Reference Questions, 3/17/10

St. Patrick's Day at the ref desk. I have on my green and I'm ready to answer questions and accept any job proposals. :)

1. Looking for a dictionary
2. Looking for books on the CIA for a research paper
3. Looking for the reference section
4. (Phone) Needed help accessing an article in PsycInfo
5. Needed guest log in
6. Needed to use guest print card to print
7. Looking for sources on fast food franchises
8. Had a question about Amtrak from Greensboro to Raleigh
9. Looking for the book drop
10. Looking for the Foust Building
11. Needed to use guest print card to print
12. Looking for the book Voices from the Storm: The People of New Orleans on Hurricane Katrina and Its Aftermath by Lola Vollen and Chris Ying
13. Needed help accessing PsycInfo
14. Looking for sources for a research paper about gender similarities or differences in academic achievement
15. Looking for Sophocles Oedipus Rex
16. Nursing student looking for articles on art therapy for children, couldn't find anything in CINAHL so I suggested looking in PsycINFO
17. God bless the nursing students. They always have interesting searches. The one that I suggested PsycINFO to needs evidence based articles and PsycINFO does have an option for that on the search page. So I suggested using evidence based as a search term. I'm sure she'll be back up to the desk again shortly.
18. Someone looking for Lynda
19. Question about the ref computers
20. Looking for sources on acculturation
21. Needed research help on an education topic
22. Looking for a book in the closed stacks
23. Needed guest log in, but said they weren't doing research so I couldn't give them one
24. Looking for the book The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson
25. Student from #21 had another question about education research
26. Looking for his class, they were meeting in the CITI lab, I believe he was an hour late

A normal shift which is always nice. Now off to finish up a presentation and eat some veg sushi, I hope. :)