Learning for Learning's Sake

I'm taking the lead from a post on the "2.1" site and from a coworker's blog to learn something new, if not "every day" than regularly as a matter of life stance. That seems less daunting than "every day" and has a permanent sort of ring to it besides. Today I investigated more places to find full text articles on the open web and snooped around on Magportal.com. I did a search for "Polling companies" from a sample query given in the book I am currently reading: "Conducting the Reference Interview" a 2009 edition of a "How-To-Do-It Manual for Librarians". I checked it out a while back and ended by purchasing it because I could not bear to part with it.

Meanwhile, back to Magportal... my search for polling companies was yielding discouraging results until I narrowed the query to either political, commerical, academic, or some other category of polling. That helped but was still focusing on the results of polls. Let's see...the customer query cited in the Reference Interview book was "Do you have anything on polling companies?" Oh - so maybe it's really a question for Refence USA, for just the names of companies who do polls. See, you really do have to ask people to clarify what they really want. I have to remember that. No customer to ask this time though.

I went over to SPL's site for Ref USA but they're doing site maintenance this week so it will have to wait until later.