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1. �� In what year was Eunice Wayman really born?� Explain how you decided which was the correct date.

First I searched for Eunice Wayman in the online Biographical and Genealogical Master Index. It returned her name as also being Nina Simone. So I did a search for Nina Simone. It returned several entries with different birthdates: 1933, 1935, and 1940. The majority of the entries were for 1933. So I checked Notable Black American Women and it gave her date as 1933. That told that she was a musician and knowing how musicians can be if she was going to lie about her age it would probably to be younger, making 1933 most likely. So with all those things agreeing I decided 1933 must be the year she was born.

I first checked the online Biographical and Genealogical Master Index and it gave several sources one of those being the Encyclopedia of European Cinema (1995). So I checked in it and it said that she was the first to make fiction films in 1896, but after what you said about �technical� achievements I thought that there may be something else. So I looked in Katz�s The Film Encyclopedia (1994), which I�ve used myself for some things so I know it�s pretty good. It told that she experimented with sound in some of her early movies. So thinking that sounded technical but not very definite, I took a chance with a book series nearby on the shelf that looked good, The International Dictionary of Films. The second volume covers directors and filmmakers. It says that Ms. Guy used Gaumont�s (who she worked for) �chronophone� to make the first sound films. So that sounds pretty technical so that�s my answer.

3.�� Find instructions or an explanation for a technique called raiku (spelling may vary).

When I first saw this word, my several years of Japanese told me this looks like a Japanese word. Actually �rai� is a word usually associated with lightning, but that doesn�t apply here. So I first searched the online Oxford dictionary for �raiku� and it said it couldn�t find the word but it did return close results, the first being �haiku�, but the second was a word �raku�, and it was listed as technique for making pottery, so I thought that might be it. Also �raku� and �raiku� are pronounced almost the same if you aren�t accustomed to Japanese pronunciation. So I went checked some other dictionaries and they lead me nowhere, so I decided I�d turn to Google and searched for �raiku and pottery� and got sites about pottery using the term raiku so I think they are the same term.

I went to Jackson Library�s Virtual Reference Shelf and to the General section where it says Almanacs and Calendars are. They have a link under calendars for the �The Christian Year�; it gives dates for all holidays in any year. So I searched for 1560 and by the Julian Calendar Easter that year was on Sunday, April 14, 1560.

5.�� How many fillies have won the Kentucky Derby?� Who were they and when did they �� win?

I went to the online version of the World Almanac called the Expanded World Almanac, through the Jackson Library page. I searched for the keywords �Kentucky Derby� and �fillies� and it gave 3 sources, the second actually being titled �Kentucky Derby� from the World Almanac and Book of Facts, so I went to it. At the bottom of the page they have a little note with a �*� beside it and it says �Regret, Genuine Risk, and Winning Colors are the only fillies to have won the Derby.� So I searched the list for those horses and here�s what I found:

6.�� Where does mystery author Barbara Vine live, and where should I write her?

I first went to the online Biographical and Genealogical Master Index (can you tell I like that thing). One of the sources it returned was Who�s Who in America 2001. When I looker her up in it, it said to see Ruth Barbara Rendell, her real name. It gave two addresses, both in England:

Since it didn�t say which address you should write to I checked in Contemporary Authors (CANR 127) and it gave her home address as the second one, so that�s where you should send your fan mail.

7.�� Find a biographical sketch of the first male president of the oldest of the �Seven Sisters� Colleges.

I first went to the Encyclopedia Britannica Online through Jackson Library and looked up �Seven Sisters�. The first hit was an article on the Seven Sisters colleges. It says they are Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, Radcliffe, Smith, Vassar and Wellesley. Each of the schools had a link (Barnard�s is at Columbia�s site, and Radcliffe�s is at Harvard�s), so I went to each to see the year they were started.

So Mount Holyoke is easily the oldest, but the Britannica listing does not mention anything about a male president. So I went to the Virtual Reference Shelf at the Jackson Library site and they have a section for colleges and universities so I went to the one that said �Universities and Colleges� because it said it had homepages to schools. So in there I searched the M�s for Mount Holyoke and went to their homepage. So on that page there is a search box, and I searched for �male president� and it took me to a page on the history of the school. And searching the page for �male� I found that Roswell G. Ham was the first male president in 1937. So I searched their site for more information on him. They first link (http://www.mtholyoke.edu/lits/library/arch/col/rg4ni.htm) was to an archive inventory page, that has a paragraph that gives a biography about him.

