While researching sandstorms in the American Southwest this winter I came across a lack of information concerning a sandstorm that occured in Tucson, Arizona in 1971. The only online details of this storm were: "A dust storm that occurred near Tucson, Arizona on July 16 was extensively documented by meteorologists." Continuing my search I came across this sentence again and again - "extensively documented by meteorologists"... and nothing else. Through our E-Library I found an article abstract from the January 197X edition of Scientific American, then found the magazine in the basement of Central. I have posted details from this article to Wikipedia's "Sandstorm" page.
I also attempted to write a Wikipedia article, but it proved to be too complicated to do so properly while maintaining customer service duties at the info desk. This attempt greatly increased my respect for the validity of Wikipedia articles. There are a lot of hoops to jump through, and tons of reading, to submit a valid article. I will use Wikipedia even more now, with increased faith, knowing how much work goes into an article's creation.
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