Pound isn't read much in high schools, of course, so this list doesn't receive many elementary requests for help with homework. They come flooding into other lists, though -- sometimes so thick and fast that they slow the list down. But abundant or not, the requests are worth thinking about in pedagogical terms. You want to help, of course, but on the other hand you really aren't helping if you just write the paper (or the bibliography) for the inquirer. So what do you do? For a start, you read Phil Agre's excellent essay "The Art of Getting Help." This can be found at http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/getting-help.html Jonathan Morse