tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60404642011-10-11T02:22:11.860-07:00All-consuming curiosity, one page at a timeThis is the weblog of Karen Munro, E-Learning Librarian at the University of California, Berkeley.Karennoreply@blogger.comBlogger1421100tag: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 Karennoreply@blogger.com28tag: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 Karennoreply@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 Karennoreply@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 Karennoreply@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 Karennoreply@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 wantKarennoreply@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.)Karennoreply@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 Karennoreply@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!Karennoreply@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 Karennoreply@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 Karennoreply@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 Karennoreply@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 Karennoreply@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 Karennoreply@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.Karennoreply@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 Karennoreply@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: "SinceKarennoreply@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 Karennoreply@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, Karennoreply@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, Karennoreply@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 Karennoreply@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 Karennoreply@blogger.com2tag: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 Karennoreply@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 Karennoreply@blogger.com1tag: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 Karennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1158338686039811712006-09-15T09:42:00.000-07:002006-09-15T09:44:46.063-07:00The latest crop of reference questions, from both the general undergraduate social sciences/humanities desk, and from the Environmental Design library desk:I have the call numbers for a couple of articles--how do I find them? (Note: He didn't have article citations at all, so we went back into MLA and found them. He got it once he was shown.)How can I get a book from the Graduate Theological Karennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1156455465043586752006-08-24T14:32:00.000-07:002006-08-24T14:37:45.093-07:00We're halfway through Welcome Week here at UC Berkeley, so it's high time to drag the Bibliophagus blog out of summer storage, blow off the dust, and start posting again. I'm not working very many hours on the reference desk this fall, due to other commitments (which I hope to start posting about more regularly in my library blog--I'm just waiting for our library to firm up its blog software Karennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1149091098998851622006-05-31T08:52:00.000-07:002006-05-31T08:58:19.016-07:00Hello! Posts are getting far and few between, due to summer session and intersession. I'm not on the desk very many hours, and when I am it's slow. Still, I have overflow from the regular term, and I'm getting a few questions here and there. I'll try to keep posting semi-regularly through the summer, for those faithful few who check in now and then...Here's the latest crop:Mary Midgley wrote Karennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1147372546290025252006-05-11T11:31:00.000-07:002006-05-11T11:35:46.303-07:00Instruction has ended here, and we're into the final frenzied days of students writing papers and cramming for exams. Desk hours are going to slow down soon, and I'm about to go on a week's vacation, so the pickings may be a little slimmer for a while. But here's the latest batch to tide you over:I have the names of two people who went to Cal, and I need to find out information about them. I Karennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1146007228229243662006-04-25T16:12:00.000-07:002006-04-25T16:20:28.243-07:00I recently heard from a colleague that she recognized some of the questions in the blog as coming from her MLIS students. To which I say: busted! I'm pleased, though, that another colleague may be looking at the blog as a model for sharing reference information in another library on campus. Happy to be of service (if I am...)And here's the latest batch:I need a copy of the book Tropic of Karennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1145055117341141472006-04-14T15:41:00.000-07:002006-04-14T15:51:57.353-07:00The latest crop...I'm looking for articles about Vermeer and the paintings he did on the subject of letters--i.e., letter-writing studies. I want to find full-text articles that are peer-reviewed. Art Full Text isn't producing any full text articles. What should I do?Where can I find a copy of the journal History and Philosophy of Science?Where can I find a copy of Orlando, by Virginia Woolf? I Karennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1144452094993676192006-04-07T16:16:00.000-07:002006-04-07T16:21:35.003-07:00The latest batch of reference questions...I need a copy of the book City of Quartz. All the (numerous) Cal copies are out or on reserve. How can I get one? (Asked twice in one shift--the second time was apparently just a coincidental request by someone who wanted to read the book for pleasure. Unfortunately, every single copy in the system is somehow spoken for.)I'm