Hi-ho, A Delgado here, reporting to you LIVE from a Thursday night reference desk shift. Things are hoppin' here at the A-C-C. Hoppin'! Smokin'! Jivin'! I've a slew of questions tonight that I'm gonna try to rattle off real quick like.
1) Books on dance & fashion
2) Twilight books (we had Twilight the graphic novel, volume 2 {but not volume 1}, Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn)
3) Books by Zane
4) Books by Eric Jerome Dickey
5-12) Textbooks
13) Books on stock option strategies
14) Field guides for birds, mammals, and other "nature" stuff
15) Intermediate college algebra supplementary textbooks for individual study
16) Textbooks
17) AskAcademic: How do I find this article from a citation? It's supposed to be on this website.
I've felt pleasantly busy. Yay! No "I need primary sources on ____" or "My teacher says I need 5 journal articles on _____" but those will come later on the semester. To round out my time at the desk I'm working on a reference question I had earlier today. The student and I worked together to figure out a topic for a History of Mexico research paper. We narrowed it down to the Inquisition in Mexico. So far, I've discovered that scholars like to say "New Spain." Ooooo, fancypants. I'm struggling with finding text primary sources that are translated into English. I was hoping that I would be able to find some super awesome digital library that translates old school Spanish into English. I've found some truly awesome archival stuff, ex. University of Notre Dame's Inquisitio *drool*. But nothing in English. *whine* I'm gonna have to tell Mexican Inquisition Student to dig out a book. *whine* Ah well, Central TX IS the home of the Benson Latin American Collection, which is pretty durn smurfy.
Meanwhile, back at the library ranch, I'm whiny like a wee thing, not because I can't find primary source documents on the Inquisition in New Spain translated into English, but because I won't be able to join my friends in Seattle at the Big Bad Midwinter Librarian Conference. Sourcebooks is giving away (GIVING AWAY, y'all, LIKE FREE!!!!) t-shirts with their new mascot which is JANE FREAKING AUSTEN. JANE! AUSTEN!
The old mascot was Edgar Allen "The Raven" Poe, as seen on their website here.
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