1. Leah Giarritano
LIS504LE: Reference and Information Services
Sources Exercises: Directories Sources
July 8, 2011
1. Using the Encyclopedia of Associations (Associations
Unlimited) resource via the University of Illinois Library
website, I was able to determine that there is one National
Organization in the United States for people interested in
origami called Origami U.S.A.
3. I was able to answer these questions using the Netadvantage
website from Standard and Poors. As of January 29, 2011, Gap
Inc. operated 3.068 stores: 1,111 Gap North America; 576
Banana Republic North America; 1,027 Old Navy North
America; 184 Gap Europe; 135 Gap Asia; 29 Banana Republic
Asia; five Banana Republic Europe and one Athleta with 38.2
million sq. ft. of total retail space. Another 178 stores are
franchised. There are a total of 135,000 employees as of
January 31, 2010.
4. By doing an advanced search using the College Catalogs
database via the University of Illinois Library website, I was
able to determine that there are 14 colleges and universities
within a 25 miles radius of San Antonio, TX.
5. Using the website for American Booksellers Association
(www.bookweb.org), I performed a search of their directory to
determine which California booksellers specialize in mysteries.
There are three: Book’em Mysteries in South Pasadena, M is
for Mystery in San Mateo and The Mystery Book Store L.A. in
Los Angeles.

2. 6. Using Hoover’s Online, I discovered that Steven Medlik is the
CFO of Oriental Trading. Oriental Trading sells more than
30,000 products, including party supplies, toys and novelties,
arts and crafts and home décor through its websites and
catalogs.
7. Using the Zip Codes website of the United States Postal
Service, I determined that the zip code is 61103.
www.usps.com/ncsc
8. I found this information using the resource Museums of the
World, 7th Edition.
9. I used the Standard and Poor’s NetAdvantage database to get
information on the current market conditions facing
companies that manufacture cardboard boxes or
“containerboard” as they are called. Paper makers (those in the
Paper & Forest Product market, including those that make
containerboard), have made a determined effort in recent
years to keep capacity in line with demand by shutting down
unneeded and high-cost facilities and by refraining from
building new machines. These efforts led to a long period of
steadily higher prices, despite a generally declining demand
trend. Conditions in the containerboard market,specifically, are
expected to remain fairly strong in 2011. Because boxes are
used to ship a wide variety of consumer and industrial goods,
this segment is one of the most economically sensitive.
However, unlike some other paper grades, demand for
containerboard has not been affected by secular changes in
print communications.
10. I found the contact information for Just for Keeps in
Publishers, Distributors and Wholesalers of the U.S., 2009.

3. Just for Keeps
P.O. Box 60091
San Diego, CA 92160
619-265-9300
I set out to challenge myself by submitting this Directory
Sources assignment, as we had been forewarned that it was a
tricky assignment. Challenge myself I did! Finding each answer
took a lot of time and patience. In some cases in was hard to
find one resource to answer a question, much less a second one
to verify what I discovered in the first resource (like question
number 5 about bookstores in California specializing in
mysteries). Overall, I found this assignment very intriguing and
empowering. Finding the answers to these questions has
taught me so much about the variety of directory resources
that are available and how to use each of them. I am gaining a
lot of experience and confidence by going to the library (as well
as using online resources) and searching through the once
intimidating reference collection.