LIS 407

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LIS 407

• First set of reference questions

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• What year? 1989.
• Film Review Annual (Ozer, 1990).
• The Video Source Book (2006) by National Video
  Clearinghouse.
• Halliwells Film and Video Guide (2003) for the
  year. Varietys Film Reviews, 1989-1990.
• Videohund 2007.
• DVD and Video Guide 2006.

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• Readers Guide to periodical literature How
  well live on the Moon? Popular Mechanics 165
  (3), March 1988.
• Essay and General Literature Index The Moon as
  Treshold.
• Encyclopedia of Science fiction (?)
• The Tyrannosaurus Prescription and 100 other
  essays.

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Find an encyclopedia article which discusses the
NJ devil!!! AHHHHHH!

• American Folklore An Encyclopedia
• Archetypes and Motifs in Folklore and literature
  A handbook, Sharpe, 2005.

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• Oxford Companion to Food (1999) Yes, Mr. John
  Montagu gave us Subway.
• Famous First facts International Edition He was
  obsessed with playing cards.(gambling?)
• World of Inventions (1994).
• Chambers Biographical Dictionary
• More Food Sources?
• Historical Sources?
• Linguistic Sources? American Heritage dictionary
  of the English Language (2000).

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Lenin and Stalin

• Biographies, Encyclopedias, Dictionaries? Other
  resources? Area studies.
• Who was who in the USSR? (1972) Metuchen Press.
• Cambridge Encyclopedia of Russia and the Former
  Soviet Union.
• Blackwell Encyclopedia of the Russian revolution.

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• A theater Troupe
• Cambridge Guide to Theater
• Puppet Theater Entry on The New Encyclopedia
  Britannica (2007).
• The Cambridge history of American Theater (1998).

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• New grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments
  (1991) gut, silk, wire, and plastic.
• New Oxford Companion to Music Sheep usually.
• American Heritage Dictionary of the English
  Language Yes, catgut.
• Bakers dictionary of Music yes, catgut.

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A music student would like find an Encyclopedia
article on Bauhaus

• Music or Art?
• New Encyclopedia Britannica Macropedia Vol. 1
  (2007).
• Encyclopedia Americana 1995
• Music? The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock
  Roll revised and updated for the 21 st century
  (2001).

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I need to write a letter to Cahiers du Cinema
magazine. Where can I find its address?

• Ulrichs Periodicals Directory 2004
• 9 Passage de la Boule Blanche, PARIS, 75012,
  France.
• Other resources?
• Actual title Les Cahiers du Cinema.
• International Film Industry.

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• 2nd Week of November. Existed since 1969.
• Chases Calendar of Events.
• The Teachers calendar, school year 2001-2002
  the day by day directory to holidays/ compiled by
  Sandy Whiteley 2001.

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Is there a movie called La Cite des enfants
Perdu? What is it about?

• Video and Film Guides
• Video Source Book 37th edition/2006
• Motion Picture Guide (NashRoss) 1996.

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• Words of the Vietnam War (1990).
• No questions asked box before leaving the
  Vietnam.
• Dictionary of the Vietnam war ( Olsen,
  ed.)(Greenwood Press 1988).

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• American Place-Names A concise and selective
  dictionary for the Continental USA (George R.
  Stewart).
• Clay Martin named the town after his first
  daughter, Mousie. She had a sister name Kitty.
  (Thanks God Cher did not live in that town!).

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I quit school and I want to be a writer. I want
to write crime novels, any idea about the most
common plots for them? Can you suggest some?

• The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mistery
  Writing. Oxford University Press, 1999.
• The Encyclopedia of Murder and Mistery. New York,
  1999.
• Reference and Research Guide to Mistery and
  Detective Fiction. Westport, 2004.
• A Catalogue of Crime (Taylor, Taylor, 1989).
• Magill Masterplots Series.

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What is Californium? Is that like Viagra?

• Von Nostrand Reinhold Encyclopedia of Chemistry
  (NY, 1984).
• OED!!
• Encyclopedia of Science an Technology