20 Answers to 20 Questions, A Library Scavenger Hunt

Grand Prize Winner:

There was a tie between two people for first place. After a random drawing, the final results were:

Grand prize winner of the 256M Wolverine data flash drive (provided by Elsevier)
Layne Novak (100%)

Second place winner of the mini optical mouse for notebooks (provided by Wiley InterScience)
Yasha Noble-Talaga (100%)

Runners up winners of a travel alarm clock (provided by Blackwell-Synergy).

  1. Anne Pizzi
  2. Nicholas Kriho
  3. Donna Ameismeier
  4. Ruth Sharp
  5. Jennifer Phillips
  6. Samina Ahmed
  7. Margaret Peirog
  8. Susan Breitenstein
  9. Joyce Keithley
  10. Barbara Swanson

 

The answers to the questions are located below. The Library wishes to thank everyone who participated in the Scavneger Hunt and all of our other National Library Week activities.


 


1. According to Who's Who in the Library, the Director of the Library is:

B) Christine D. Frank, MLS, AHIP, Director


2. What is the name of the exhibit on the landing between the 5th and the 7th floor of the Library?

A) Foreign bodies removed from the air and food passages of young children.

3. The Medical Center Archives hosts Photo of the Month. Each month, one historical image is scanned and added to the Photo of the Month online collection. (See: Medical Center Archives home page)

C) a Snow Leopard

4. When you need an article that is not available in the Library, you place your request via Interlibrary loan using an electronic system called:

B) ILLIAD


5. What would the fine be for an overdue circulating book (not a reserve book)?

B) $1 a day

6. A bust of the founder of Rush Medical College was donated by the class of 1929. Where is the bust and who is the founder?


C) A bust of Dr. Daniel Brainard, founder of Rush is located on the landing between the 5th and 7th floor.

7. The Archives display, "A Brief History of Buildings at Rush" is located on the 5th floor of the Library. Within the display is a brick. Where is the brick from?

B) Schweppe Sprague Hall


8. The METC has how many "study" rooms?

A) 0 (The METC has Media Viewing Rooms!)

9. According to FAQ's About Use of Copyrighted Materials for Courses which is linked from the Library Services page (http://www.lib.rush.edu/library/library.html), there are four factors which should be considered when determining "fair use" according to Section 107 of the 1976 Copyright Act. Which of the following statements is NOT one of them?


C) The copyrighted work can be downloaded from the internet
(Just because it is online does not mean you have free access to material!)


10. Which Library Database

A) Community of Science


11. You would use "Mixed Media" when


B) you need to use a CD-ROM or DVD-ROM that accompanies a library book


12. The METC is:

The Correct answer is D.

A) A division of the Library of Rush University Medical Center

B) An entity comprised of the former Learning Resource Center and Academic Computing departments

C) Located on the 9th Floor of the Armour Academic Center

D) All of the above


13. What is Teach on Peach (See link on Library home page)?

A) A service where reference librarians are available to locate patient education information for Rush University Medical Center hospital staff to assist in educating their patients. Information will normally be delivered within 24 hours.

14. A journal is considered "embargoed" when online access is not granted to current editions for a specified length of time. When this occurs the RushCat record will have a message similar to: "Full text 1997+ ; 12-month embargo." This means the current twelve months are not on-line.

According to RushCat which of the following on-line full-text journal title is not “embargoed.”
(RushCat can be found at http://sunlibrary.is.rpslmc.edu/cytools/CyberHTML?HTMLOPAC)

D) Lancet Infectious Diseases

15. E ~ Reserves is an option on the Library's homepage. (See the gray box at top of Library home page). E~Reserves is used to:

D) access required course reading

16. According to the Ovid Introduction page (http://www.lib.rush.edu/library/ovidintro.html), if you would like OvidWeb to notify you of updates via email whenever new articles that match your search criteria become available, you would:

A is the correct answer. Use B to save your search for later review

A) set up an Auto Alert in your OvidWeb Personal Account

B) set up a Permanent Search in your OvidWeb Personal Account


17. What does CINAHL stand for? (Need a hint? See the Library Database at http://www.lib.rush.edu/servlets/EJournal/SearchEJournalDbase.)

D) The Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature

18. The following people have access to the METC computer lab 24 hours a day:


B) All Rush Students.

19. Only one nursing student with the last name "Rush" graduated from one of Rush Nursing School's predecessors. Using the "Our Unique Resources" section of the Archives web site, find her first name and the date that she graduated.


B) Pearl, 1924

20. According to RushCat, what is the call number and title of the book we own about the founder of Rush Medical College?
(RushCat can be found at http://sunlibrary.is.rpslmc.edu/cytools/CyberHTML?HTMLOPAC)


The correct answer is “C”, Saga of a Surgeon, a biography of Dr. Daniel Brainard. Rush Medical College was founded by Dr. Brainard, and named after Dr. Benjamin Rush. Dr. Rush was the only physician to sign the Declaration of Independence.

C) WZ 100 B14 K46s 1987, Saga of a Surgeon

A) WZ 100 R952b 2004, Benjamin Rush, Patriot and Physician

 


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