looking for a book by RonaldKarennoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1143152395660229492006-03-23T14:10:00.000-08:002006-03-23T14:19:55.693-08:00Returning visitors may notice I've changed the look of the blog. Fear not! I've been meaning to do this for a while now, mainly because the template in my last blog was mysteriously malfunctioning and I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to make the text and sidebar play nicely. So, a clean slate for the whole thing. I think the new template is nice and clean-looking.I'd also been Karennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1142642343634563732006-03-17T16:29:00.000-08:002006-03-17T16:39:03.646-08:00Here's the latest batch of questions...I'm looking for development statistics on Barbados. I'd like to find information about the economy, health, demographic figures, etc.I need a copy of the novel Absalom, Absalom! itself. I keep finding criticism of the novel instead.Where can I find transcripts of NPR shows that aren't on Lexis-Nexis?Is there a way I can find out what fires are happening in Karennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1141939101658836132006-03-09T13:14:00.000-08:002006-03-09T13:18:21.670-08:00Sorry for the long delay in adding new material: I've been out of town for a couple of days, and the reference desk has been pretty slow. Here's the latest batch:Where can I find a German-English dictionary?I need both scholarly journal articles and grey literature about the environmental effects of gold and copper mining in Indonesia. I'd particularly like to find some Indonesian government Karennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1140828241019988402006-02-24T16:39:00.000-08:002006-02-24T16:44:01.030-08:00The latest crop of questions from the Moffitt Undergraduate Library, mixed and muddled in terms of dates asked:I need Bartlett's quotation dictionary.I need several books about the confraternite romane--i.e., the Roman confraternity--in Italian. Several are held here but out to users for months. Others are at the Law Library where I can't borrow them. A few are in Melvyl, but since UCB Karennoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1140127460562269142006-02-16T14:00:00.000-08:002006-02-16T14:04:20.573-08:00The latest crop of reference questions...I'm looking for information on the percentage of local and national content on publicly- and privately-owned radio networks.I need to get grounded in the newest theories about federalism and separatism. I've read the Federalist Papers and I've formed a theory about federalism, but my professor says I need to know what the mainstream of thought on the Karennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1139424038585687012006-02-08T10:38:00.000-08:002006-02-08T10:40:38.596-08:00Here's the latest crop of reference questions, some fresh and some staler...I need a copy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's On the Origin of Language. It has to be in English.I'm looking for scholarly articles about the disappearance and murder of Native American women in Canada over the last few years.I'm looking for information about contraband camps during the Civil War.I need a copy of the Karennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1138745892154379552006-01-31T14:12:00.000-08:002006-01-31T14:18:12.166-08:00At long last, a new post! I've cleared the blog with my supervisors, so I'm okay to continue posting anonymized reference questions, now from the Moffitt Library desk at Berkeley. My shifts so far have been a little slow, mostly because we've just come back from break and many students aren't working on their assignments yet. I've also been coming up to speed on the local procedures--the Karennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1135192726398738862005-12-21T11:12:00.000-08:002005-12-21T11:18:46.416-08:00Apologies for the long interruption in services. I've changed positions from Literature Librarian at the University of Oregon, to E-Learning Librarian at UC Berkeley. The shift is disorienting, exciting, definitely challenging, and every once in a while, sublime. Berkeley is an amazing and complicated place, with a very different library structure from the one I've been used to. I'm learning Karennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1131660447198936132005-11-10T14:02:00.000-08:002005-11-10T14:12:39.330-08:00The latest crop of reference questions...Where can I find an article from a French-language newspaper or magazine about Hallowe'en? Where can I find books and articles about organic foods and the health consequences of eating them? What business publications does the library have? Where can I find an annotated edition of The Purloined Letter? Or even just one with an introduction to the Karennoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1131412595131426482005-11-07T17:10:00.000-08:002005-11-07T17:18:42.120-08:00Here's the latest batch of questions at the Knight reference desk, scrambled to help protect the identity of the queriers: Where can I find books about slavery in ancient Greece? Where can I borrow a laptop? Where can I get an online copy of an article from the Journal of Theological Studies from 1965? How do I find an article in sociology? How do I get into Ulrich's? Where can I findKarennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1129934826584834782005-10-21T15:42:00.000-07:002005-10-21T15:47:06.600-07:00The newest crop of reference questions, scrambled and tossed so the dates of the queries aren't apparent:How do I find a print copy of an article titled "Girl Trouble" from Media Week magazine? I can't find this