8.�� Find a list of Ethel Smyth (or is it Smythe?)�s works. Are any of them currently available?

I first looked up Ethel Symth in the online Biographical and Genealogical Master Index. It returned a list of sources, most dealing with music, so I looked her up in the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2001) because I thought it was good when I was doing the stuff in the workbook. Grove had a very long list of all her works which I copied down on my paper and it covered a page front and back so I�m not going to re-list them here. She did stage productions (operas I believe), vocals, orchestras, chamber music, and writings. I could not find any of her works in Atkins but I did see some when I searched UNCG�s library.

9.�� Look up the date of Tet for 2000 in three (3) different sources.� Describe how you found the answer in each.

I really wasn�t sure where to start with this one. So I looked at the Jackson Library Virtual Reference Shelf and looked at the first almanac The Expanded World Almanac. I searched for �Tet� and one of the results came back with �Chinese Calendar, Asian Festivals� so I looked at it and it pointed out that Tet and the Chinese New Year are at the same time, but I couldn�t find a date in this source. So I went to the next almanac Infoplease and searched for �Chinese New Year 2000.� The second result for the Chinese New Year gave date for 2000-2011, saying that in 2000, it was on Feb 5^th.

So I looked in the 2000 edition of the Time Almanc at Atkins Library. I searched for Tet but it wasn�t in there, so I checked for Chinese New Year. The page it sent me to had lots of holidays but under Chinese New Year it said that year it would be on Feb 5^th.

So then I decided to try UNCC�s Electronic Reference Shelf. I went to the Encyclopedias and the first one goes to Answers.com. So I typed in Tet and it didn�t give any dates, but at the top it had a section for �T�t� so I went there. So knowing it was the same as the Chinese New Year, I clicked on a link in the text for �Chinese Calendar�. It only had the dates for 2003-05 but at the bottom they had a link to a page saying �rules for Chinese Calendar� and it took me to a page done by the math department at the National University of Singapore. In the text they list the New Year for 1997-2006 and again it says 2000�s was on Feb 5^th. Not the best method but it was there.

10.�� Where is Drangajokul, what is it, and how is it pronounced?�

I checked in the Columbia Gazetteer of the World and found an entry for �Drangaj�kull�. It says it is a glacier in NW Iceland in the north part of Vestfjar�a Penninsula and it rises to 3,035 ft. at 66� 10� N and 19� 42� W. It is pronounced �DROUNG-gah-YUHR-ku-tuhl�, not that that really makes it easier to say.

For those of you who just LOVE answering reference questions, here is an oldie from a while back.� This is a no-credit question, and it is not required that you try to answer it.� But is you dare, be prepared to wander around in the stacks looking for superceded volumes . . .

PUZZLE QUESTION�� (not a �required� question--just for �fun�): Each part of the question depends on the part before.� Think logically about each part of the question. Where would you go to answer each part, given what information is included?� Verify each piece of information, even if it is not essential to answering the question. I have given you some extra info which you will recognize when you get to the source.� Present your answer to each part in abbreviated format if you wish, but don�t leave anything out..

NOTE: The question below was composed ca. 1992. You most likely will have to use older editions of the �logical� reference sources in order to be able to work this out.

�� The fastest safety-razor barber in the world has the same last name as the 1991 press secretary of the Missouri representative who served on the Select Committee on Hunger.� If you remove the last letter of the representative spouse�s maiden name, you have the name of a person who won a �Working Woman�s Award� from a magazine in about 1983 (or did she report the award? I can�t remember!) and the name of a Missouri city incorporated in the same year that the first celestial photograph was taken by a chemistry professor.� He (the chemistry professor) married a woman whose father had been court physician to a king.� The country in which the king ruled is now run by a man whose father once shot a political rival on the senate floor, and who (while he was listening to the Rolling Stones, according to one source) studied economics and journalism at a university located in a city all of whose principal buildings were designed by which notable architect?