New Reference Additions:

Desk Reference to Nature's Medicine, published by National Geographic Magazine, lists 150 medicinal plants used as dietary supplements and as components of prescription drugs. Interspersed throughout the book are essays explaining how specific regions use plants for healing.

Read On…Historical Fiction groups the genre into five creative categories, including language and mood.

Value of a Dollar: Colonial Era to the Civil War not only lists prices and wages, but also describes the history of the time period through economy and banking practices.

Interesting Web Sites:

Customer Service Contact Information
www.dvdtalk.com/csr.html
This site lists customer service telephone numbers and email addresses for online stores that sell DVDs and other electronics.

All About Apples
www.allaboutapples.com/
Here is everything you wanted to know about apples, including a list of orchards in the United States and Canada.

Stumper for July:

I need a list of the board of directors for the Valley Independent Bank in El Centro, California.

Answer: The North American Financial Institutions Directory lists contact information for banks nationwide. It includes small institutions that, surprisingly, do not have web sites.

Gwendolyn Charter, the Head of Reference at Peabody Institute Library in Peabody, noted that the Valley Independent Bank in El Centro is no longer independent. It has been purchased by the Rabobank Group.

Stumper for September

How many children did Freud have and what are their names?

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