New Reference Additions:

Ferguson Career Resource Guide to Apprenticeship Programs is a two volume reference set that lists more than 7,500 apprentice programs in a variety of disciplines, including carpenters, glass makers, midwives, and paperhangers. The work begins with general tips for applying to a program.

High Definition: An A to Z Guide to Personal Technology defines over 3,000 terms used to describe the latest products in electronics for the home and the workplace.

Interesting Web Sites:

Holiday Watch
http://holiday.icsc.org/
Holiday watch tracks retail information for the holiday season, including the hottest holiday gifts and the busiest shopping days.

Manage Holiday Blues
http://www.umm.edu/mentalhealth/holdos.htm
This University of Maryland site provides information for working through the holiday blues that affect so many people.

Holidays Around the World
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/holidays.htm
This site provides links to holiday celebrations for the major religions.

Stumper for November:

What is a tunnery?

Answer: A place where liquor is put into barrels.
Source: Old English Dictionary. This is an obsolete term. The question came in through MassAnswers. The patron's library was closed and the patron did not have access to a dictionary with obsolete terms.

Gwendolyn Charter, Head of Reference at the Peabody Institute Library in Peabody, found the answer to this stumper in her OED. Thanks, Gwen.

Stumper for December

I am looking for a political cartoon that depicts the Russian Czar Peter the Great as a cat. Can you find it for me?

Until next month,
Eleanor Sathan
Regional Reference Librarian
esathan@mhl.org