French journal in WorldCat. Where else can I look to see if it exists?Where can I find this article from The Chronicle of Higher Education, about funding pressures on research, if it Karennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1129759868156181862005-10-19T14:20:00.000-07:002005-10-19T15:11:58.226-07:00Today's reference book of the day:American Attitudes: Who Thinks What About The Issues That Shape Our Lives, 3rd edition.Susan MitchellNew Strategist Publications, Inc.2000This is a single volume that shelves in our reference collection next to the Gallup polls and in the general neighborhood of social activism, protest, and action. (HN 90 .P8 M58.) It collates American public opinion on a wide Karennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1129145754443641082005-10-12T12:17:00.000-07:002005-10-12T12:35:54.450-07:00I've been busy on the desk lately, training our student employees and answering the usual flood of directional and logistical questions. But here's the first crop of reference questions I said I'd keep posting. These are questions accumulated over the last couple of weeks, scrambled so the date they were asked isn't obvious. I'm doing it this way in an attempt to further safeguard the identity Karennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1127935509371823532005-09-28T12:03:00.000-07:002005-09-28T12:25:09.413-07:00We're back in full swing now, and I'm spending my hours on the reference desk training student assistants and answering questions. The reference muscles are rusty, but they're coming back. It's nice to see the place active again.I've spent the summer thinking about the privacy/confidentiality issues raised by posting patrons' questions to the blog. The process has been long and there's been a Karennoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1127233597136003472005-09-20T09:04:00.000-07:002005-09-20T09:28:01.313-07:00I'm back at the desk after two weeks' vacation, and while it's a bit of a shock to the system, it's still good to be back. We're on the quarter system, so we won't get the real deluge until next week, but we're already seeing a change in the reference area demographic. The summer users are mostly community members and a few summer students, and there's a lot of emailing and slow, casual web Karennoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1125941593525960792005-09-05T10:32:00.000-07:002005-09-05T10:33:13.530-07:00I'll be on vacation between now and September 16, so there won't be any new posts during this time. Thanks for reading, and please check back again mid-month!Karennoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1125438865813285552005-08-31T16:39:00.000-07:002005-08-31T16:39:46.290-07:00The theme for today's reference books is: California. Because Better Half and I are going there next week for our vacation, and because we have a couple of cool, underutilized books in the collection (as well as the usual Lonely Planets and Moon guides, which are useful but not really exciting.)A Companion to CaliforniaJames D. Hart, University of California Press, 1987"This work is intended as aKarennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1124830863230914552005-08-23T13:16:00.000-07:002005-08-23T14:01:06.696-07:00The world of reference is strange and mysterious. A couple of days ago I profiled the Statistical Handbook on Women in America. Today as soon as I went out to the desk, someone wanted to see statistics about the numbers of women on welfare in the U.S., by race. We found more recent tables in the Statistical Abstract, but going to the Statistical Handbook on Women in America found more specific Karennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1124401166545692632005-08-18T13:45:00.000-07:002005-08-18T14:52:34.260-07:00I've been a little busy lately, and because we're in summer intersession, I haven't been on the desk very much. But this morning I got a comment from some kind soul saying "more posts, please." And because I live to oblige...Two reference books today, because the desk is quiet and I need the practice. Taken more or less at random from our reference collection, we have:The Language of the Civil Karennoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1123178975825858542005-08-04T10:52:00.000-07:002005-08-04T11:09:35.833-07:00Guide to American Poetry Explication James Ruppert, G.K. Hall & Co., 1989Thanks to Steven Harris, head of collection development at Utah State and erstwhile supporter of the LES New Members Discussion Group, for this one. At ALA Annual in Chicago, Steven gave us a brief talk about explication guides. They are now my new favorite toy. Basically, explication guides are books that painstakingly Karennoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1121791414967915512005-07-25T10:50:00.000-07:002005-07-25T10:52:35.873-07:00I've been a little quiet lately because I've been spending spare moments cleaning up the links in the sidebar, rather than posting about print reference materials. I'm getting more interested in finding examples of good online instruction, and in using this blog as a personal website, with links to the tools I use most (so I don't forget where they are, which I sometimes do.)But I noticed this Karennoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1121212436560825632005-07-12T16:30:00.000-07:002005-07-12T16:53:56.566-07:00Explorers' and Travellers' Journals Documenting Early Contacts With Native Americans in the Pacific Northwest, 1741-1900.Bob Bjoring, Susan Cunningham.University of Washington Libraries, 1982This is an interesting book, in part because it's a kind of grey literature. It's the product of a Department of Education-funded project done by the Pacific Northwest Collection of the UW libraries in 1982.Karennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1120861920440378722005-07-08T15:17:00.000-07:002005-07-08T16:21:59.440-07:00Radical periodicals in America, 1890-1950 : a bibliography with brief notes. With a genealogical chart and a concise lexicon of the parties and groups which issued them.Walter Goldwater, ed.Yale, 1966 (revised edition.) 