Morris County (NJ) Library
Questions received online are running about two a day. See earlier discussion of service and previous quarters of questions and answers. Surprising number of questions continue to be from local patrons or from remote patrons needing local information.
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 19:39:41 -0400 (EDT)
query: I am interviewing with a company called X Corporation located in Salem, OR. Can you help me get some information about them?
Oregon patron. Referred to company web page and to his/her local libraries.
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 09:57:25 -0400 (EDT)
query: Is there a way through your web site to access historic municipal bond prices?
For example I need to find out the values of the following bonds on January 31, 1994:
1. $100,000 Essex County, NJ 5.2% due 12/1/94
2. $100,000 Perth Amboy, NJ 5.4% due 9/1/94
Thank you for your help!
Local law firm. Advised as to sources (fee, free and transer agents) for this information.
Date: Sat, 3 Apr 1999 21:00:33 -0500 (EST)
query: When was the last game played by the Portland Timbers? Against whom and the score.
Montana patron. Research indicates two teams of this name. Gave patron date and opponent, last game, second team; asked which of two Timbers was wanted?
Date: Sat, 3 Apr 1999 16:42:45 -0500 (EST)
query: Do you have Psychology Abstracts available online for me to download. I need a case study on any topic in "Cognitive Processes" to do for school. Perhaps you can help? I am having no other luck searching the web for case studies
Local patron. Advised as to use of ERIC on the web and locaton of PsychLit at county college.
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 14:49:49 -0500 (EST)
query: What happened to Dimond Shamrock's Specialty Chemicals Division. I worked there (in Morristown) until 19XX. Did they move, merge, leave the area or what? I need to contact them about my pension.
Local plant now closed. Located company headquarters, after name change, in Texas; gave patron contact information.
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:08:06 -0500 (EST)
query: How do I find imformation about "property deeds" in Rockaway N.J.
Patron (not local, but town is) asked if needed current or historic? Advised as to real estate record holdings in library, sales records (partial) on web. [Took patron three mailings to get form filled out correctly.]
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 22:01:32 -0500 (EST)
query: where can i find books on north carolina/connecticut travel books
School assignment. Advised as to travel books and also use of state web pages, as www.state.nc.us
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 23:27:46 -0500 (EST)
query: This Friday is Good Friday. Will the library be open then? Will the Thursday hours be as usual (9-9)?
11PM, library not open. Advised would be closed Good Friday and Easter Sunday.
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 11:31:00 -0500 (EST)
query: I would like permission to reprint this page in my forthcoming book on electronic reference services to be published by Neal Schuman.
Referred to Director for permission.
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 16:46:19 -0500 (EST)
query: need information concerning the disappearance of X X Jones sons disappearance. In Butler, MOoris Co. NJ.Time about 1923. MY aunt is searching for her cousin. Apparently X ran away with YÕs husbamd Fred Jones, and took
Y's child. Y had nevous breakdown and was sent to graystone, she never recovered. any help from newspaper archives would be a greatly appreciated.
Name of local psychiatric facility is accurate, but family name(s) not found in 1920 census, NYTimes name index or SSDI. Local papers not indexed for the period. Patron referred to municipal library.Family stories must always be handled with great tact.
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 13:52:51 -0500 (EST)
query: I just need to know how far back your copies of the "Scientific American" go.
Gave holdings.
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 22:13:53 -0500 (EST)
: Is it possible for me to get a library card in order to access your database for magazines? I'm 4X, returned to college and would like to access your magazines. If there is a charge, please let me know and I will be happy for send funds immediate
ly.
Patron lives in Florida. Referred to nearest library there offering online access to periodicals database. Forwarded query to head of circulation, as to possibility of out-of-state purchase of library card.
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 14:52:18 -0500 (EST)
query: Looking for information on Business Ettiquette in England.
Provided several book titles; in reply patron indicates is local, will come in to library to use materials.
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 08:46:23 -0500 (EST)
query: I need a company profile for Cardinal International, Inc. in Wayne, NJ - a glassware. I believe it is a private company. How much information is available? I have an interview set up with them 3/18 and would like to know as much as possible. I c
an come to MCL today if there is sufficient data available.
Information faxxed to patron.
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 15:08:22 -0500 (EST)
query: I need information on Lewis Terman, please.
Bio note and article from web sent and print sources explained. Patron came in to library to use additional materials, advised staff that info about electronic reference page is being passed around her class at college.
