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Chronicles the peripatetic appointments and encounters of Leopold Bloom in Dublin in the course of an ordinary day, 16 June 1904. It is the Latinised name of Odysseus, the hero of Homer's epic poem Odyssey, and the novel establishes a series of parallels between its characters and events and those of the poem
What is Ulysses, a novel by James Joyce, published in 1922.
100
Academic Search Complete (EBSCO)
What is the most popular bibliographic database offered through the WIU Libraries?
100
Located on the fourth floor of Malpass library, but increasingly only available in digital format.
What are U.S. and Illinois state government documents?
100
Ralph Waldo Emerson called them "professors of books."
Who are librarians?
100
"googol"
What is googol is the large number 10100; that is, the digit 1 followed by 100 zeroes: 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000.
200
Library of Congress Classification System.
What is the system libraries use to organize books on the various floors and shelves. A classification system uses letters and/or numbers (call numbers) to arrange the books so that books on the same topic are together. This arrangement results in "serendipitous browsing:" you find one book in the catalog, go to the shelf, and, an even better book is sitting right next to it.
200
Offers students the full text of many professional and scholarly journals going back to the 19th century.
What is JSTOR?
200
Copying from a source that is not your own without adequate attribution.
What is plagiarism?
200
Master of Library Science (MLS).
What is the highest degree held by most librarians at WIU? In recent years, my colleagues also have PhDs. To be a tenured professor in the library at WIU, the candidate has to have an ALA-accredited MLS AND a second subject specific MA or PhD.
200
PageRank
What is an algorithm used by Google Search to rank websites in their search engine results? PageRank was named after Larry Page, one of the founders of Google. PageRank is a way of measuring the importance of website pages.
300
WestCat
What is the WIU Libraries catalog for finding books?
300
The Yellow Pages
What is essentially a non-digital database of businesses arranged by type of business.
300
Evaluation of scientific, academic, or professional work by others working in the same field.
What is peer review?
300
James H. Billington
Who is the Librarian of Congress (since 1987!)?
300
Sergey Brin
Who is one of the two founders of Google?
400
Liber Libri
What is the Latin phrase for "book"?
400
The Library of Congress and the CIA.
What are the two largest databases in the world? http://www.comparebusinessproducts.com/fyi/10-largest-databases-in-the-world
400
Letters, manuscripts, diaries, census records, government statistics, research data, etc
What are primary sources?
400
The president of the United States who donated his personal library in order to create the Library of Congress.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
400
Standford University
Where did Sergey Brin and Larry Page go to graduate school before they founded Google?
500
Biblio
What is "small book" in ancient Greek?
500
A collection of data arranged for ease and speed of search and retrieval.
What is database?
500
Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Cognition, Foreign Affairs, Journal of Park and Recreation, Journal of Educational Psychology, Management Accounting Research, etc.
What are scholarly journals? They are subject to the peer review process.
500
Leslie F. Malpass
Who is the seventh president of Western Illinois University?
500
Bing and Yahoo.
What are the number two and three search engines in popularity after Google? http://www.ebizmba.com/articles/search-engines