Wilson Reference

Dorothy Parker short story "The Road Home"

We have several people with an assignment to find three critical articles on Dorothy Parker's short story "The Road Home>' Both Kyle and I have worked on this for some time, and found very little. See extended entry.

Dorothy Parker's "The Road Home" first appeared in THE NEW YORKER for 16 September 1933.

As far as I can tell from SHORT STORY INDEX (all volumes), WorldCat, and Randall Calhoun's
DOROTHY PARKER: A BIO-BIBLIOGRAPHY, Parker did not reprint it in any short story collection
published during her life time (nor did I find any anthologizations from other hands). It
appears to have first been reprinted in the 1995 volume of her posthumous COMPLETE STORIES.

Given its almost total invisibility for most of the last seventy-five years, I wouldn't
have expected many critics to have paid much attention to it, and in fact I can find almost
nothing.

Nothing found in the MLA BIBLIOGRAPHY, 1926 to date. Nothing in LITERAUTRE INTERNATIONAL
(LION) which combines the MLA with ANNUAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE.
Nothing found in ARTS AND HUMANITIES CITATION INDEX, as either subject or cited reference.

The print compilations CONTEMPORARY LITERARY CRITICISM and TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERARY
CRITICISM show only one hit in their respective title indexes: this is to this chapter,
reprinted in TCLC 143:

"The Sentimental Connection II: Dorothy Parker's Fiction and the Sentimental Tradition."
It's an article in this book:

Author Pettit, Rhonda S., 1955-
Title A gendered collision : sentimentalism and modernism in Dorothy Parker’s poetry and fiction / Rhonda S. Pettit.
Published Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London : Associated University Presses, c2000.
Description 248 p. ; 24 cm.

Availability TC Wilson Library PS3531.A5855 Z83 2000 Regular Loan

but when examined, the reference to "A Road Home" is just a passing mention in a list of some
twenty or more Parker stories, and the only comment made about the story is that it is set
"in the back of a cab." I checked the book in the stacks; there are very brief mentions of
the story on pages 128 and 167, as well as on page 126 (the source of the TCLC reprint).

A google-in-books search indicated a mention in Arthur F. Kinney's DOROTHY PARKER volume
for Twayne Publishers. In his 1998 revised version, it appears on page 115 and does contain
a sentence or two about the story.

JSTOR turns up one article, which does in fact talk a bit about the story:

Teaching Behavior and Personality through Composition
Mitchell E. Rappaport
The English Journal, Vol. 23, No. 5 (May, 1934), pp. 377-382

I could not find anything relevant in GOOGLE SCHOLAR or in PROJECT MUSE. Nor could I find anything
in full-text searches of the historic NEW YORK TIMES, CHICAGO TRIBUNE, or TIMES OF LONDON newspapers.
Nothing in DIGITAL DISSERTATIONS either.

There may be some mention in introduction or story notes in its appearance in Parker's
COMPLETE STORIES -- our copy was off the shelf when I checked for it.

So: after checking everything I can think of, total score are a few brief mentions in
the Rappaport article, the Pettit book, and the Kinney book, and that appears to be all.

Dennis Lien

Sources of Newspaper Circulation Statistics

All,

Together with Tom Leek, Arts and Humanities student assistant, I have created a page with newspaper statistics resources. It is linked from the sidebar of the journalism site. Please see http://www.lib.umn.edu/journalism/circulation.phtml

Let me know if you have any questions or suggestions.

Thank you.
Johan

VHA updated guide

The updated guide to VHA is at http://www.lib.umn.edu/vha/vha-handoutvisual2008.pdf

Staff stats for MCTC assignment

Students from MCTC library technician class are back this year needing stats on various libraries. The link Kay gave us for this last year is
http://wiki.lib.umn.edu/wupl/Staff.LibrariesStatistics/05statulibtc1.xls

ONe thing I noticed is that the spreadsheet is wider thatn the screen and it may open in a way that you have to scroll to the LEFT as well as the right to spot the staff stats on the sheet.

