CLUE ONE - Nicole Pagowsky

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CLUE ONE
A dead body has been found in the library! We have hired you on
as private detectives to solve this case. Make sure you fill out
your paperwork to keep track of clues. First find out what the
police and medical examiner discovered at the scene of the
crime. The victim was found at a library exhibit: check the UA
Libraries website to figure out which one.
Hint: it explores two types of music influential in Tucson’s
culture. Poke around this exhibit to find your first envelope.
Be sure not to touch the glass on the exhibit cases, so your
fingerprints don’t get mixed up with the suspect’s!
CLUE TWO
Victim stats: male, fur-covered, claws... oh no it’s Wilbur
Wildcat!
Wilbur Wildcat
Hometown:
Tucson, AZ
Height / Weight:
6-3 / 225
Position:
Mascot
The police say the victim was found face-down in the middle of
the exhibit with no murder weapon present, just an old piece of
rope covered in some strange-looking fingerprints tied to one of
the exhibit cases. The medical examiner notes that the rope was
not instrumental in the murder, there were simply rope-marks on
the victim’s right ankle. She listed cause of death to be
exsiccation.
To figure out what exsiccation is (to determine how the victim
died) and find your next clue, go to the subject guide for
health on the UA Libraries site: Search and Find > Subject
Guides > Health, and search in Stedman’s Medical Dictionary with
this term. What is the five-letter word that is an antidote for
this affliction? (Hint: it’s a liquid.)
A:__Water____
Since Tucson is near the border, the police are concerned the
murderer fled the country. The way the victim died seems to
occur often near the border, so try to get more information by
doing a keyword search in the library catalog for the five
letter word you discovered AND border. Look at the results
listed and click on number two. Write down the title and call
number.
A:__The role of two NAFTA institutions in developing water infrastructure in
the US/Mexico border region, HF1746.C37 2002
Now go to the stacks to get this book, and this is where you
will find your next clue.
CLUE THREE
Now that you’ve figured out information about the victim and
cause of death, and you are watching the border to make sure the
murderer does not escape to Mexico, you should start uncovering
the identity of the murderer.
During a donut break, you overhear the police officers talking
about “aliens,” and that a copy of the Oxford English Dictionary
(OED) was left at the scene of the crime open to the page on
aliens with 3b circled. This detail had not been included in the
police report. Luckily, you can search the OED online at the UA
Libraries, even if the physical copy the killer left behind is
locked up at police headquarters.
To search this dictionary, go to the UA Libraries home page,
hover over “Articles and Databases,” and navigate to O for
Oxford English Dictionary. Searching this database for “alien”
will help you learn the origin of the word. Look at entry 3b.
Write down the source and quote from the first use of the term
as science fiction.
A:__1944, Astounding Sci Fi, “An alien ship, all right.”
Well that is a surprise! You weren’t expecting the killer to be
from *that* far away. Head down to the reference desk on the
first floor (by the Information Commons), and to get your next
clue, ask a librarian to help you find an article on UFO
sightings in Arizona in the last 50 years.
Write down the citation for your article in APA-style and show
it to the librarian to get your next clue.
A:____(wildcard)
CLUE FOUR
So now you need to figure out the killer’s motive. Knowing the
motive will help you figure out how to apprehend the suspect.
You find out from Wilma (Wilbur’s co-worker), who was with
Wilbur earlier that night at a pep rally, that he did in fact
have a blue water bottle that said UA Libraries on it, and it
was filled with water. The police forgot to interview Wilma
since they weren’t aware she was with Wilbur earlier that night,
but you did great detective work in talking with her.
She told you Wilbur said he had to run off to the library
because he heard about some extra-terrestrials trying to cover
their tracks: something about a collection of UFO dirt. The only
way UFO traces could be erased from these dirt samples was
with... water!
If you go to the police with your findings though, will they
laugh at you for suggesting this? Do some background research in
CQ Researcher first to be sure of your hypothesis. This database
is good to use when you are just learning about a new topic. Go
back to Search and Find > Articles and Databases on the UA
Libraries website and then navigate to CQ Researcher, and enter
UFO into the search box. Click on the most recent entry.
Who is the “pro-UFO meteorologist” who was “brought in with five
other experts who called for more research on the topic” in a
congressional committee investigation in 1966 on UFO sightings?
A:___James E. McDonald
Once you have this pro-UFO meteorologist’s name, go back to the
UA Libraries website and do a catalog search for items from this
author. Click on the entry for his papers and write down the
location and call number.
A:___Special Collections MS412
You did it! Now you know where to apprehend the killer. Take
this information with you to Special Collections in the
afternoon, and when you reach this collection during the tour,
ask if the killer is hiding there to receive the conclusion to
this case!
The Suspect
Case closed!
You found her! The suspect was hiding in the James E.
McDonald papers in Special Collections. She was going
to pour Wilbur’s water bottle full of water on the UFO
dirt samples so there would be no trace of extraterrestrial life forms, but you got to her just in
time. Now you can give the water bottle to the police,
and if Wilbur drinks it ASAP he will wake up from his
coma… the medical examiner made a small mistake in
pronouncing him dead…
Now you know how to use the library to do research
using the library website, articles and databases, and
books. You can even cite a source using APA style.
Congrats, detectives!

CLUE ONE - Nicole Pagowsky

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