Monday, March 19, 2007

Actual Reference Work :)

In my position I am technically a reference librarian with other tasks thrown in but it seems like I do a whole lot of the other stuff than referencing. Until today, this morning one of our more esteemed professors (IMO) shot me an email wanting all statutes passed in the last 2 and half years in our state on a certain subject (think an entire volume worth of subject in our 25 volume code). So, after a slight email war of back and forth over exactly what he was wanting I got it down to around 30 bills and sorted through about 125 bills making sure I didn't miss anything. It's not that my research method sucks its just that I am trying to be thorough since this guy has lots of pull around town if I want to escape to greener pastures. I have just sent off the attached page with the bills and their titles and await some sort of response indicating I missed something. In my defense it's not greatest system to search by but I applied all the keywords I could come up with, cross searched using different restrictors, and even went to the paper to back up my findings, I should be o.k.

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