Hotel guide book

The book I’m looking for is a Hotel book with the name of the owners of major hotel chains.

Such as Sheraton, owned by…etc,etc…
but this sheraton owned by, Mr. Joe smith.

Is there such a book? I thought there was one, it was about 12inches length, 6 inches wide. If you have that, please let me know.

Yolanda Belaski
408-441-1184-Shop2gether.com

PLEASE CALL ME AS SOON AS POSSIBLE

Thanks!!!

ANSWER PERSON RESPONDS: Your question is complicated first, by who actually owns all the hotels in a major chain. They may be franchised to individual owners. They also may franchised to groups that own several, or ownership is retained by the parent corporation, in which case the senior person involved with a particular facility is the manager.

All of the directories of individual hotels do not list owners. You might try the American Hotel & Motel Association (info@ahma.com) for more information.

(Their web site is at http://www.ahma.com/)

Finally, Answer Person doesn’t hit the “Suggestion” book for reference support as quickly as most (including A-Person) would like. Certainly not in a timely manner if your questions needed quick assistance. That is why there are alternatives, including:

1. Our phone service, but coming from California this may not be the most reasonable (a realizing that we are open, normally, until 10 PM only Sunday-Thursday, and until 5 PM on Fridays and Saturdays); or
2. A local library–there are several good ones in the San Jose area; or
3. E-mail Reference at askref@duke.edu.

Zerox machines at Perkins

Over weekends and during evening hours, zerox machines in Perkins (especially in basement floors) are often out of order because paper jams are left uncleared. Is it possible to have someone go around and clear the jam from time to time after the regular office hour? The congestion of zerox machine use should be alleviated if all machines are working.

ANSWER PERSON RESPONDS: Office Products does have people check the machines in the off hours, but Answer Person is sending your comment on for their review. Do you think one copy will be enough?

Do you want to acquire mexican magazines

Dear Srs.
Cps is a Mexican company dedicated exclusively to the hiring, promotion and distribution of the existing bibliographical material in Mexico, its main interest, is the one to inform to you what in Mexico this ediitando itself, and that you can acquire right away.

CPS offers their experience to him in this heading, and puts to their disposition their experience that goes alla of 18 years more.

Throughout more than 10 years, CPS to dice to the task of concentrating in a data base, more than 4000 titles of magazines, newspapers, bulletins, series, etc., to inform to them to you.

CPS counts on an electronic page in which you will be able to find the titles effective, which are podran to acquire right away.

Our direction is: http://mexred.net.mx/~coprose

Hoping to be able to serve they, had left of you.

Miguel A. Caballero M.
Genral Manager

ANSWER PERSON RESPONDS: !Muchas Gracias!

The Answer Person is forwarding your offer to our bibliographer for Latin American studies.

You might want to check out her web site at:

http://www.lib.duke.edu/ias/latamer/

Books

Where can i find info. on a book called “The First Men in Space”, by Gregory P. Kennedy

ANSWER PERSON RESPONDS: This book is held by many libraries, though not by Duke. A list of several in North Carolina appears at the bottom of this response.

FYI, a much better way to submit reference questions is through AskRef (askref@duke.edu). The Reference Department checks that daily, whereas the Answer Person is not nearly as responsible.

Also, Duke faculty, students and staff can request books from other libraries using the forms on the Interlibrary Loan home page (http://www.lib.duke.edu/ill/ILLhomepage.html)

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CUMBERLAND CNTY PUB LIBR & INFO CTR
MCDOWELL CNTY PUB LIBR
HIGH POINT PUB LIBR
APPALACHIAN REG LIBR
WESTERN CAROLINA UNIV
PUBLIC LIBR OF CHARLOTTE & MECKLENBURG
ELIZABETH CITY STATE UNIV
WAKE CNTY PUB LIBR
RANDOLPH PUB LIBR
PERSON CNTY PUB LIBR
GASTON-LINCOLN REG LIBR
IREDELL CNTY LIBR
FORSYTH CNTY PUB LIBR

Uncover Reveal

Could the library consider joining Uncover Reveal, a service that allows members of the site to receive table of contents from up to 50 periodicals? The service also allows you to select keywords and receive any article citations that match these.

http://uncweb.carl.org:80/reveal/

Thanks,
Liz Zechmeister

ANSWER PERSON RESPONDS: Members of the Duke community already have access to the Uncover Reveal service.

Check out the Current Periodicals web page (http://www.lib.duke.edu/access/cpers.htm). Go to the “Current Awareness Service” section. It will link you to instructions on how to use the service.

ISBN: #0-444-82470-7

Please consider my reference work, Elsevier’s Medical Terminology for the Practicing Nurse. Published by Elsevier Science in The Netherlands, 1998, this will next be produced on CD-ROM. Thank you. Sally F. Vanderwerf, RN, BN,BS. vanderwerf@earthlink.net

ANSWER PERSON RESPONDS: Your request will be sent on to the Medical Center Library.

Thank you for the suggestion.

Lilly East-West Express

The East-West Express is not very express. Last Thursday I submitted a request (via the web) for a Perkins book to be delivered to Lilly (yes, I know the Library was closed on Thursday). Now its 1600 on Monday and apparently the book hasn’t even been checked out to my name yet. I was under the impression that there was a pretty regular shuttle going back and forth between campuses. If the turnaround time is normally 2 days or more, that’s OK, I can make arrangements to trek over to west to pick up the book, I just need to know how long to expect.

ANSWER PERSON RESPONDS: I will pass your comment on to the circulation desks at Perkins and Lilly. It is possible that the hurricane threw staffing and operations off a bit, but it shouldn’t take this long.