5 February: A story, yesterday's 5pm newscast on ABC News about an oral surgeon who is pioneering a new approach to osteonecrosis. Went on ABC website, found health story; googled NYU Dental School, searched faculty for Kenneth Fleisher.
5 February: Newspaper articles about Martha Graham. Showed high schoolers how to limit searches in ProQuest Historical newspapers using date parameters.
9 February: A patron who calls regularly, always looking for telephone numbers of companies, this morning called looked for local, as opposed to Washington DC, numbers for Senators Collins, Snowe and Specter, the three Republicans who are supporting the Economic Recovery Act (the stimulus package) in the US Senate. Curious: will she call to support or oppose?
12 February (Happy Birthday Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin): A patron asked about knot theory. There are 4 books system-wide on the subject: The geometry and physics of knot, The knot book : an elementary introduction to mathematical theory of knots, Knot theory, and Knots : mathematics with a twist
21 February: LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) is a rating system for green buildings. A patron wanted material of becoming an Accredited Professional. The Green Building Certification Institute (GBCI) has an examination for such accreditation.
An 11th grader working on the Lincoln letters assignment could not find any information on the 73rd Illinois Regiment. A google search produced some results: a book entitled Illinois in the Civil War; The US Army War College at Carlisle Barracks (though searching within the site timed out); Illinois in the Civil War site.
26 February: A senior asked for Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich, 1840-1893. Quartet: D major for 2 violins, viola and violoncello: Op. 11. HWPL, of course, owns it. Amazing music collection. Now, the question arises: just exactly how is Peter Ilyich's patronymic spelled? I've seen variations over time: Tchaikovsky, Tschaikovsky, Tchaikowsky, and so on.
27 February: a college student asked for print and electronic sources to use for a paper he's doing on the adaptation of killer whales. Gave him list of publications (Daedalus, Discover, Kids Discover, National Geographic, National Geographic Kids, Natural History, Omni (last issue 4/95), Physics Today, Popular Science, Science, Science News, Scientific American, Sea Frontiers, Sky & Telescope, Smithsonian), and showed him how to use Access Science and Galenet.
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