51 p.An annotated list of English-language periodicals published in the US, "of a 'radical'--i.e., Anarchist, Communist, or Socialist--nature" (vii) during the dates mentioned Karennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1120859252669900252005-07-08T14:13:00.000-07:002005-07-08T14:47:32.680-07:00Thanks to those who responded to my last post, mulling issues of patron confidentiality and posting reference questions online. The issues involved here are still confounding me, I have to admit. For the moment, therefore, I'm going to stop posting reference questions on a regular basis. I may start again in the future, but the summer is probably a good time to back off and consider some of Karennoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1120092503458515722005-06-29T17:05:00.000-07:002005-06-29T17:49:15.786-07:00ALA was great, Chicago was great, 90 degree weather is great when you live in the PNW and it's barely fifty degrees in mid-June. My hair frizzed, but I can deal with that. Overall, a very good time.I talked to the RUSA Hot Topics in Frontline Reference discussion group, on the kind invitation of Cheri Smith, about this blog. It was an interesting discussion. A lot of people are using blogs inKarennoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1119041903107488882005-06-17T13:43:00.000-07:002005-06-17T13:58:23.113-07:00So far today:How can I find particular works by Gadamer in English? The catalog lists them in German, and my German isn't particularly good, and it's hard to predict what the translation of the title will be. Sometimes there's more than one translation, too.I'm a new student from Taiwan, and I'd like to find some books in Chinese. I'd also like to learn how to use the catalog to find books, Karennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1118786423551166132005-06-14T13:21:00.000-07:002005-06-14T15:00:23.610-07:00Things have slowed down a lot at the reference desk in the last few days, because final exams ended last Friday. The campus is empty now. I love a college town in the first weeks of summer. All the faculty and staff walk around with strange expressions on their faces. Expressions of relief and calm.But for some strange reason, the desk is a madhouse today.I'm looking for information on YorubaKarennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1117752922280743182005-06-02T14:25:00.000-07:002005-06-02T15:55:22.333-07:00Second shift of the day...Where can I find these articles in recent issues of Journal of Neurological Sciences?Where can I find Japanese art history? (Resolved into: where can I find information about a particular era of Japanese scroll art?)Where are the British Parliamentary Papers?How do I limit my search in PsycInfo to return items about mere exposure effect?Where can I get a copy of MiltonKarennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1117742327043527592005-06-02T12:18:00.000-07:002005-06-02T12:58:47.070-07:00I've been taking a few days off posting, just catching my breath after the rush of the last couple of weeks. Also, the desk has slowed down and there have been a few shifts without too much of interest to report. So far today:Where can I find a copy of Histoire du nouveau monde in Spanish?Where can I find this article about T. rex and birds, which MSNBC.com says was published in Friday's Karennoreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1117047408627877072005-05-25T10:12:00.000-07:002005-05-25T11:56:48.680-07:00So far today:Do you have the Houston Chronicle or any other Texas newspaper subscriptions? If you have online access to those papers, would the classified section be indexed too?Where can I recycle magazines in the library?How do I get hold of this dissertation, which was done in 1963 at the University of Missouri-Columbia? Do you have the November 2001 issue of The Dalles Chronicle? What Karennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1116820710895536812005-05-22T18:23:00.000-07:002005-05-22T20:58:30.943-07:00So far tonight (3 hours, Sunday evening):Where can I find scholarly reviews of The Nazi Seizure of Power? How can I tell whether the journals I see listed as having reviews in BRI are scholarly or not?Where can I find books about employment law? (Resolved into: my employer is refusing to let me work for a perceived competitor. I want to research the law surrounding this.)Where can I find Karennoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1116547634815438622005-05-19T17:06:00.000-07:002005-05-19T17:07:14.820-07:00Yesterday's and today's shifts have been too busy to try to record questions as I go, and I'm in reference overload, so I'm not remembering them either. Regular services will resume when we get through week 8, or when my brain reboots. Whichever comes first.Karennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1116370703411300562005-05-17T14:06:00.000-07:002005-05-17T15:58:23.480-07:00So far today:Do you have a copy of the book Parenting From the Inside Out?How can I find research articles about teaching students about tidepools? I can't find the full article for anything that I look up in ERIC or BIOSIS--I keep getting sent to abstracts and nothing