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1.�������� Please find authoritative information about the side effects of Lipitor. (In case you don�t remember the definition of authority, check Katz, and remember that the information in the Physicians� Desk Reference is supplied by drug manufacturers). ����������� I looked around the medical reference books and came upon a lovely purple one called �Drug Information for the Health Care Professional (2005)� in Jackson Library. It�s supposed to have the full information for every drug on the market. It is very thorough and I couldn�t understand most of it.� So I looked up Lipitor in the index and it directed me to Atorvastatin (systemic). It has a huge section on side effects on p 466 listed by seriousness and frequency. Apparently this drug causes just about everything. 2.�������� Is there a difference in how the body uses calories from fats and from carbohydrates? ����������� ����������� I first checked the Medical Reference books and got nothing helpful, but beside them were the Nutrition books. The Nutrition and Health Encyclopedia 2nd Edition says �All calories are alike, and four protein calories are precisely equal to four fat calories� in it�s entry for calories. 3.�������� Where can I find information about ����������� I could not find one single source that with this information. I did find out that the state board of elections does keep the statewide results and some are online (not to the 90�s though). The local counties also keep their election data, and depending on the county it may be online or you may have to request a copy. 4.�������� Someone told me that the expression �high five� appeared as �high fives� in African American slang of the 1920�s. Could you find an etymology of the expression, i.e., something to explain its origin and changing meaning over time? ����������� I could not find a good definitive answer. I did find some stuff. I looked it the dictionaries especially ones on slang and in African American reference books. Here�s what I did come up with. Webster�s Dictionary from 1913 says it�s the same as Cinch, some kind of card game. A book called, Picturesque expressions: a thematic dictionary, had something about how in the 30�s Jazz musicians used to say �slip some skin� and the phrase morphed into high five, but it didn�t say how. In the Dictionary of American Regional English they had three definitions. The first said that it was a card game. The second said it�s a game where you throw a jack knife into the ground and try to make it stick. The third said something about a court house (I think, I should take better notes) that had a jail on its fifth floor and it was referred to as the �high five�. 5.�������� What terms should I use to find information on multicultural education? (Is there source BETTER THAN--more authoritative than?--the Library of Congress Subject Headings? Must be) ����������� I wasn�t really sure where too look, so I just checked for reference books with Multicultural in the title or the description in the online catalog. I came up with some sources. The list of words in the Dictionary of Multicultural Education provides many terms like �Multiethnic Education�, �Global Education�, and �Ethnic Studies� and more plus more specific terms if they are needed. In the Encyclopedia of Multicultural Education the entry for Multicultural Education gives the terms �Multiethnic Education�, �Anti-racist Education�, and �Multiracial Education�. 6.�������� How many people voted to behead Louis XVI? Did anybody vote against it, and if so, who? (I don�t need to know the name of individuals, although political parties would help). ����������� When I was at Davis Library at UNC
looking for something else I happened upon a book in the reference department
named The Historical Dictionary of the French Revolution, 1789-1799 (I later
found we had it at UNCC also). In it under the heading for Louis XVI it said
that the first vote was 361 for death and 360 for reprieve or no death, a
second vote was called on 7.�������� What is the real name of the author of Up the Ivy? ����������� I first just searched the UNCC
catalog to see if they had a copy of Up the Ivy, they do and it says it�s by
Ashley Montagu. So I went to the Virtual Reference
Desk at Jackson Library and went to the first full text source, the � ����������� 8.�������� Where can I find a fairly complete list of the works of Dorothy Wellesley? (NB:Authority). ����������� I first looked up Ms. Wellesley in the Biographical and Genealogical Index and it gave a decent number of sources. So I checked the ones UNCC had. The DNB actually has some poems and many of her collections listed in the text but I wanted to look for more. Of the other books listed in the Index, Childhood in Poetry (1967) and Modern British Literature (2000), had the best lists of her works.� Both have good lists of her collections or where her poems were printed and each gives a title or two the other doesn�t. Also if you want a list of some of her more well known poems Granger�s online Poetry Index has 25 of them listed. 9.�������� Where can I get a copy of Journal of a Lady of Quality? It was written ca. 1731. ����������� I went to WorldCat
to look up this title, at first thinking it was a real journal (in the library
sense) but WorldCat says it�s a book about a �narrative of a journey from 10.������ The following written request was received by e-mail by the reference department from a local author who has been doing research in the British Library: ����������������������� Leafing through an
academic periodical the other day, in an attempt to refresh my memory about the
Chosǒn Court Orchestra, I came by chance across
an article by a twentieth-century scholar on the subject of � ����������������������� ����������� Well first I thought to check the sociology and anthropology databases for this and after searching I found nothing, so I decided to try some of the bigger more general databases. On the Database page at the Jackson Library site They have EBSCO first at the top of the page so I went to it. After searching for �Korea AND evil� and getting too many results and noticing most were about North/South Korea relations and the Axis of Evil I modified my search to �Korea AND evil NOT north NOT axis�. That gave me 19 results and looking down through the titles number 17 is an article entitled �Koreans do not believe in evil--should they?� And the abstract sounded to match the description above but it�s short so I would want to check to make sure. Since Jackson Library doesn�t have an electronic version and UNCC seems not to have the journal at all so I called up my �library aide� (ok my brother at NC State) to check out the article on the shelf. He got me a copy of the article and it seems to match up exactly with the description. The article says he interviewed about 200 people, always had an interpreter, and said that they could see evil in relationships but not that one person or thing was evil. And even better was that he said in the same journal there was an article about the Chosǒn Court Orchestra so it sounds like this is our article. The citation can be found at the website below: ����������� http://libproxy.uncg.edu:2060/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&an=9712112016 ����������� � ����������� �or I�ll just type it here: ����������� Fred, Alford C. �Koreans do not
believe in evil--should they?� ����������� And guess what, Korea Journal puts back issues online, which I only found out after I typed the rest of this and went to their webpage, maybe I should have checked that first, anyway here�s a page where you can download a pdf of the article: ����������� http://www.ekoreajournal.net/archive/detail.jsp?BACKFLAG=Y&VOLUMENO=37&BOOKNUM=3&PAPERNUM=11&SEASON=Autumn&YEAR=1997 |