Questions from the desk

-local high school student needed to find books and articles about Jack Ruby

-community member doing research for a memoir by a former UCSC student from the 1970's
(including info about minority students groups now and then; the 1975 sit-in re: EOP)

-faculty needed help doing a search in our catalog for handmade books

-community member found a book in Google books, needed to find the source of a quotation used, but could not see the page with the source in Google books (we had it and I emailed the source)

-student currently writing a policy statement on the overspending on and
overpopulated prison in California

-PhD student in Hong Kong needed help with contemporary Latin American cinema research in determining which libraries in California (Los Angeles in particular) had a particular film

-graduate student at UCB developing a resource management plan for a ranch property in southern San Benito
County and is trying to determine if it had been part of a Mexican land grant

-graduate student needed to find books, articles, or websites on pre-Christian Basque mythology, specifically a deity associated with caves

-student looking at California high school exit exam information, specifically Latino students failure rate