else.I'm looking for a book titled Black Power, by Kwame somebody...I forget who. (Turned out to be Stokely Carmichael, who Karennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1116270201435463482005-05-16T10:05:00.000-07:002005-05-16T12:03:23.383-07:00So far today:Where can I find The International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis?How do I find an academic book about wildlife refuges?How do I open a GIF file?Where can I find out more about the National Women's Magazine, which was adopted as the official publication of the National Association of Colored Women?Where can I find the text of some addresses given at the Tanning Art Karennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1115956781396506042005-05-12T18:04:00.000-07:002005-05-12T20:59:41.456-07:00So far tonight (3 hour evening shift):Where can I find articles on binge drinking? (This was the uber-reference interaction. The student had been looking on the Internet, didn't know about databases at all. Caught on quickly, saw the advantages, and actually said, "I'm glad I asked." I felt an irrational surge of triumph.)Where can I find books about Nietzsche? Where can I find a biography Karennoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1115765431698370212005-05-10T14:07:00.000-07:002005-05-10T15:50:31.793-07:00So far today:Where can I find Italian-language articles about Virgil's Aeneid?Where can I find anything the library has on nihilism? (There's a joke in there somewhere...)Are these sentences from my autobiography grammatically correct? Can you help me to style my prose, to make it more meaningful and have greater impact?Where can I find an index to The Oregonian from the nineteenth century?Karennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1115679509446147232005-05-09T15:21:00.000-07:002005-05-09T15:58:29.516-07:00So far today...Where can I get a copy of There's a Boy in Here? (A large Special Education class is looking for lots of books on disability studies. A lot of the books are out right now, and the pickings are getting slim.)Where can we find articles about primary education in Bangladesh? We're looking in the catalog, and it's not working. (Students mentioned that they were seniors.)Where can IKarennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1115409612904005422005-05-06T12:19:00.000-07:002005-05-06T13:00:13.003-07:00Aaaand I'm back on the desk again. I've had something like 17 hours on the desk this week. TGIF, before I melt down.Where can I find a handbook or guide to basic concepts in philosophy?Where can I find books on death and dying--i.e., the right-to-die movement, and attitudes about death?How can I find lesson plans about tidal pools?How can I find a popular-press article about parenting method Karennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1115398834567586632005-05-06T09:07:00.000-07:002005-05-06T10:00:34.650-07:00So far today (early Friday morning, slow shift):Where can I find a list of all current English knights?Where can I find out more about a visiting faculty member at UC Berkeley--like, where he did his PhD, and what courses he's teaching now?Where can I find the book Disabled rights : American disability policy and the fight for equality?Where can I find information about American poets' anxieties Karennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1115254761551502922005-05-04T16:08:00.000-07:002005-05-04T17:59:21.633-07:00It got ridiculously busy on the desk after 5 pm today. It's hard not to get frustrated with all the students who leave things to the last minute, then show up and want help searching the catalog or reading their assignment. There have been a lot of those today. I got slammed, four students lined up at a time for half an hour, and I'm sure I've forgotten some of the questions they asked.Where Karennoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1114991958708023322005-05-01T13:21:00.000-07:002005-05-01T16:59:18.710-07:00Four-hour Sunday shift, with a student. So far, at my desk:Where can I find books about how disabilities are represented in film?Do we have an online database with biographical information?Where can I find an overview of the arguments against and for assisted suicide?Where can I find samples of action research in education?Where can I find more books by Jorge Ibargüengoitia?Where can I find a Karennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1114818731648302162005-04-29T15:23:00.000-07:002005-04-29T16:52:11.650-07:00So far today:How do I find peer-reviewed articles about ethics in school psychology?How can I get hold of a copy of the Hate Crime Statistics Act?Where can I find a recent copy of Rolling Stone?How can I find a particular article in American School Board Journal, if I don't know which issue or volume it was in?Do you have the journal Community College Weekly?How can I find articles in popular Karennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1114747157476573502005-04-28T18:51:00.000-07:002005-04-28T20:59:17.476-07:00Either I have bad Blogger luck, or my account is on some glitchy server real estate. Yesterday's post was eaten. So here's what's come up so far today, along with what I remember of yesterday: Where can I find information about the Knights of the Golden Circle?Where can I find information about the Pacific Republic, which was the proposed name for the country that Oregon, California, and Nevada Karennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1114455402210060902005-04-25T11:04:00.000-07:002005-04-25T11:56:42.213-07:00I've been out of town for a few days, up in Spokane at the Washington Library Association's conference. Spokane's