Reference Questions, 9/22/2009

Life is grand, for now. I got approved for funding for both of the conferences I am attending this semester. Hopefully my good luck will continue on the reference desk this evening.

1. A student needed to know how to cite an electronic source in Turabian. I wish everyone would just switch to APA. It does so much better for websites and such. Plus it is one I am somewhat familiar with.
2. (Phone) They wanted to speak with someone about the ACS journals. I gave them the Chemistry librarian's info.
3. A student wanted me to find an article that she had found previously, but she didn't know the which database she had found it in. These are always fun questions. However I was able to find it for her.
4. A student had a question about printing.
5. A student wanted to know where to pick up ILL books.
6. A student wanted to know where the print jobs are going since the ref printer is down.
7. A student wanted to know the time.
8. A student needed help finding an article in journal finder. He then wanted to know where the nearest bathroom was located.
9. A student wanted to know what an abstract was.
10. A professor wanted to borrow the Chicago Style Manual for her class.
11. A student wanted to know where ENG 701 was meeting. She thought it was the CITI lab. I pointed her in that direction.
12. A student needed an industry report. Yay! I knew how to help thanks to LIS 613. :) S&P it is.
13. A Guilford College student needed a guest username and password.
14. A student wanted to know where LIBR 032 was located.
15. A student wanted to know where LIBR 032 was located.
16. A patron needed a guest username and password.
17. A student wanted to know where the nearest water fountain was located.
18. A student needed to know how to search the catalog for book by Tennyson.
19. A student wanted to know where LIBR 032 was located.
20. A student was looking for some PolySci reference books.
21. A student needed a stapler.
22. (Phone) A GTCC student was looking for some articles in 2 different sociology journals. I can be a really nice person when I want to be.
23. The student from #20 wanted to leave those PolySci books she had found at the ref desk while she ran to the ATM.
24. A student wanted to know where he could check out a reference book. Sorry, but you can't do that.

Yay, another shift completed. :)