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 08:39:22 -0500 (EST)
query: Please tell me where I can obtain the following (4) articles through interlibrary loan:(1) Clemson L., and R.M Cumming "Types of hazards in the homes of elderly people" Occupational Therapy Journal of Research, 17(3) 200-213. 1997 summer (2) Tricke
y F, Maltais D Gosselin C and Robitaille Y "Adapting older persons homes to promote independence. Phsical and Occupational Therapy in Geriatrics 12(1): 1-14, 1993 (3) Parker MG, Thorslund M "The use of technical aids among community based elderly. Amer J
Occupational Therapy 45(8) 712-718 1991 Aug (4) Sjorgen H, Bjornstig U "Injuries among the elderly in the home environment: detailed analysis of mechanisms and consequences. J of Aging and Health 1991 3(1) 107-125
Repeat e-patron. Gave locations of journals.
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 11:21:37 -0500 (EST)
query: I need information on levers for science report! Can you help?
Sent URLs for two web sites on levers.
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 15:49:25 -0500 (EST)
query: Do you have any literature or listings of senior citizen activities such as day trips, dances,e tc. for seniors inthe Morris County area?
Explained delivery of senior services/clubs at town level within the county; pointed to same senior services web site; gave also contact info for county Office on Aging. Patron, in thank you, explains that while s/he is out of service area, is looking for activities for his/her mother, who lives in area. As follow-up, three days later, advise patron that county paper has published a full page of 60+ activities, clubs and trips.
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 16:07:39 -0500 (EST)
query: Could your library acquire this new book?
Winning the mental way by karlene sugarman
2/99
step up publishing: CA
No sender's e-mail address. Seems to be publisher's marketing?
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 20:32:15 -0500 (EST)
query: I tried to log on to the magazines online with the use of my
library card number and it wouldn't work. It didn't work for
my husband's card number either. We were both issued cards
through the X Library on X Road if this is of
any help. Any suggestions?
Patron told to be sure card is current. Most often cause of this failure is 1) not entering all 13 digits in barcode and/or 2) using keypad instead of text numerals.
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 22:19:00 -0400 (EDT)
query: Hi could you send a book from the county library to the X library? If you can and will the book I need is Below the Root by Zilpha Keatly Snyder. Thank you.
Local patron; advised book can be sent or can be charged out here with hometown card.
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 15:12:19 -0400 (EDT)
query: To Whom It May Concern:
I have recently sold a series of romance novels that deal with living with various disabilities. Book one of this series concerns visual impairment. I am indcluding a resource appendix and would like to request the National Library's permission to use t
heir address or a contact number as part of this list.
Should this not be the correct contact area, please, could you be so kind as to direct me to the person I would need to talk to.
I look forward to hearing from you and thank you for the consideration of this request.
Referred to Natl Library for the Blind.
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 16:07:07 -0400 (EDT)
query: To increase awareness for your web site, New Jersey Online would like to invite you to list your site for free in our
Community connection statewide directory. Participation is
quick, free and easy: go to www.nj.com/cc and follow the
directions for "list your site"
If you have any questions, please let me know.
Thanks,X X, NJO marketing
Investigated but as e-mail is not from the NJO domain and registration involves creating an external linking web site, declined to list site.
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 15:56:39 -0400 (EDT)
query: Is there any significance to the date September 9,1999 or 9/9/99? My organization is planning a ceremony on that day and our VP wants to know if there is any historical, cultural, or religious significance to 9 or multiple 9s. I have searched the
web but have found nothing significant besides references to a possible Y2K problem on that date. I'd appreciate anything you could find on this topic. Thanks.
From link in our Children's page, History Today, provided list of events on Sept 9th and suggested using backfiles of local papers and New York Times to spot check date. Faxxed entry on "nine" from Dictionary of Mythology and Folklore.
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 21:14:09 -0500 (EST)
query: Do you have The Elementary School Journal, vol 99, No. 4, March, 1999
Advised of holdings.
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 13:05:39 -0500 (EST)
query: Do you carry the following books:
Keeping Score by Mark Graham Brown
Measuring Organizational Improvement Impact:A pratical guide to successfully linking organizational improvement measure
by Richard Y. Chang/Paul H DeYoung
Harvard Business Review on Measuring Corproate Performance by the Harvard Business Review
Gave locations, interlibrary loan procedure and pointer to hbsp.harvard.edu.
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