{"id":334,"date":"2014-06-13T19:00:52","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T19:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/?p=334"},"modified":"2017-05-02T09:50:45","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T15:50:45","slug":"walter-benjamin-and-family-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/2014\/06\/13\/walter-benjamin-and-family-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Walter Benjamin and Family Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Classes are over, and the final citations are being written in APA, MLA, \u00a0and Chicago styles. \u00a0In addition to reference formatting questions, topics coming to the reference librarians <a href=\"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/category\/this-week-in-reference\/\">This Week in Reference<\/a>\u00a0include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Walter Benjamin<\/li>\n<li>William Conger<\/li>\n<li>Chess Records<\/li>\n<li>Scrabble<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And, an in-depth look at some conversations we\u2019ve had via IM, in person, through email, or over the phone:<\/p>\n<p>A student was looking for information about what it meant to be a \u201csuccessful\u201d family in the early 1900s. The librarian asked questions about the assignment to help narrow down the search, and found quite a few useful articles in Academic Search Complete, with the terms households OR families AND united states AND history.\u00a0Also recommended was the resource\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/library.depaul.edu\/CheckURL.aspx?address=http:\/\/go.galegroup.com\/ps\/i.do?id=GALE%7C9781414411163&amp;v=2.1&amp;u=depaul&amp;it=aboutBook&amp;p=GVRL&amp;sw=w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>American Decades<\/em><\/a>. The student could search for the word \u201cfamily\u201d across all of the volumes\/decades and they found some wonderful material, including an article entitled \u201cHome Life: 1900-1909.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A researcher needed statistical information on graduation and retention rates for students with disabilities. \u00a0The librarian immediately pointed out the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nces.ed.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Center for Educational Statistics<\/a>, listed on the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/libguides.depaul.edu\/friendly.php?s=education\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Education Research Guide<\/a>. \u00a0He also provided the student with a link for the report:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=2&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=0CCkQFjAB&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncld.org%2Fimages%2Fcontent%2Ffiles%2Fdiplomas-at-risk%2FDiplomasatRisk.pdf&amp;ei=_AKSU6arCcG3yASL0oHIDQ&amp;usg=AFQjCNE9JSffK1UdR7r0tS3PVjfLws6eOA&amp;sig2=uetXpRH5QXsvQSPFk-HMdQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Diplomas At Risk<\/a>\u00a0from the National Center for Learning Disabilities which contained all of the needed data!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Classes are over, and the final citations are being written in APA, MLA, \u00a0and Chicago styles. \u00a0In addition to reference formatting questions, topics coming to the reference librarians This Week in Reference\u00a0include: Walter Benjamin William Conger Chess Records Scrabble And, an in-depth look at some conversations we\u2019ve had via IM, in person, through email, or <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/2014\/06\/13\/walter-benjamin-and-family-life\/\" 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-334","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\/p8GMS7-5o","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334","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=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5454,"href":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions\/5454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}