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Terry Wasserman 29 March 2009 ILS 504/Spr 09 Prof. Okobi Ready-Reference Assignment

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Date Due: 03/29/09

Answering following questions by means of print sources, if you do not have access to the print source give the title of the source that you would have consulted. Review question answering methodology and make sure you document the steps you took to find the answer to the question. I am looking for the process and not just the answer You are required to: (1) State the question (2) Analyze the questionsay what type of reference tool you will need (Almanac or Dictionary etc.), (3)Your search strategy (4),The answer and the(5) full citation of your source for each of your answers. Each question is worth 5 points. 1. Who were the first and second Presidents of France's 5th Republic? Because the question asks for fairly prominent people, I thought the best place to start the search would be an encyclopedia. I searched the Columbia Encyclopedia and found that Charles de Gaulle and Georges Pompidou were the first two presidents of France’s 5th Republic. France. 2000. In Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. (pg. 1031). New York: Columbia University Press. 2. I need some information on postal rates for printed matter. However, I've heard that the rate depends on what zone the material is going to. What is a zone? What is the difference between Zone 1 and Zone 2? The questions ask for postal rate information, so my first step was to find a post office reference book—I found a book on zip codes. A zone is a rate calculated by distance and weight. Zone 1 is non local within a fifty mile radius. Zone 2 is a distance within a fifty to one hundred mile radius. 2008 National Five Digit Zip Code and Post Office Directory. (vol. 1, pg. 1-1). Baton Rouge: Claitor’s Publication Division. 3. Where can I find a county by county presidential election returns for all the states for the 2008 election? The question asks for statistical information on the government of the United States, so I initially thought I would find an almanac of the US, but instead I found a world almanac—I checked the index and found an entry for Presidential Election Returns by Counties.

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World Almanac. (2009). (pgs. 22-43). Pleasantville, NY: Reader’s Digest Pub. 5. Where can I find some information about the peerages in England? I'd like to know how many types hereditary peerages there are. Is there a place where I could see a list of names of these peers? I immediately thought of Burke’s Peerage when I saw this question, but was initially unable to find it in my library. So, I thought if I could find a British or English encyclopedia or almanac, that it might list information about peerages. I eventually found Whitaker’s Almanac which has information on the peerage and whose in it. The hereditary types of peerage are as follows: peers of royal blood (king/queen, prince/princess), dukes/duchesses, marquesses/marchionesses, earls/countesses in their own right, viscounts/viscountesses, baron’s/lords and baronesses/ladies. Thus, there are 5 and the king himself (peers of royal blood). I went to another library and found Burke’s Peerage and Baronetage which contained similar information. Whitaker’s Almanac, 2009. (2009). (pgs 44-66). London: A&C Black Publishers. Burke’s Peerage & Baronetage. (1999). (prelim. pgs. xxxiv-xl). Chicago: Fitzroy and Dearborn. 6. My son is doing a project for school and needs to find illustrations of the flags and coats-of-arms for each of the Canadian provinces. Can you direct me to a source? The question demands that the researcher knows the Canadian provinces and because I wasn’t sure I remembered all of them, I started by looking in the World Book Encyclopedia. I found the names of all of the provinces and realized that the encyclopedia would have an article on each province. So, I looked up each province and found illustrations of the flags and coats-of-arms. Canada. (2004). World Book Encyclopedia. (vol. 3, pg. 101). Chicago: World Book Inc. Alberta. (2004). World Book Encyclopedia. (vol. 2, pg. 314). Chicago: World Book Inc. British Columbia. (2004). World Book Encyclopedia. (vol. 2, pg. 614). Chicago: World Book Inc. Manitoba. (2004). World Book Encyclopedia. (vol. 13, pg. 146). Chicago: World Book Inc.

4 Wasserman, T. Ready Reference. ILS 504/Spr 09. Okobi. New Brunswick. (2004). World Book Encyclopedia. (vol. 14, pg. 182). Chicago: World Book Inc. Newfoundland and Labrador (2004). World Book Encyclopedia. (vol. 14, pg. 362). Chicago: World Book Inc. Nova Scotia. (2004). World Book Encyclopedia. (vol. 14, pg. 556). Chicago: World Book Inc. Ontario. (2004). World Book Encyclopedia. (vol. 14, pg. 766). Chicago: World Book Inc. Prince Edward Island. (2004). World Book Encyclopedia. (vol. 15, pg. 785). Chicago: World Book Inc. Quebec. (2004). World Book Encyclopedia. (vol. 16, pg. 12). Chicago: World Book Inc. Saskatchewan. (2004). World Book Encyclopedia. (vol. 17, pg. 130). Chicago: World Book Inc. 7. I need some information for a report I'm doing for a college course. I need to know about the status of women in Germany from a historical perspective - say 1848 to post-WWII. I thought the best place to start for this question would be an encyclopedia—at first, I did not find any useful articles. In the World Book, I found an article on Germany with a section on education that discussed public education and literacy: in the 19th c. public education became de rigeur and by the 20th c. most Germans over 15 were literate (World Book, 2004). Then I went to another library and I found the Worldmark Encyclopedia of Culture and Daily Life: a much better source for this query. I looked up Germany and on the section on family life I found that the traditional role of women was defined by the 3 K’s: kirche (church), kuche (kitchen) and kinder (children) (Worldmark Encyclopedia, 1998). Germany. (2004). World Book Encyclopedia. (vol. 8, pg. 150). Chicago: World Book Inc. Germany. (1998). Worldmark Encyclopedia of Culture and Daily Life. (vol. 4, pg. 180). Cleveland: Gale. Though a good starting point, this would probably not suffice for a college paper and so I found a number of other sources that would probably be useful:

5 Wasserman, T. Ready Reference. ILS 504/Spr 09. Okobi. Cole, H. (1990). The History of Women in Germany from Medieval Times to the Present: Bibliography of English-language Publications. Washington, D.C.: German Historical Institute. Cosner, S. (1998). Women Under the 3rd Reich. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Press. Frevert, U. (1990). Women in German History. Berlin: Berg. Heineman, E. (1999). What Difference Does a Husband Make? Women and Marital Status in Nazi and Post-War Germany. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Press.

