E-ref questions, Morris County Library

E-ref questions, Morris County LibraryFall 1999, E-ref
Morris County (NJ) Library
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Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 19:10:34 -0400 (EDT)
query: Is there a web site where I can find a list of Morris Cty. pre-schools?

Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 10:23:02 -0400 (EDT)
query: I am an XXX injured on the job. My injury will most likely prevent me from doing my regular job. People have told me that the Americans w. Disabilities Act guarantees that my employer must provide me with some kind of continued employment at my present salary. Could you please clarify this, and tell me where in the ADA or similar New Jersey legislation I can locate this aspect of the law?

Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 18:11:20 -0400 (EDT)
query: I need information on John Gardner and how his real life related to that of his character, Grendel

Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 13:11:55 -0400 (EDT)
From:@brookes.ac.uk
query: examples of analytical bibliographies?????

Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 13:17:48 -0400 (EDT)
source: I've used this service before. You fols are an invaluable resource!
query: What's the best reference to identify small businesses in East Hanover? The blue book (the title escapes me -- 2 volumes, NJ businesses by town) I'vr used in the past doesn't seem to list really small businesses like delicatessens, small restaurant s, etc. There used to be small independent yellow pages devoted to a single town or a couple of adjacent towns, but I haven't seen one in years. Are they still produced? And would that represent a good source?

Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 19:13:50 -0400 (EDT)
query: How do I find out where I am on the list for a reserve book?

Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 19:43:49 -0400 (EDT)
query: Any books on the movie Twelve Angry Men?

Date: Sat, 23 Oct 1999 19:51:17 -0400 (EDT)
query: Positive attitude, Health, Inspirational Stories

Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 12:55:25 -0400 (EDT)
query: I am trying to find a Mendham High School Yearbook-(1983). [Out of area patron, in area HS]

Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 16:20:05 -0400 (EDT)
query: Where can I find the journal East European Industrial Monitors and where can I find it indexed?

Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 18:03:39 -0400
query: can I get journal articles and theses through you? I currently need J Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery 1995, 109:1066-1074 by Shahian et al and a thesis from University of Technology, Sydney by Eugene Bohdan Seneta 1997 "Automated Numerical Optimisation of Implantable Defibrillation Electrode Configurations" [local business]
Follow up resulted in this info:
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 13:20:59 +1000
To: @main.morris.org
From: ILL
Subject: Loan of Dissertation
We do not lend dissertations, but a microfiche copy can be made for at a cost of A$80.00. If you wish to purchase a copy of a thesis, please send your request and a prepayment cheque in Australian dollars. This cheque should be made payable to University of Technology, Sydney. If the thesis is less than 2 years old, the authors permission, if not already given will be required. Regards

Patron asked for two books by a cartoonist...located one, couldn't find other, even in LC, BUT located e-mail for cartoonist. Sent query to the artist, this reply:
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 11:02:22 EDT
I have a lot of copies of "XXX!" I'd be glad to send him one.

Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1999 23:32:39 -0500 (EST)
school: on
source: Virtual reference library
query: what is cloning? how is biotechnology used in agriculture?
[Out of country patron...despite using several permutations of address, all replies bounced back.]

Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 14:06:07 -0500 (EST)...... school: source: I was in a lecture for a library and information science's class I am taking. Yes I am going to become a librarian and this site was brought up in a future of reference lecture patron: will cooper query: I have a partial quote...I need the verify this quote and want to know what speech it was said it. I believe the speaker was LBJ. Here is the quote, as I remember it. "This nation is mighty enough, it's people are strong enough, it's society is healthy enough, to pursue our goals and the rest of the worlds while still building a Great Society here at home." I don't think it is from the Great Society speech, although I am not sure...please help [This is a test...had it been an actual alert....We do get these from time to time, though usually not so plainly labeled. We always answer them.]

Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1999 09:38:10 -0500 (EST)
query: Do you have a videocassete or an audio cassette of the play "Blues for Mister Charlie" by James Baldwin? If you do not, can you possibly get it in?

Date: Sat, 6 Nov 1999 12:51:19 -0500 (EST)
query: My grandson , age 7, collects sample library cards. He would really like receiving a card from you library. [name, address]. Thank you for your consideration of this unusual request.

Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 13:42:02 -0500 (EST)......From a library in Connecticut
query: Election results for race in which Tito Santana was a candidate? Possibly for city council in Roxbury Township? [Santana is a former WWF wrestler, so this was regarded as a Jesse Ventura kind of campaign.]

Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 14:42:06 -0500 (EST)
source: You have helped me in the past!!! I am a Morris county resident for many years.
query: How can I find a list of all condominium and townhouse communities in Morris county whether there are units for sale or not?

Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 19:40:38 -0500 (EST)......school: on
source: The permanent substitute at X HIgh School, Mrs. Y
query: I need a non-encyclopedia book sources on the woman mathematician Emilie de Breteuil (or du Chatelet, depending on the source). Her full name is Gabrielle Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil Marquise du Chatelet, if that helps. Do you have any recomendations?
FIRST ANSWER:
You can find a biography on the web at www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/women.htm We also have a reference book called Women of Mathematics and it has 4 pages on Du Chatelet. We could fax that to you or mail it. How many sources do you need? Let me know how we can help. I can look for more sources tomorrow. [We faxxed material to student's school, here in county.]

Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 11:40:23 -0500 (EST)
school: on, on ......source: From my teacher
query: Where can I find a picture of Aristarchus? If you have it can you please send it to me. Thanks You

Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 18:48:47 -0500 (EST)
query: I was searching the online catalog and came across a library listed as ROCYNEWB. What branch is this? Thanks!

Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 20:19:59 -0500 (EST)
query: Liscensed day care providers in Mendham, Morristown, Basking Ridge [In area communities...we mailed material.]

Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 21:08:00 -0800 (PST)
Would you please send me any information you have that will help me get my patented game to the market place. Send to: [name, address...on other side of the country, but we have a patent page in web site]

Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 09:36:09 -0500 (EST)
query: I am doing research on a XX that lived in Mt. Arlington in the 1890s. All I know is that he died on 8/31/18xx. I believe the The Lake Hopatcong Breeze listed his obituary. Are there old records for the Lake Hopatcong Breeze in your library? Where in Morris County might I find records such as his death certificate? [Out of area patron, in area community]
REPLY
> Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 1999 12:06 PM > You can request a copy of XX's death certificate from the > NJ Dept of Health. http://www.state.nj.us/health/vital/vs11.htm > The service, recently, has been quite prompt. Mt. Arlington was > part of Roxbury Township until at least 1887, so it would probably > be best to request it for Roxbury Township (Mt Arlington section) > We have no back file of the Breeze..our local papers only start in > 1900. I checked the NJ Census indexes for 1850, 1860 and 1870 and > do find two or three Xs, but not AX and not in north > Jersey. We have 1868 and 1887 atlases of the county. X is not > listed as one of the Mt Arlington property owners, but these are > very incomplete mappings. > If you haven't already, do drop a note to the Mt Arlington librarian, > ZZ, at z@main.morris.org .. a most helpful chap!
PATRON SAYS
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 12:54:15 -0500.......thank you very much for your reply. regards

Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 09:38:26 -0500 (EST)
query: 1.Natural resouces of Morris County (minerals,forests,soil & water).
2.Growing season, monthly precipitation and monthly temperature averages for Morris county.

Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 11:28:24 -0500 (EST)
query: Please help me find information and pictures on the vorticella.

Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 23:53:53 -0500 (EST)
query: Where can I find academic online discussion sources(not services) about digital reference services?

Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 20:32:08 -0500 (EST)
query: I would like to know what you know about the effects of labeling school children. pros and cons

Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 03:11:37 -0500 (EST)
source: The Virtual Reference desk
query: 1)Can you get AIDS from mosquito bites? 2)What are "plant variety rights"?

Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 16:00:25 -0500 (EST)
query: I was looking for information and/or reviews of the Peabody Individaul Achievement Test- Revised (PIAT-R).

Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 22:27:09 -0500 (EST)
query: I need biographical information on Gabriel Fahrenheit.

Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 07:49:46 -0500 (EST)
source: jus' ended up here
phone: 9999999999
personal: on
query: has this question been asked before? [We answered it...patron did not reply.]

Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1999 00:00:48 -0500 (EST)
source: From an acquaintance.
query: I am looking for newpaper or other printed news articles regarding the 1999 graduation of Jefferson Township High School in Oak Ridge, NJ. [Out of area patron, in area school.]

Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1999 07:45:58 -0500 (EST)
source: we are doin this big cake in school and i pick SOMESET county and I need to find historycal places so we can decorate the cake
query: canyou find me some information about somerset county ps.thankyou

Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1999 10:16:40 -0500 (EST)
source: I Didn't hear about this I saw my friends profile that she made and I would like to do the same.And then I could send it to my friends.Get it? PLEASE!! Help me. Thanks alot, sincerly Name
phone: sorry can't
query: Hello,I was wondering how I could makemy own profile and send it to my friends. Make my own page for exampel with questions and answers about me ofcourse. Do you understand that? Can You help me??????

Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 10:22:23 -0500 (EST)
query: Who have been the deans of the house? i know john dingell from MI has been one

Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 17:38:50 -0500 (EST)
query: Where can I purchase or see a book on the old Rockaway Presbyterian Church? There is possibly information on my ancestors who migrated to North Carolina mid-1700. [Out of area patron, in area church.]

Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 06:29:00 -0500 (EST)
query: What sources can I consult that will show me how people thought, and what they did daily during the early part of this century?

Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 22:39:19 -0500 (EST)
query: Where can i find books about the cell nucleus for a biology project

Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 11:31:38 -0500 (EST)
query: Is there a way I can access articles (1985) from local newspapers via internet? I'm trying to find information regarding a murder that occurred in Morris County (town name) around that time. Victim's last name was X. Any help would be greatly appreciated. [Out of area patron, in area town.]

Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 15:15:33 -0500 (EST)
query: I'm looking for information on senior citizens driving...i have to do a speech on senior citizens and if we should give them a test after a certian age to see if they should still be on the road.
AFTER REPLY, THIS
Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 18:26:22 EST thanks VERY much! the information you gave me worked out great!! :o)

Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 17:05:44 -0500 (EST)
query: I am looking for some people i have lost contact with in Poland. Do you have phone books from poland or other resources that might be helpful? thanks.

Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 11:44:17 -0500 (EST)
source: I go to your liabrary.
query: Where can we find Balto? Is it non-fiction?

Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 15:37:45 -0500 (EST)
query: I am doing a research paper on X and their management style, as they perceive it and as the outside perceives it, is it autocratic democratic etc.? I did a search of full text articles on EBSCO "x and manage*" and got no results. I am amazed that none of the management magazines/journals have not done any articles on this.

Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 11:55:10 -0500 (EST)
query: What is the population of Morris County?

Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 12:28:23 -0500 (EST)
query: WHO IS LONNIE BROSCOE?????

Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 08:47:33 -0500 (EST)
source: I have a friend that lives near that lake and I have a curiosity about the history of the area. query: What is the origin and translation of the name "Hopatcong", as in Lake Hopatcong? [Out of area patron, in area lake]
From: Morris Cty Library Sent: Thursday, December 16, 1999 12:10 Subject: RE: from MCL website > Hopatcong is the original Indian name: > 1715 land grant to James Logan by Council of Proprietors of West Jersey > .."the within tract or lot of land within the Western Division of New Jersey is the last Indian purchase made of the Indians by the said proprietors > above the falls...and name of said Pond is Hopatcong." > HOPATCONG has been variously translated as meaning: > stone over water > honey pond of many coves > hill above a body of still water having an outlet > From: > Indian Place Names in NJ, Donald William Becker, 1964 > Hopatcong Historama: 50th anniversary, Lake Hopatcong Yacht Club, > c. 1955
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 18:13:33 -0500
Thank you for your response. I am also curious to know if you could also tell from which Native American tradition the name "Hopatcong" is derived from, as in what language, sacred tradition, nation (Algonquin, Iroquois, Mantauk, Wappinger, etc.)?

Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 10:33:01 -0500 (EST)
query: What is the name of the wife (former?) of Andrew Lloyd Webber?

Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 08:54:11 -0500 (EST)
source: friend. The First Night Out web sight has a list, but no map. Such a map has been available in previous years. So, what 's the deal? query: do you have "First Night Out:Morris " maps available?

Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 21:50:19 -0500 (EST)
source: ive used it once before for another project query: I need names of books that would help me point out and research/explore the themes of William Shakespeares's Romeo and Juliet

Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 15:05:12 -0500 (EST)
source: Ask Jeeves on the internet
query: Where can I find a listing of prices of sales of large multifamily housing projects ($10 million to $25 million) in the last three years in Morris County? [Out of area patron]

Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 10:54:41 -0500 (EST)
query: what is the feture marketing trends in sri lanka

Date: Sat, 25 Dec 1999 14:52:58 -0500 (EST)
query: I am looking for a record from a reference document/CD - Germans to America, CD #355. It has passenger arrivals from Germans to the US. I am looking for a passenger list including two people who came over in (approximately) 1854. The couples nam es were X and Y Z. He should be approximately 30 years old, and I am almost sure that they came into New York. I would appreciate as much information about them as you can possibly find and make available. On this CD, you should find t he ships name, port of origin, age, family names back in Germany, occupation, etc. Thank you in advance for your help on this geneology project.

Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 14:43:10 -0500 (EST)
query: If a music CD is available at another library, is there a way to have it sent to the Morris County Library so I can reserve it from there? Can I do this by calling in or e-mail?

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