LIBRARY REFERENCE QUESTIONS

Bonnie Ryan
T: 315-443-4674
E: bcryan@library.syr.edu

These are some simple questions that we have actually received at the Reference Desk at Bird Library in the past couple weeks. Try to answer as many of the questions as you can using Library resources, print and electronic, not the Internet. Along with your answer, give the citations of your sources, including page numbers if the source is in print, or the database if electronic.

1. I am looking for a video on Kenya for a class presentation.
   
   
   
2. I am looking for a book about Southwest Airlines with the word “nuts” in the title. I think the author’s name is Freiberg, or Frieburg.
   
   
   
3. I need a New York Times article on the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald. I know it sank on November 10th, 1975.
   
   
   
4. I’m doing a paper on the practice of witchcraft in different countries. Where do I start?
   
   
   
5. I am looking for books on the motion picture industry in the U.S.
   
   
   
6. I am doing a paper in PSY 335 and I need journal articles about personal relationships among college students – dating ,etc.
   
   
   
7. I need to know about the religious practices of the country of Comoros.
   
   
   
8. What are the five largest countries of the world by population? By land mass?
   
   
   
9. What is the current rate of exchange between the US dollar and the Kenyan shilling?
   
   
   
10. I am looking for peer-reviewed articles on body image of African Americans.
    
    
    
11. I want to know if you have the journal Dialectical Anthropology available electronically for the year 2002. I
    want pages 1-18.
    
    
    
12. I am looking for something on reserve for my class, HST 371. I am supposed to be able to print it out.
    
    
    
13. I am looking for primary source documents of Frederick Douglass, preferably letters.