8. What are the call letters and the ad rates for the radio station in Four Bears, North Dakota? I knew I would need a directory of sorts and so I looked in reference till I found Bacon’s Radio Directory. However, I could not find Four Bears in Bacon’s Radio Directory. Therefore, I looked on a map for nearby towns and found New Town, ND. Their radio station is KMHA, 91.3 FM (601 Lodge Rd., New Town, ND 58763-9400). Bacon’s Radio Directory 2007. (2006). (pg. 1790). Chicago: Beacon’s Information Inc. 21st. 10. What event in Czechoslovakia occurred on the night of August 20-21, 1968? (Extra point - this event brought an end to the era that Alexandr Dubcek and the people of Czechoslovakia referred to as ,"xxxxxx xxxxxx”.) I thought the best place to look for a current event would be in the News Dictionary. Unfortunately, my library did not have the 1968 edition, so I looked in the 1969 version and found a reference to the “August 20-21, 1968 invasion by Soviet Forces,” (1969 News Dictionary, 1969). But there was no reference to the name of an era, so then I checked the Columbia Encyclopedia where I found that the period was called Prague Spring, a time of increased freedom. Sobel, L. (1970). 1969 News Dictionary. (pg. 105). New York: Facts on File. Czechoslovakia. 2000. In Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. (pg. 833). New York: Columbia University Press. 12. Where can I find a list of the Presidential Medal of Freedom winners from 1996-2000? Who was the AIDS researcher who won the Medal in 2000?

6 Wasserman, T. Ready Reference. ILS 504/Spr 09. Okobi. I began with a perusal of the Columbia Encyclopedia where I found a definition, but not a listing of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. I tried the Encyclopedia of American History where, again, I did not find a listing. I checked different almanacs, but to no avail. I did find B. Wettereau’s The Presidential Medal of Freedom but as it was published in 1996, it does not have the more recent recipients. If I had had access to the Public Papers of President Clinton, which is compiled and published by the Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration, I think it would have had a list of the Medal of Freedom Recipients. I was able to find a list of Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients on the website www.infoplease.com, which partners with Time Magazine, Inc. to publish the Time Almanac and so had I had access to that almanac, I think I probably would have found a list of Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients. Mathilde Krim was the AIDS researcher who won the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2000. Presidential Medal of Freedom. (2007). Infoplease. Retrieved from http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0002285.html

13. How many quarts would be contained in a rehoboam, a methusaleh, a salmanezar, a balthazar and a nebuchadnezzar? Quarts of what? Though I immediately recognized the biblical characters, I was not aware that they were also measurements, so I began by looking up rehoboam in the dictionary; my search of the American Heritage Dictionary was not fruitful. When that was unsuccessful, I tried the Oxford English Dictionary (1998), where I found the definition, “A large bottle for wine or spirits, bigger than a jeroboam and smaller than a methuselah.” Though too broad to be a terribly useful definition, it did send me in the right direction—to a wine book. I checked About Wine where I found a table that showed each measurement and the amount of liquid it contains in litres. Then, using my Kitchen Helper guide to measurements and a calculator, I was able to ascertain the following: A rehoboam is 6 standard sized bottles, 4.5L or 4.75 quarts of sparkling wine; a methusaleh is 8 standard sized bottles, 6L or 6.34 quarts of sparkling wine; a salmanazar is 12 standard sized bottles, 9L or 9.5 quarts of sparkling wine; a Balthazar is 16 standard sized bottles, 12L or 12.68 quarts of sparkling wine and a Nebuchadnezzar is 20 standard sized bottles, 15L or 15.85 quarts of sparkling wine. Henderson, J. P. & Rex, D. (2007). About Wine. (pg.454). USA: Thomson Delmar Learning.

7 Wasserman, T. Ready Reference. ILS 504/Spr 09. Okobi. Kitchen Helper. (1994). Ocala, FLA: Conimar Corp. Simpson, J. A. & Weiner, E. S. (1989). The Oxford English Dictionary. 2nd ed. (vol. xiii, pg. 530). Oxford: Clarendon Press. 15. What will be the dates of Ash Wednesday and Easter Sunday (Western Churches) in 2087? I presumed I would need a calendar for this search, so I began by looking in Chase’s Calendar, where I was unable to find dates for Ash Wednesday and Easter that far in the future. I then tried a few different almanacs until I came across the World Almanac of Books and Facts where I found that in 2087, Ash Wednesday will be March 5th and Easter Sunday will be April 20th. World Almanac of Books and Facts 2000: Millenium Edition. (1999). (pg. 697). Mahwah, NJ: Primedia Reference. 16. I need to find some recent (within the last 10 years) statistics on the Cohabitation Experience of Women in the United States approximately 2540 years of age. Where should I look? I thought I’d be able to use an almanac for this search and so I began this search with Whitaker’s Almanac as it was handy, but soon realized that I was going to need some official census data. So, I found the Statistical Abstract for the United States 2009 and checked there. I found a number of tables and useful statistics on marital statistics via age and sex (table 56, pg. 51), unmarried partner households (table 62, pg. 53), non-family households by sex and age of householder (table 70, pg. 58) and persons living alone by age and sex (table 71, pg. 58). Statistical Abstract for the United States 2009. (2009). 28th ed.( pgs. 51, 53, 58). Washington, D.C.: U.S. Census Bureau.