Regrunt

From last thursday night on the desk:

1. I need to find original copies of a book by Huldrych Zwingli. It was written in in 1523. (Fortunately, WorldCat didn't fail me and we managed to find about a half a dozen copies that I am pretty sure are originials.) Plus, she wanted an English translation of this theological, German text.
2. I need to write a paper about introduced species, you know, like non-native species. Specifically, I want to write about iguanas.
3. I need information about poaching in Africa.
4. I want recent history and politics in North Korea. (This one actually turned into a half an hour crash course on how to do research in the library.)

Also, this weekend in my reference class, I was talking to a classmate about how I found the answer to a question about when Cambodia's currency was reinstated. I used an online encyclopedia we have at my University library called Funk and Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia. And my classmate noticed that I made a crucial (and mortifying) typo in the first word of the resource's title. Fortunately, our instructor still had our papers here and I was able to scribble out the offending consonant and spell the word correctly. Tcha.

Goes to show that even proofreading a paper three times may not be enough. I should have handed the paper off to someone else to read. They would have spotted the error. :)