Reference Services
Reference librarians will:
- look up definitions, facts, formulas and other scientific or technical information.
- help with the use of the catalog, databases, and indexes.
- confirm the library's holdings.
- explain procedures and policies for circulation and use of materials.
Contact Reference
Use our online form to ask Reference Services Staff a question.
- Phone: 800-662-1545 or in the Kansas City area at 816-926-8764. Phone service is available all hours that the library is open.
- Fax: 816-926-8782
- Via e-mail
LHL Direct
For more extensive research, you are invited to use LHL Direct
Reference Guides
Use these guides for more in-depth help with some of the frequently asked topics and more complex resources in the library.
Guide #1: History of Science
and Technology
Guide #2: Units, Dimensions,
Conversions and Formulas
Guide #3: Beilsteins Handbuch
der Organischen Chemie
Additional Reference Services:
Circulation
Patents and Trademarks
Program
Standards and Specifications
Science &
Engineering Databases
Papers by Reference Librarians
Scott Curtis
- Finding ASME Technical Papers (Slides) - American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, June 23, 2008.
Eliseo Fernández
- Variescence - Cosmic Progress and Contemporary Science - International Conference "Peirce in Argentina III", Argentine Academy of Sciences - Buenos Aires, August 26-27, 2010 (English translated version)
- Variescence - Cosmic Progress and Contemporary Science - International Conference "Peirce in Argentina III", Argentine Academy of Sciences - Buenos Aires, August 26-27, 2010 (Spanish language version)
- Living is Surviving: Causation, Reproduction and Semiosis - Tenth Annual International Gatherings in Biosemiotics, Portuguese Catholic University, Braga, June 22 - 27, 2010
- Life, Temporality and Semiosis: The Place of Biosemiotics within General Semiotics - 34th Annual Meeting, University of Cincinnati, 15 October - 18 October, 2009
- Biosemiotics and the Relational Turn in Biology - Ninth Annual International Gatherings in Biosemiotics, Charles University, Prague, June 30 - July 5, 2009.
- Directed Evolution: Pruning the Tree of Life from Darwin's Demon to Nanobiotechnology Midwest Junto – March 27–29, 2009.
- Peirce in 21st Century Science and Philosophy: New Prospects (English Language)
Peirce en la Ciencia y la Filosofía del Siglo XXI: Nuevas Oportunidades (Spanish Language) - III Jornadas "Peirce en Argentina" (Third Congress "Peirce in Argentina") Buenos Aires, Argentina , September 11-12, 2008. - Biosemiotics from Peirce to Rosen - Eighth Annual International Gatherings in Biosemiotics, University of the Aegean, Syros, Greece, June 23–28, 2008
- Biosemiotics and Survival: Life and Death, Genes and Signals. 32nd Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America. New Orleans, Louisiana, October 2007.
- Signs, Instruments and Self-Reference in Biosemiotics. Seventh Annual International Gatherings in Biosemiotics, University of Groningen, Netherlands, June 6-9, 2007.
- Complexity and Peircean Relationism. Second Biennial Seminar on the Philosophical, Epistemological, and Methodological Implications of Complexity Theory. Havana, Cuba, January 2004.
- SYMMETRY: Key to Nature and Natural Philosophy. Review of: Katherine Brading and Elena Castellani (eds.), Symmetries in Physics: Philosophical Reflections. Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xii + 445.
- Information and Ersatz Reality: Comments on Albert Borgmann's Holding On to Reality - Techné 6:1 Fall 2002.
Michelle Lahey and Eric Ward
- If The Library Brand is 'Books' - Why Not Read a Few? - Bringing Nonfiction Book Discussion to the Special Library - Special Libraries' Association Annual Conference, Seattle, WA, Tuesday, June 17 2008