Kinesiology assignment impact factor for journals

We had a bewildered international student in yesterday trying to understand how to find impact factors for journals. She had a printout from what turned out to be a section of the Web of Science, but he had blocked out the impact factors column. In order to get to what she had from him, you have to reset the ISI menu at the top from Web of Science to Journal Citation reports, and set up and submit a search. I notice also that once you do that, you apparently need to logout before you can change the category. I didn't get as far as finding in which category kinesiology falls but it may be that they can set up the search by journal title instead.

I started with the Journal Citation Reports and the students have to use both the earlier years of JCR which are in fiche format, and the recent years which are in ISI. I helped as long as I could and then needed to leave.

I sent a note to Scott saying he might want to check with Michael Wade about the assignment for the summer session of KIN 5981 Research Methodology in Kinesiology, Recreation, and Sport .

JOUR4263 assignment about marketing butter/margarine

Johann sent this message to the WilsRef mailbox:

From: Johan Oberg
Subject: Butter assignment - Journalism class - Gordon Leighton

All,

I wanted to give you a heads up that students from a journalism class will be asking for help from reference staff regarding an assignment on butter. Because this is an evening class, they may come in during evenings or weekends.

Course: JOUR4263: Strategic Communications Campaigns
Instructor: Gordon Leighton.
Assignment due: June 29th.

I've created a page with some instructions that hopefully will help them get started; however, they may not know about the page: http://courses.lib.umn.edu/page.phtml?page_id=2143.

I hope this helps. Please let me know if you have any questions and please feel free to refer them to me.

(I've pasted the assignment/project description in the extended entry below -- Denny)

CourseLib page for this assignment is at

http://courses.lib.umn.edu/page.phtml?page_id=2143

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Course: JOUR4263
Instructor: Gordon Leighton
Due: 6/29

Part 1, Project #3 -- Secondary Research

1. According to the Statistical Abstract of the United States, the Bureau of Labor Consumer Expenditure Survey, MRI and other industry-related articles you have researched, perhaps from Business Source or Lexis/Nexis:
a. What are the trends in the usage of butter and margarine in the U.S.?
b. What region consumes the most of the product category that includes butter and margarine?
c. What age differences exist among consumers of these products?
d. What do you think the demographic profile of the target audience for butter should be and why?
e. Which marketing region would you most want to target with a margarine brand? Why? What states does the region include and how do the demographics compare to the region that consumes the most butter?

2. Outline three factors influencing changes in consumption of margarine (cite source).

3. Using the 2004 SRDS Lifestyle Market Analyst, and assuming the ideal target is female, single and 18-34 years old:
a. What 10 lifestyle activities do they participate in far more than the general population?
b. What is their median household income?
c. What other distinguishing activities or trends can you identify?

4. Using MRI/Mediamark (2002) figures about women:
a. Which age group purchased the most butter in the past 12 months?
b. What percentage of this age group purchased margarine?
c. What would you recommend as the demographic profile for your “butter target� if you used this source of information?
d. What would be your top three magazine recommendations for butter ads? Why?

5. If you were to assume that the ideal target is married and 18-34 years old, what five DMAs would you be most interested in and why?

6. Your agency just landed a dairy products account, including its butter brand, and you want to get up to speed on the category. Using the Encyclopedia of Business Information Sources, perhaps the Encyclopedia of Associations (print version), Associations Unlimited (online version) or SRDS:
a. What trade associations might particularly interest you to contact for information on the industry?
b. What industry magazines or newsletters might you consider using to advertise?

7. Using the Encyclopedia of Consumer Brands discuss how advertising contributed to the marketing and branding effort of one of the following brands: Parkay, Fleischmann’s, and Land O’Lakes. What other brands are readily available in the market? What do you know about them from other sources -- for example, what is their market share?

