Sunday, October 25, 2009

Reference Questions, 10/25/09

Sunday evening on the reference desk, take 43.
  1. A student wanted to know if there was a color printer in at the reference computers. No there is not, but there is one in the SuperLab.
  2. (Chat) A student wanted to point out that Edgar Allan Poe's name was misspelled in an ad on the library website.
  3. (Chat) A student had a question about Chicago style citations for articles online.
  4. (Chat) A student needed to find industry information on the magazine industry and the cosmetic/beauty product industry.
  5. A student wanted to look at the new APA style guide.
  6. A student was looking for primary sources and personal narratives of the Japanese during World War II.
  7. (Chat) A student had a question about parenthetical citations in MLA style.
  8. (Chat) A student had a question about accessing e-reserves.
  9. The student from #6 returned and he decided to change his topic. He wasn't finding as many sources as he had hoped for. He is now looking for sources on the Normandy invasion.
  10. A student needed to find issues of Poetry magazine from 1913-1923.
  11. A NUR 210 student needed articles on Nurse practitioners and communication and Hispanics. CINAHL to the rescue.
  12. (Chat) A student was looking for the EBSCO Newspaper Plus.
  13. (Chat) A student looking for articles about the Crisis Assistance Ministry in Charlotte. And how to do an outline in APA.
  14. (Chat) A student wanted to know how to get abstract w/o clicking on articles.
  15. (Chat) A student looking for articles about the Crisis Assistance Ministry in Charlotte.

Most of these chats came at the same time and they all lasted for several minutes. Oh, what a night. :

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