I have finished my Culture Site Project and I feel great. Uploading and placing the pictures where I wanted was pretty easy. The only snag is that I forgot to put the pages on the side bar, but I will do that now and then be 100% officially done. I had a good time working on this project. I learned so much about Irene Curie and her life and her family and her technology. I myself am not very good with the Sciences, but learning about Irene Curie actually helped me to better understand, since I had to rewrite many informations about her project into non-sciencey (new word) English.
For this weeks assignment I was to search for articles and books on Irene Curie, and then talk to a Library to help further assist me. I decided to talk to a Librarian once I was having troubles with finding actual articles of substance on Irene Curie. I only found one article that was on both her and her husband and their work that was about 4 pages long. Then I found a lot of articles in French, and a lot of Book reviews.
I am currently in Germany so I cannot actually check out a book from a Library, well I could but it would be in German and the German Libraries only have a small selection of books in English.
I started my chat with the Librarian with the Question: I’m looking for online books or journals about Irene Curie, but many of the ones I find when I search are book reviews or very short. I’m currently in Germany so I cannot get a book from the Library on her, so it would have to be online. Can you please help me search for a good source?
And then the Librarian responded acting all snooty (just a presumption since it was online, but I felt snootiness coming across the computer) They sent me a link to an article on German Reference Service saying it was “just for future reference”. Which made me feel like I was wasting their time, and that they thought I was stupid, since clearly I don’t know how the German Library System works. Which I do, it is just that in this case, since I need books and articles IN ENGLISH not German, I thought I would ask a Librarian for help to find scholarly journals online.
THEN the Librarian asked me if I had an Oregon Library card and I explained that I go to Oregon State and the Professor said if we need help looking up articles online to chat with a Librarian and the link from my professor led me to them. The Librarian was said “So you can search the OSU databases then, yes?And search for articles on her there?” Which from that question/statement I got that they clearly had not listened to anything I had been saying. In my initial question I said that I had already searched and did not find anything, so I was just looking for a little help.
In the end though the Librarian did give me two sources, but it wasn’t anything I couldn’t have found on my own. They were both one of the first few sites in a google search, but it was still nice.
All in all I don’t think I will be chatting with a Librarian online, at least not one that is not an Oregon State University Librarian who doesn’t know what I am talking about, and definitely not until I come back to the United States.
My new person for my Culture Site is Irene Curie, daughter of Marie Curie. Irene Curie was also a scientist like her parents. She was given the Nobel Prize in 1935 for Chemistry discovering new radioactive isotopes developed artificially.
Irene’s culture is different from mine in that she was French and I am American-Brazilian also she lived during two world wars and so far, there haven’t been any world wars in my lifetime.
Irene Curie was born on September 12, 1897 in Paris, France and died on March 17, 1956 also in Paris.