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Finding contemporary 19th century book reviews assignment

There's an assignment we're getting where students have to find book reviews of 19th century classics, contemporary to publication of the book.

Gwen's book review guides are Locating Book Reviews in Wilson Library and Specialized Sources for Book Reviews in Wilson Library Check under the section titled "EARLY REVIEWS."

For 19th century books (I've gotten PORTRAIT OF A LADY and TOM SAWYER so far), the 19TH CENTURY MASTERFILE and PERIODICAL INDEX ONLINE (the former PCI) are probably the easiest online sources (PIO even lets you limit just to book reviews).

A couple of other online possibilites not on the list are the searchable Making of America files based at Michigan and Cornell: Making of America - Journals and
Making of America - Simple Search
These are keyword-searchable indexes to full-text files of many 19th century magazines - the same sort of thing as JSTOR.

In print, the NINETEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE CRITICISM* is another possibility; criticism of all sorts, including book reviews, are arranged in chronological order so anything relevant would be "near the top."
* yes that's the title!
LITERARY WRITINGS IN AMERICA, on Gwen's list, is a very good and underutilized source for major and semi-major American (only) authors; book reviews and other articles about authors follow section of works by given author, and given the ugly typeface it's easy to get lost.

And for major authors at the James/Twain level, there will often be bibliographies of secondary sources (including reviews) and/or casebooks/critical editions of specific works (which may also do so).

Denny

LINKS and CALL NUMBERS

Locating Book Reviews in Wilson Library
http://www.lib.umn.edu/libdata/page.phtml?page_id=976

Specialized Sources for Book Reviews in Wilson Library
http://www.lib.umn.edu/libdata/page.phtml?page_id=1038

19TH CENTURY MASTERFILE
http://www.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/poole.cgi

PERIODICAL INDEX ONLINE (the former PCI)
http://www.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/pci.cgi

Making of America - Journals
http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/moajrnl/

Making of America - Simple Search
http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/moa_search.html

NINETEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE CRITICISM
TC Wilson Library Reference Quarto PN761 .N5 Non-Circulating

LITERARY WRITINGS IN AMERICA
TC Wilson Library Reference Quarto PS88 .L54x 1977 Non-Circulating

MPLIC Homework Help link

For the high school students who need homework help:
Minneapolis Public Homework Helper

Art Slides - Heller - 4th Floor Visual Resources Center

There is a syllabus with incorrect information, saying that the art slides given in my title are on the fourth floor of Wilson Library. If you see the syllabus, please get contact information for the instructor, as someone needs to contact him/her. -- CH

Note: you might want to suggest the Art History Dept's Visual Resources Center in
Visual Resources Center (VRC)
Heller Hall 460 (West Bank)
(624-2064)
Email: Rebecca Moss
--SG

Latin American History Assignemnt - Primary Sources

I notified Rafael about a new assignment--not heretofore mentioned in our IRIS blog--for a Latin American history paper that is to be based primarily on letters in translation from the 14th to the 19th century.

I actually did something very easy because the student was almost totally open on a topic; she did want Brazil. I entered "brazil and correspondence" and found hits, some in the James Ford Bell Library.

She then was willing to browse in the Latin American history section of the reference collection to work with a printout of what primary sources I had found and what might serve as a topic.

She and I concluded that, for this assignment, the single primary source is the most important aspect, though later on she will need 10 to 15 secondary sources.

The professor seems to want letters in translation as the primary source.

He is David "Jack" Norton, and he is either a teaching assistant or an assistant professor (she isn't sure). There are about 20 students in the class. The final paper is not due for a month.

Print Psych Abstracts assignment

As many of you probably know by experience there is a group of Century College psychology students coming here to do an assignment using the PRINT Psychological Abstracts which we have up to year 2000 in the BF1 Quartos.
....................................
Their task is to go to the print PA, find a reference to an article, and then find the corresponding journal article. They need to photocopy all to document what they have done. They are supposed to use print articles.