a nice city, or at least I liked what I saw. The rapids that run through the middle of town were beautiful. Lots of snowmelt this time of year, which equalled a very big white fall coming out of the dam. Gorgeous.The preconference panel I sat on ("One Size Doesn't Fit All") was Karennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1113594731175014322005-04-15T11:09:00.000-07:002005-04-15T12:52:20.603-07:00So far today:Where can I find the GDPs and other economic indicators of different countries in the world?What is the phone number for the Wal-Mart in Eugene?Where are your tax forms? (With the IRS, sir! Ba-dum bah!)Why don't the call numbers work? (From a student in yesterday's FIG TA class, trying to track down a book in the PN4788s, and getting stuck at PN47.88 or thereabouts.)Where can I find Karennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1113537578872044572005-04-14T18:31:00.000-07:002005-04-14T20:59:38.873-07:00So far tonight (3 hour shift, very slow):Where can I find a book I can take and use in my faculty carrel that gives biographies of 20th century British politicians ? (The Oxford Companion that we keep in Ref had no previous editions in the stacks. Int Yearbk and Statemsn's Who's Who not specific enough.)Do you have any books on how to write resumes?Where can I find some introductory-level Karennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1113419015919060622005-04-13T11:47:00.000-07:002005-04-13T12:03:35.920-07:00So far today: Where can I find books about the Yugoslav War of 1991-1995? Where can I find research about sex education in full text? Where can I find lesson plans for teaching chemistry to middle school students? Where can I find an encyclopedia and a dictionary? What are those books that describe the contents of other books? (Bibliographies?) Where can I find information about Karennoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1112313556868434572005-03-31T15:31:00.000-08:002005-03-31T15:59:16.870-08:00So 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 Karennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1112212537648913742005-03-30T10:56:00.000-08:002005-03-30T11:55:37.650-08:00So 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 Karennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1112054365126627142005-03-28T14:13:00.000-08:002005-03-28T15:59:25.133-08:00Second 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?Karennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1112039871544044422005-03-28T10:07:00.000-08:002005-03-28T11:57:51.550-08:00So 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 Karennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1111121389459116082005-03-17T18:54:00.002-08:002005-03-17T20:49:49.463-08:00Blogger/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 Karennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1111121353127545632005-03-17T18:54:00.001-08:002005-03-17T20:49:13.130-08:00Blogger/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 Karennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1111121332087204882005-03-17T18:54:00.000-08:002005-03-17T20:48:52.090-08:00Blogger/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 Karennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1110841251351118972005-03-14T13:31:00.000-08:002005-03-14T15:00:51.356-08:00The 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 Karennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1109815359782329852005-03-02T17:32:00.000-08:002005-03-03T17:29:16.503-08:00So. 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 Karennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1109465982625951732005-02-26T13:21:00.000-08:002005-02-26T16:59:42.630-08:00Saturday afternoon, sunny and beautiful, 56 degrees outside. And so I'm in the reference area, answering questions for four hours.Where are the drinking fountains?Where can I find this [incorrect, incomprehensible] call number? (It was for the Europea World Yearbook regional volume Africa South of the Sahara.)Are the issues of Variety and The Economist that I want available in print, or only onKarennoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1109365466870606952005-02-25T12:16:00.000-08:002005-02-25T13:04:26.876-08:00Week eight of a ten-week term = student panic attacks. Several of my own students are freaking out, and they're not alone. The reference area is busy. So far (within one hour):How can I narrow my search on courtship and dating over time? Where can I find scientific articles about chlamydia? [No relation to above question.]Do you have phone books for all of the states in the U.S.?Can I scan an Karennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1108701058161407442005-02-17T18:09:00.000-08:002005-02-17T20:30:58.166-08:00Please remind me, the next time I decide to buck the trend and actually teach a citation style, that there is no pleasure to be had in grading citation styles. Especially when you're teaching APA, and contorting it to apply to the hard sciences, to masses of government documents, and to all sorts of other non-social-sciences things that it was never really meant to handle. Tonight on the desk...Karennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1107982569722215152005-02-09T13:18:00.000-08:002005-02-09T12:56:09.723-08:00My better half is Louisianian, so last night we had a Mardi Gras party. There was king cake (with bean!), jambalaya, muffaletta, gin gimlets (I don't know why), beads, doubloons, and paper money for Chinese New Year. Also birthday candles for a friend's daughter, who just turned fourteen. We see no reason to compartmentalize our holidays.
