{"id":275,"date":"2014-01-31T17:41:51","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T17:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/?p=275"},"modified":"2017-05-02T10:06:27","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T16:06:27","slug":"latin-american-soap-operas-and-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/2014\/01\/31\/latin-american-soap-operas-and-bitcoin\/","title":{"rendered":"Latin American Soap Operas and Bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to <a href=\"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/category\/this-week-in-reference\/\">This Week in Reference<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>This week we\u2019ve had students ask for our help researching the history of different games, a familiar assignment for many of us. So far, we\u2019ve delved into the past of Rummy, Sorry, Dominoes, and Craps (among others), and there will be many more before the quarter is done! \u00a0Since the students need to research the game as well as find primary source material, librarians often recommend searching a combination of the following sources: Credo Reference, JSTOR, newspapers, books at DePaul (including the Oxford History of Board Games, Ancient Board Games in Perspective, The Games We Played : The Golden Age of Board &amp; Table Games, Dice: Deception, Fate, and Rotten Luck), books ordered through I-Share, and books available online through HathiTrust.<\/p>\n<p>Other topics to cross the Reference Desks have included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Perceptions of death and dying<\/li>\n<li>Francis Cecil Sumner<\/li>\n<li>Racism in Cuba<\/li>\n<li>Depiction of Religion in Latin American Soap Operas<\/li>\n<li>State of the Union Address<\/li>\n<li>Title IX<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And, some interesting online conversations from IM:<\/p>\n<p>A student asked for assistance with a speech about the misconceptions of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. The librarian suggested starting with our Psychology Research Guide, and looking for articles in the database: PsycINFO. Or, if the student needed less clinical information, a search for articles in Academic Search Complete might be more than sufficient. Suggested keywords included bipolar (or schizophrenia) AND myths OR misconceptions OR misunderstood OR stigma.<\/p>\n<p>A researcher was coming up empty looking for film reviews of the first Godfather movie. The librarian sent her to the Film Studies Research Guide and suggested starting with the database: Film &amp; Television Literature Index, since it begins coverage in 1971. \u00a0She suggested searching for \u201cThe Godfather\u201d and review*.\u00a0That particular search also pulled up a bunch of reviews of television shows, so they focused their search with the exact heading for the movie: &#8220;GODFATHER, The (Film)&#8221;, and were very successful.<\/p>\n<p>A student was researching Bitcoin, its background, pros and cons. The librarian clarified if the student was interested in Bitcoin\u2019s affiliation with the drug trade and money laundering, as that also seemed to be a useful search strategy. \u00a0They started with a search in both Academic Search Complete and Business Source Complete together for \u201cbitcoin\u201d and several keywords describing pros and cons, like: advantage or disadvantage or benefit or drawback or problem or challenge, etc. They were then able to sort the list of results to the most recent first, and used the facets to limit to only \u2018scholarly\u2019 articles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to This Week in Reference! This week we\u2019ve had students ask for our help researching the history of different games, a familiar assignment for many of us. 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