Most need lots of help completing the steps of this this task.
Laurel

PS Try the online guide to the print index located at:
http://www.potsdam.edu/library/Guides/Referencetools/PsychAbs.html
and also the more narrative guide at:
http://library.kumc.edu/tipsheets/print/psychabs.htm
--sg

GC writing assignment

An assignment is afoot to compare an "old" and new issue of a general or specific magazine. This page might help students who can't think of any titles, but general things like Time and Newsweek will work, too, of course:

http://www.lib.umn.edu/help/orientation/Pages/womensmags.html#point2

Sports Research

Students may be asking you for help on the history of sports, especially students in KIN 3131* (see "Continue reading...", below) for types of sources needed for assignment). Show them the CourseLib page for KIN3131 . Other CourseLib pages on sports can be checked under either KIN (Kinesiology) or REC (Recreation Studies).

If they need to research sports for other reasons, show them the Research QuickStart page for Physical Education, Kinesiology and Recreation.

If they need further assistance, refer them to me. My e-mail address is included at the top of the CourseLib page for Kin 3131.
--Susan

Paper #1 and #2 references: You must use at least seven of the following ten types of sources:
1) the Internet [no more than 2 sites]
2) a scholarly journal article, masters thesis or doctoral dissertation [your use of the journal articles we read in class do not count]
3) a sport specific history book
4) proceedings from an academic or athletic symposium
5) newspaper
6) a biography
7) video
8) interview or correspondence with a witness or an expert on the subject
9) [popular magazine or trade journals]
10) a general sport history text book.

Book Reviews in languages other than English

CourseLib page for Prof. Bachrach's class: http://courses.lib.umn.edu/page.phtml?page_id=1350
LD

Hello Everyone,

It's that time of year when desperate young medievalists come to us looking for book reviews -- in English for books published in foreign languages and in foreign languages for books published in English. (What a tangled web some of us weave.)

I made a CourseLib page for this class: http://courses.lib.umn.edu/page.phtml?page_id=1350 . I sent this link to Prof. Bachrach. in August, but have received no response.

In past years some of the book reviews could be found in indexes. Other reviews were found through browsing scholarly journals, the old-fashioned way. You can always refer these students to me, but please show them the CourseLib page first. It includes links to the fabulous "Book Reviews in Languages Other Than English" (authored by Susan Gangl) and "Locating Book Reviews in Wilson Library" PageScribe pages.

Best regards,

LD

Margaret Johansen "Office Party" reference question

See Gordon's response including several links, in case the student comes to the desk instead of contacting either Gordon or Marcia

Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 10:59:55 -0500
To: Susan G
m-pank
From: Gordon
Subject: Re: Fwd: Margaret Johansen

Well, FYI,

I have run the gamut of sources listed on my course-lib page for SCAN 3605, and I can hardly do better than you did, Susan. I This class has been a challenge -- the students are looking for important writers, but there truly exists precious little about them. A couple of weeks ago I worked with a student looking for materials on an Icelandic woman writer, Svava Jakobsdottir.

The only other tactic I can suggest -- and I presume you did that -- is to look at broader works, for example, on the type of writer, the genre, or if lucky a biography or treatise on the particular author, and develop interpretations about the author's work in question. Below are the few additional items that I could come up with.

--Gordon

At 09:36 AM 4/28/2004 -0500, Susan Gangl wrote:
A student was in last night looking for any criticism on the Norwegian author Margaret Johansen's short story, "Office Party" (translated from "Firmafest") and published in the book cited below, which we own and she has.