There was also a fair amount of beer. The reference Karennoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1107892811463173252005-02-08T10:22:00.000-08:002005-02-08T12:00:11.463-08:00I think I mentioned that our reference department just got a blog of its own, but I didn't provide the link. Here it is:
http://knightref.blogspot.com/
I feel like a new mother!
Okay, not really.
Where can I find the book Nation State in the Center of Europe, by H. Schulz? (Actually Schulze, and not a book--a chapter inside a book by Hagen Schulze, called Germany: A New History. A copy wasKarennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1107815871755203822005-02-07T14:37:00.000-08:002005-02-07T14:38:01.246-08:00Just a note to self:
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=How_to_research_front_groups
Useful site.
Karennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1107492913419134182005-02-03T19:05:00.000-08:002005-02-03T20:55:13.420-08:00I've been out of the country for a few days, and taken up with grading my students' assignments and planning class, so I haven't seen much active reference desk duty. Things keep happening in my absence, though. For one thing, we got a departmental blog for our reference questions (http://knightref.blogspot.com). Cool.
Things are quiet tonight, which is good. I'm behind in my indexing for Karennoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1106596812768457172005-01-24T09:59:00.001-08:002005-01-24T12:00:12.766-08:00Monday morning, a foggy day in Eugene. We're starting week four of the term, and the reference area is pretty busy.
How do you spell "dichotomy"?Do we have any copies of the actual diary of Anne Frank, as opposed to the play adapted from it? (This is actually sort of hard to tell from the catalog, because of the way titles are listed when they're not originally in English.)Where can I find a Karennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1106594517068850702005-01-24T09:59:00.000-08:002005-01-24T11:21:57.066-08:00Monday morning, a foggy day in Eugene. We're starting week four of the term, and the reference area is pretty busy.
How do you spell "dichotomy"?Do we have any copies of the actual diary of Anne Frank, as opposed to the play adapted from it? (This is actually sort of hard to tell from the catalog, because of the way titles are listed when they're not originally in English.)Where can I find a Karennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1106164156705826862005-01-19T11:16:00.000-08:002005-01-19T11:49:16.706-08:00Back from ALA, plunged into the cold-water dive tank of teaching 4 credits and ministering to neglected faculty. And a split shift on the desk today. Installment one yields:
How can I find this article that Business Source Premier says should be available online? Morphed into: How can I find articles about Social Security privatization in Academic Search Premier? From a student I've helped Karennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1105667686775426522005-01-13T16:15:00.000-08:002005-01-13T17:54:46.776-08:00In a whirlwind of activity, pre-ALA. Teaching class, planning next week's classes, prepping for committee meetings, doing desk hours, indexing for ABELL (@#!! midwinter deadling), and generally keeping the good ship afloat. My feet hurt and I want to go home and watch Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid.* Except I did that last night. When all else fails, eat chocolate and watch a Karennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040464.post-1105469887859482282005-01-11T10:05:00.000-08:002005-01-11T10:58:07.860-08:00Just one hour on the desk today..
Where can I find the complete poetical works of Thomas Traherne, 17th century poet?How can I figure out what citation style this list of references is in? It was left with me by a professor who doesn't know what style it is either; it's not any of the major styles. I need to add more references to the list, and I don't have enough examples in the list to Karennoreply@blogger.com0