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Leonsagara:
I'm currently enrolled at Rutgers University in a MLIS(Master's in Library and Info Science) program and for one of my classes we have to find someone who needs to find some information and basically help them find whatever they're looking for as a term project.  I couldn't really think of anyone I know personally that needs that kind of help, so I thought this would be a good place to ask(and the professor ok'd it already).  Being a university student, I have access to a lot of databases and resources the average person probably doesn't, so that should be helpful to whoever is looking for something that they're having a hard time finding.

Anyway, please just let me know if I can help.  I haven't really thought of a fair selection process, other than that it has to be something more than some basic statistics or simple facts(as per the professor's instructions).  Obviously, I can only cover one person's needs for this project.  I'll try to come up with a fair way to pick someone when I see how many of you actually need/want my help.  Of course, if Jim happens to see this and actually wants my help, you guys are on your own  :). 

Thanks!

Shecky:
Have you thought of posting it outside Author Craft, say, in Mac's, so that more people would see it? And what kind of field are you proposing research for?

logarithm.and.blues:
That sounds like a really cool term project.

I would ask for your help, but I don't really have any projects on hand that really need researching (if only I had English 3 this semester...). I'd also ask for your help on my Personal Project (I'm in the IBMYP program), but I'm planning to write a fanfic of The Dresden Files (which, I know, is frowned upon in general, but I don't plan to publish it). The major problems with that is that I'm not sure if I can get Jim's permission to write it (plagarism will get you kicked out of MYP).

How long do you have to find someone?

meg_evonne:
Here you go, you can save me looking it up on the internet or we can compare our answers.  Time of the sunset on Dec 21st 2009 in Rome, Italy?  :-)

Or I'm looking for a good source that might give me an idea of a meal after a death in a traditional jewish family at the time of Christ... Yeah, that one is probably impossible!  LOL  I haven't started researching that either.  I've friends to ask but doubt they will know how things would have changed from 2000 years ago!

Or I've lost my source from a philosopher who started the school in Edessa around the 300 to 400's well known for his music litergy and I'm specifically looking for the text of his sermon or psalm about the "Guilty Woman" or the "sinful Woman" or something like that.  I found it on google. 

All, I can find on my own eventually but if you really want some research experience to report on I'll keep you in mind!  I've already done a ton of research, but there is always more that I can use to add texture and depth! 

After that particular writing project I'll be jumping into the story behind a female sea commander who was Persian.  She shouldn't be too hard to find as she was well known.  I've a year before I jump into that one, but always willing to start research on it....  Oh and maps from the time along with pertinent historical events at the time.

Are you tired yet?  Yes, I was a junior librarian in my day.  Finding answers was my primary job in high school and college.  It's easier now. 

:-)

Leonsagara:
Well, I thought here would be the place people would most have research to actually do, but I just posted it on Mac's.  No specific field in mind, just something that would probably interest me.  So probably not anything too hardcore science-y.

I have to hand in my topic for what I'm going to research on October 1st.

Options 2,3, and 4 sound interesting, but I'll have to double-check with the prof first.  1 is probably too shallow for a term project.  And I got 4:41 p.m.

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