We tried Short Story Criticism, MLA, AHCI, the new HSS Index Retrospective, Essay and General Literature Index and even Google. I didn't think of Book Review Index. She was in a bit of a hurry but planned to return and I gave her your business cards, which coincidentally were the last card left at the desk for each of you!

fyi.
Susan
Susan Gangl mailto:s-gang@umn.edu
Wilson IRIS Information, Reference and Instruction Services
180 Wilson Library, University of Minnesota 55455
(612) 626-2281 FAX: (612) 626-9353

Also found:

Author Garton, Janet. Norwegian women's writing, 1850-1990. Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Athlone Press, 1993. (Women in context (London, England)) PT8415 .G37 1993 ISBN 0485910012; 0485920018 (pbk.) System No. 003057533

Norsk kvinnelitteraturhistorie /
Oslo : Pax, 1988-1990.
3 v. : ill. ; 25 cm. Location: TC Wilson Library PT8415 .N67x 1988

Contemporary Norwegian women's writing : an anthology / edited by Janet Garton. Norwich : Norvik ; Shester Springs, PA : U.S. distributor, Dufour Editions, 1995. (Series B (Norvik Press) ; no. 19). Wilson Library PT8661 .C65 1995

Om kvinner. Noveller. Johansen, Margaret. book 1971 TC Wilson Library 839.8J599 OO Regular Loan

Det var engang en sommer : roman / Johansen, Margaret. book 1974 TC Wilson Library 839.8J599 OV Regular Loan

[from A&HCI]

BOLCKMANS A SHORT PROSE IN SCANDINAVIA - FROM THE TALES OF ANDERSEN,H.C. TO THE MODERN SHORT-STORY - DANISH, SWEDISH, NORWEGIAN, GERMAN, ENGLISH AND FRENCH - BRONDSTED,M SCANDINAVICA 24 (1): 104-105 1985

LANGEMO A SHORT-STORY ASSORTMENT - NORWEGIAN - STIGEN,T WORLD LITERATURE TOD 57 (3): 477-477 1983

WAAL C NORWEGIAN SHORT-STORY - VIK,BJORG SCAND STUD 49 (2): 217-240 1977

Guatemala assignment

The Geog 4121 class needs information about Guatemala, including migration, geography, urbanisation, etc. It is due Wednesday so this will be short-lived!

see some possible starting points below;feel free to add info either using the Edit mode or by adding "comments".
Thanks! SG

Woodward, Ralph Lee.: Guatemala /
(World Bibliographical Series; not online)
Oxford, England ; Santa Barbara, Calif. : Clio Press, c1992.
Wilson Library Reference F1463 .W6x 1992

Research QuickStart: Countries of the World

Government Publications Library Web page esp. on Statistics

and re the migration topic, just a reminder (I forgot it at first) - use the subject keywords "emigration and immigration" to get more results, both in MNCAT and also in Lexis Nexis Statistical.

PS course is most likely:

GEOG 4121W Latin America
Course Guide | Bookstore | Section Status
(Credit will not be granted if credit has been received for: LAS 4121W; meets CLE req of Environment Theme; meets CLE req of International Perspect Theme; meets CLE req of Writing Intensive)


62155 -001 LEC , 12:20 P.M. - 01:35 P.M. , M,W (01/20/2004 - 05/07/2004) , BlegH 425 , TCWESTBANK , Weil,Connie H , 3 credits
4 of 60 seats open

SG

Prego Language CD in 148 Folwell

Laura Dale B. reports: The Prego Language CD is in 148 Folwell, NOT in 128
Folwell. Instructor has told his students to come to Wilson.

(this entry typed in by Denny Lien per request of LDB; ask her if any questions)

"Creating Failure" article

Had student whose instructor had emailed (as attachment) text of an article each in class was to read. She couldn't get it to open--don't know if problem was with her machine (e.g. no Acrobat perhaps?) or if instructor's text wasn't
attached properly or what...

We did find the article is a chapter "Creating Failure" in a book, GIVING UP ON
SCHOOL, by Margaret LeCompte and Anthony Dworkin (1991). We do not own
the book, but (a) Augsburg does (and if I recall Hamline), and (b) it is also
available as an ERIC document (but on microfiche only, not eSubscribe).

