{"id":288,"date":"2014-03-07T17:23:29","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T17:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/?p=288"},"modified":"2017-05-02T10:03:11","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T16:03:11","slug":"sitcoms-and-potato-famine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/2014\/03\/07\/sitcoms-and-potato-famine\/","title":{"rendered":"Sitcoms and Potato Famine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/category\/this-week-in-reference\/\">Week in Reference<\/a>, research topics were diverse and interesting, and included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Irish Potato Famine<\/li>\n<li>Gender wage gap in Illinois<\/li>\n<li>David Alfaro Siqueiros<\/li>\n<li>Orem&#8217;s self care deficit<\/li>\n<li>Unionization of college athletes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And, some other conversations weve had via IM, in person, email, or over the phone:<\/p>\n<p>A student pinged into our IM service, asking for help finding educational statistics for prison inmates. The librarian shared our <a href=\"http:\/\/libguides.depaul.edu\/criminaljustice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Criminal Justice Research Guide<\/a> and then suggested the U.S. Department of Justice website, where they found just the right data.<\/p>\n<p>A student needed help finding sources on the history of sitcoms. The librarian suggested that they start by searching for articles, using several databases at once, including Communication &amp; Mass Media Complete, Film &amp; Television Literature Index, the Humanities Index, America: History &amp; Life, and others. They searched with keywords Sitcoms and History and found some very useful material. The librarian then helped the student find books in our collection, including: <em>The Columbia History of American Television<\/em>, the 2-volume<em>Comedy : A Geographic and Historical Guide<\/em> (with a chapter called Television Sitcoms), and <em>The Sitcom Reader : America Vi<\/em><em>ewed and Skewed<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>A researcher was looking for medical articles discussing how a diagnosis is made for a person in a persistent vegetative state. The librarian first recommended searching PubMed, with the Medical Subject Heading: Persistent Vegetative State. The librarian then suggested using the National Guideline Clearinghouse, a resource from the US Department of Health and Human Services, to find other definitions and assessment techniques.\u00a0Finally, the librarian advised looking at relevant professional organizations for additional material, including: American Neurological Association, American Association of Neurological Surgeons, and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Week in Reference, research topics were diverse and interesting, and included: Irish Potato Famine Gender wage gap in Illinois David Alfaro Siqueiros Orem&#8217;s self care deficit Unionization of college athletes And, some other conversations weve had via IM, in person, email, or over the phone: A student pinged into our IM service, asking for <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/2014\/03\/07\/sitcoms-and-potato-famine\/\" class=\"read-more\">continue reading<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-week-in-reference"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8GMS7-4E","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5467,"href":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions\/5467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}