Finding the New York Academy of Sciences

A colleague told me this morning that her son, who is a Massey science student, had been given the cruel and unusual punishment of having to find and read a chapter from one of the volumes of the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. This series is made up of edited monographs (okay, books!) each of which is separately catalogued by the library. This can make it tricky to track down a reference. Lets say we are looking for the following -

FITCH, W. M. (1974) Comparison between evolutionary substitutions and variants in human hemoglobins. Annals of The New York Academy of Sciences, 241, 439-448.

This is a chapter in the book "Hemoglobins : comparative molecular biology models for the study of disease" edited by Hyram Kitchen and Samuel Boyer but of course the chapter author (Fitch) and title (Comparison between evolutionary...) do not appear in the catalogue which lists the book and editors only. Fortunately each volume from the series does have an entry of the form "Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences ; v. 241" and you can search for them directly as a title search if you enter them directly in this precise format.

An easier method is to do a keyword search which includes the volume number - annals new york academy sciences 241. This will take you directly to the catalogue record for that volume. All the students need to do then is to familiarise themselves with the unusual print on paper format!