If the problem isn't just with her own machine/settings, we may see more from
the class; it looked like there were about 12 to 15 people who'd been sent the
attachment.

Denny Lien

Prego! language CD

A professor of Italian has assigned a class to a CD that they were told is in the libraries. However, the CD, entitled Prego! is located at the computer lab in 128 Folwell Hall, on East Bank.
--entered by SG for LDB

St Paul Academy topics HS visit next week

see below. -- SG

From: "Tabar, Marghe"
To: Susan Gangl
Subject: Visit to Wilson by St. Paul Academy students
Date: 6Apr04 5:21pm
Hi, Susan,
Below is a sampling of the topics to be researched by the St. Paul
Academy students who will be visiting Wilson Library next week.
This year, I've had 2 class periods with the students to prepare them for the
visit, so they should make better use of the resources Wilson has to offer.
Let me know of questions or concerns

African American soldiers - WW II
American existentialism
American Transcendentalism
Ben Franklin and France
Brandeis
Civil War - 1st Minnesota Regiment
DorotheaDix
FDR,
First telegraph
Flapper Fashion
Floyd Olson, Minnesota Progressive Governor
Food Drug
Ford and mass productio
Free Masons
George Washington as myth
Health care 1900-1920's
Henry Ford
Huey Long
Jazz- crossing racial boundaries
Jeannette Rankin
John Collier
Kennan
Lindbergh
Literature of 1830's, 40's
Manhattan Project
Matthew Lyon's Sect act of 1798
Navy / Air Force Cooperation in WW II
New Deal & Hitler relief program
Panama Canal
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Rosenberg
St. Paul Breweries
Taft/ Hartley Act
Taxation in Colonial days (Virtual / actual rep as perceived by colonies)
Tenement design, architecture, etc.
Trail of Tears
Visual Art of Harlem Renaisance
Wizard of Oz
Women Air Force WW II
World War II -

JOUR - SRDS Lifestyle..

Journalism assignment that sends students to use: SRDS Lifestyle Market Analysis is actually referring to Lifestyle Market Analyst pub. by Standard Rate and Data Service. See below for Call no. info. -- SG

The Lifestyle market analyst.

Wilmette, IL : Standard Rate & Data Service, c1989-

v. : ill. ; 28 cm.

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Latest two editions in WILSON Business Reference.

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JOUR - Bacon's Media Directories?

Does anyone dealing with the big Journalism groups know what title(s) the students are supposed to use when they're asked to use the Bacon's Media Directories?
The Web site below lists many different titles published by Bacon's. Which ones are the students supposed to use? --sg
https://www.bacons.com/orders/ordmailmeddir1.asp?Year=2003

Bacon's Media Directories - Step 1 of 4

2003 Editions

Directory Price

Newspaper/Magazine Directory (2 volumes) $350.00 No Longer Available

Radio/TV/Cable Directory (2 volumes) $350.00 No Longer Available

Media Calendar Directory (Editorial calendars & profiles) $350.00 No Longer Available

Internet Media Directory (News content web sites) $300.00 No Longer Available

Directory Combination Set - Save $150:
(6 printed directories above)
Directories shipped as available - See above dates $1,200.00 No Longer Available

MediaCalendars.com Combination Set - Save $220:
(News/Mag, Radio/TV & Internet directories plus MediaCalendars.com)
Directories shipped as available - See dates above
MC.com requires two business days to process $1,375.00 No Longer Available

Computer & Hi-Tech Media Directory (Print & broadcast media) $300.00 No Longer Available

Medical & Health Media Directory (Print & broadcast media) $300.00 No Longer Available

Business Media Directory (Financial & business media & contacts) $350.00 No Longer Available

New York Publicity Outlets Directory $250.00 No Longer Available

Metro California Media Directory $250.00 No Longer Available

International Media Directory (Western European Media) $350.00 No Longer Available