16:15.572-07:00Here's a selection of questions from the Moffitt and Environmental Design reference desks...I'm looking for a volume of Architectural History from 2006.I'm looking for statistics on graduate and undergraduate students by sex. Basically, I'm interested in research showing that more undergraduates are female, and more grad students are male. I.e., more female students don't continue on to grad Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-9786597744381532712007-09-14T09:33:00.001-07:002007-09-14T09:39:00.214-07:00The latest from the Moffitt and Environmental Design reference desks...I'm looking for information about the sociological aspects, history, and trends in renting vs. owning homes in the United States. (Avery, Soc Abs)I'm looking for maps of Los Cabos in Mexico. I need relatively detailed maps of the city as it is now, as well as maps of how it looked in the 19th century. (Referred to Earth Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-58809198343270168272007-08-28T16:24:00.000-07:002007-08-28T16:28:33.924-07:00Hello!We're back into the fall term here at Berkeley--my second full fall term, since I arrived here December 1 of 2005. I remember it took me until my third fall at Oregon to feel comfortable and not too anxious about the sudden upswing in instruction requests, reference questions, and general demand. This year I'm a little insulated by the fact that I'm not a departmental liaison, but the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-63833508593360111092007-07-17T12:03:00.000-07:002007-07-17T12:08:42.457-07:00Hello! It's summer, and things are a little slower at the desk, but we still have summer classes to keep us going. Here's the latest list of questions from the Moffitt Reference Desk and the Environmental Design Reference Desk:I'm looking for information on women and melodrama, to support my thesis casting women in the role of "progress," and men in the role of "regression" in these kinds of Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-10766549172435351002007-06-20T16:39:00.000-07:002007-06-20T16:43:23.125-07:00Hello! Here's a chunk of the backlogged questions from the last term or two, at Berkeley's undergraduate and environmental design reference desks. I'm interpolating the sources I used to answer the questions in parentheses--not all questions have sources yet, because I've only started recording sources in the last few months, and some questions have been simmering for longer than that...I'm Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-89612127031175405352007-06-11T12:36:00.000-07:002007-06-11T12:38:10.405-07:00A very quick post, just to mention that I've installed a Meebo Me widget on this page, which means I'm now chat-ready! Shoot me your reference questions, and I'll see what I can do!I'm also installing one on my home page (http://library.berkeley.edu/~kmunro), so I'm actually chat-ready in two places at once...I'm back from vacation, plowing ahead, and will post more reference questions soon.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-51085213582399495062007-05-11T10:55:00.000-07:002007-05-11T11:02:01.655-07:00Hello! We're in finals week here, so the last few weeks have been heavy on the desk, and now we're about to enter a hiatus. Here are some of the questions that have come across the Moffitt and Environmental Design desks in the last semester. (Again, I'm starting to post comments about how I answered the questions, but not all questions will have answers as I go through my backlog of past Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-24724859359092782372007-04-17T10:47:00.000-07:002007-04-17T10:54:09.645-07:00I'm both encouraged and dismayed by the recent article in The Chronicle of Higher Education, on the imminent death of reference desks. (http://chronicle.com/temp/email2.php?id=gdsg4pjjtWWGqc4gjpgpRf43VkdZSTcp, link good for five days for non-subscribers.)Encouraged because this is a conversation we need to have--reference desk service needs to be rethought.Dismayed because of this quote: "SinceUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-80879246895883742492007-04-06T11:28:00.000-07:002007-05-02T18:28:46.864-07:00Hello! It's the week after spring break, and the reference desk is seeing major activity.I'm going to start adding notes about some of the sources I've used to answer the questions. Because I only started adding source notes recently, and because I pull these questions from a larger pool, some of which have been marinating for a long time behind the scenes, some questions may not have source Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-91808240863957088232007-03-16T10:05:00.000-07:002007-03-16T10:08:57.309-07:00Hello! Here's the latest crop of questions from the Moffitt and Environmental Design reference desks...I'm looking for a copy of Thomas Schumacher's book on the Danteum project; if I can't find the book, I'd like to find some content from it online, and some substantive reviews.I need to know average climate information for Vancouver, BC. I'm interested in degree-days, amount of sun, Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-24648648654014045912007-02-14T15:27:00.000-08:002007-02-14T15:30:21.610-08:00Hello! Here's the latest batch of reference questions from the Moffitt and Environmental Design reference desks...I'm looking for a plan of Blake Garden, which is where the Vice Chancellor of the University lives.I'm looking for information about Levittown, NY. It was the first designed suburb in the United States. I need information like census data on demographics, maps of the neighborhoods, Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1169575422520584852007-01-23T09:59:00.000-08:002007-01-23T10:03:42.540-08:00Hello! Freshly back from ALA Midwinter in Seattle, I toss a few more recent reference questions up...I need a copy of the California Planning Handbook.I'm looking for an English-language thesaurus that I can take home with me.I need a copy of the play The Laramie Project.I need to know if we have current issues of the Journal of the American Association of Arabic Teachers.I'm looking for some Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1168023164922309962007-01-05T10:49:00.000-08:002007-01-05T10:52:44.936-08:00Happy new year! Here's the latest crop of questions, from the Moffitt and Environmental Design reference desks...I'm looking for articles or reviews of the Crawford House from the San Francisco Chronicle.I'm looking for the records of the League of American Architects--they're shelved at NRLF. How can I get at them, and when?I need to find an article on Brian Friel in The Irish Review.I need Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1163092951632889102006-11-09T09:18:00.000-08:002006-11-09T09:22:31.653-08:00The latest crop of questions, from the Moffitt and Environmental Design reference desks...I'm looking for primary sources, probably newspaper coverage, of a case that went to the Supreme Court in 1974. It was Lau v. Nichols, about bilingualism.I'm looking for primary sources about African-American soldiers during WWII. I'd like to find newspaper articles and also letters and diaries.I'm looking Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1161100999865390422006-10-17T08:59:00.000-07:002006-10-17T09:03:19.890-07:00The latest crop of questions, from the Environmental Design Library and Moffitt Library:Where can I find a copy of the Berkeley Landscape Heritage Plan?I want to look for a special issue of Detail magazine; I think it was on construction, but I can't remember exactly, now. I'd remember if I saw it, though.I'm looking for a citation for some research that my professor needs. A study was done that Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1160435347973799532006-10-09T16:04:00.000-07:002006-10-09T16:09:08.023-07:00The latest crop of reference questions, from Moffitt and from the Environmental Design Library desk:I need reviews of King Vidor's silent film The Crowd, published at the time the film was released.I need a copy of my Earth Science textbook; does the library have one?I need a guide to diagramming, but searching on the word "diagram" in the catalog gets me all kinds of stuff in hundreds of Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0