March reference questions

1 March: Among the many book requests in the past (quite busy) hour and a quarter, and aside from the man who suggested Borges's Tower of Babel, there have been a few requests for newspapers, movies (Death of a Salesman, by a young lady who might be a high school senior; Titanic by the little Asian kid who often comes in looking for animated films, and today asked for Fred Clause, which is out). And the senior lady who always comes over and asks the same two questions: how'd you get so handsome (the answer she expects is "good parents"); and do you have a lucky lady in your life (if the answer is yes, her followup is how many.

4 March: A mother looking for "Observations and experiments on the gastric juice and the physiology of digestion" by William Beaumont. Her 8th grade son is doing a report. Undetermined is whether he needs the book, and when he needs what he specifically needs. I did find biographies of Dr. Beaumont in the Biography Resource Center (Galenet). Two Nassau libraries own Medical marvels: the 100 greatest advances in medicine, which contains a section or a chapter entitled "Observations and experiments on the gastric juice and the physiology of digestion" by William Beaumont. Plainview Library owns a reference copy, and Hicksville owns a circulating copy. But, again, what is the time frame? I then Googled "Observations and experiments on the gastric juice and the physiology of digestion" by William Beaumont and the fourth link is a Google books link. Clicking on that shows the title page of the book. Clicking on Find this book in a library showed that several libraries own it, including the Queens College library. Her 19-year-old son goes to Queens, so she will ask him to get the book. I searched the QC OPAC and found the location of the book. She was very appreciative for my help, and I was pleased to have helped.