Lesson 10. Wrap Up.



1. There was no one biggest surprise for me here there were many. I completely enjoyed this challenge and I learned many things that I was not aware of before. I believe it will help me with my job as a Reference Librarian, with access to so many tools that I was unaware of before.

2. I will use or promote these resources with anyone who will listen. I know that many of the students will benefit from my knowledge that I have received by taking this challenge.

Lesson 9. History and Genealogy Resources Ancestry Library, Heritage Quest, and Sanborn Maps.



1. I found three entries under my name the number one was a U. S. Public Record Index. It gave my name, my birth date, and addresses where I had lived. The other two were U. S. Phone and Address directories and that gave name, address, city, state, zip code, phone number, and the residence number of years.

2. I found a 1930 U. S. Census Record of my Great Grandfather, my Grandfather was five years old at the time. It was from the McNeely, Tripp, South Dakota. It said that my Great Grandfather Harry rented the house at that time, he was a farmer born in Iowa, his Father birthplace was in Germany. He nor my Great Grandmother had any education, but both could read, write and speak English. It gave their current age at the time and the age in which they married, and it lists four children at that time, they ended up with seven,
my Grandfather was was five and the youngest at that time.

3. There are a vast amount of  results by just typing in South Dakota, a few that I found interesting were the Professional Baseball players, 1876-2004, that hail from South Dakota.
I also enjoyed the School Yearbooks, but I think my favorite was the South Dakota Family Photo Collection.

4. This time I did a search for my Dad's, Dad. Under the 1940 Census result it gave me his Surname, Given Name, Age, Sex, Race, Birthplace, State, County, Location and Year.

5. I looked at a Rapid City may the first one to be indexed was in August 1887. The first building I recognized was on the corner of Main and Sixth Street, at that time the building was called The International Hotel. Today is is known as the Alex Johnson Hotel, and it has been since 1928.

Lesson 8. WorldCat,  CAMIO and More


1. Accession number, Author, ISBN, ISSN, Journal Source, Subject, and Title.

2. 2,651 have the book worldwide, S.D.S.M. & T. Devereaux Library it lists as the library nearest to you that has the specific book I was searching for.

3.We have 79 books written by James Patterson, with the subject of Female Friendship, Monte Carlo,
Monaco, Americans, and False Imprisonment.

4. When I searched in OAIster and typed is South Dakota in the keyword box, there were
13,719 search results of course you can refine your search results by adding a specific title, author, year, and by using an ISBN Number. I chose a Annual Report from State Department of Health Tuberculosis Control Program, upon opening this program I found the availability of the report the Author,, Frequency, Description, Language, and Access, which by the way was in PDF Form which makes viewing the report easy. After access there were subject headings. All and  all a very nice database.

Lesson 7.    Ebooks on Ebsco


1. I did a search term using "American Horror Story," and got all kinds of funny hit with this term. But I chose one that fit the bill pretty well, the title is The Complete Idiots Guide to Ghosts and Haunting's. Beside the categories tab it listed Body, Mind and Spirit/ Supernatural. I liked the fact that if breaks down to some of the most relevant pages; you could view the Table of Contents, find other formats and editions and you could also fine similar results.


2. Employment Discrimination: Quick Answers to Everyday Questions, Religion in the Schools: A Reference Handbook, Our Elusive Constitution: Silences, Paradoxes, Priorities, and The Federalist Notes.


3. I chose Nebraska, as expected all the books were published from the University of Nebraska.
My search results yielded 56 Ebooks the majority of these books were on Native Americans Histories, Biographies, Social Sciences, and some Psychology.

LESSON 6.    GALE VIRTUAL REFERENCE LIBRARY



1. I selected the American Civil War Reference Library 5V., 2000. I have always been intrigued by the Civil War,  and this book has every detail a person would want to know, I personally was interested in the timeline. It starts out in 1775 and ends in 1981. I would like to read this from top to bottom and I would suggest it to any student who is writing this topic.

2. I chose to look at Literary Themes for students: I wanted to pick my own search term but upon seeing The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, I could not pass up to look into that as it is one of my favorite books. I love the listen option it makes it easy to follow along, and I know many students would see this as a huge plus with the help of their studies.


3. Again as I stated in my previous blog, I feel uncomfortable looking at others blogs. I know that they are meant to be viewed, I just don't like to comment on others work, when one writes it takes on each persons own individuality and personality and that is very personal for some people.

LESSON 5.    PROQUEST



1. I did a basic search in Proquest  and for my search term I put in Mob Wives, not only because I like the Television Show but also because I am also interested in why one would chose to be in that type of lifestyle.
While a lot of my searches did turn up articles about the actual television show there were also Dissertations and Thesis, Magazines, Scholarly Journals, Trade Journals, and Newspaper articles. You can narrow your results by clicking on any the options available, and I must say that our students use this resource all the time.
They love it.
Side note, I did find a interesting book to look into from a trade journal called The Booklist, the book was entitled  "No Questions Asked, The Secret Life of Women in the Mob."


1a. By randomly picking one or two fellow bloggers the first thing I noticed was how others write compared to myself. They seem to be more precise in there writing where I tend to ramble, which is actually really like myself.


2. I typed in Library and got 41 publications and found many that I will definitely go back through and look more carefully at.

Lesson 4 SIRS

SIRS Discoverer
1. I looked up an article on Mountain Lions, titled, "Mountain Lion Facts and Fallacies."
It was listed as a Challenging read.

2. One might find the most useful feature in the SIRS Discoverer to be the ability to translate the document into many different foreign languages, there were also graphics, print, and listen to the article.
When I chose from "Country Facts," I noted that they had a lot of useful information such as;
The counties official name, the capital and the population.
The continent or region of the country, the government type/ officials.
It then listed the agricultural, climate, currency, languages, holidays/observances, and finally major events in history.
I then preceded to look at Maps of the World, there are over 3000 detailed printable maps. Maps range from the U. S., Canada, Nations, Regions, U. S. Historical, World Historical, and a outline.
Database Features has newspapers, magazines, reference material, graphics, and web sites it also has
reading levels, subjects , activities, fiction, and people.
I do not believe that SIRS Discoverer is useful in the college library I work in but I can see how others may find it very useful.


SIRS Issue Researcher

1. I chose the topic of Same Sex Marriage, at the top they had what exactly was the issue, the pros and cons of the topic. They also had Essential Questions an interactive may, research tools they offer a see also toolbar which may be used to limit research.

2. Under the Curriculum Pathfinders there were course subjects, my courses.
Under course subjects I chose Science, and to bring my wide topic down, I chose under tools, Research Guidance. I could narrow my results even finer by choosing between the source types but found a subject I found interesting. The title was "Scientific Inquiry and Technique," it told me where  the article came from and a summary of the article as well as subjects it touched on.
The SIRS Issue Researcher maybe a fairly useful databases for our freshman students, but other than that I don't think there will be much any other use. But it is good to know that it's their for situations when perhaps a student with a teenager comes in and asks for help for them.

Lesson 3. Learning Express

After answering a section of ACT questions, I clicked on the view answers and got to see the section of test that I had taken. I told me what I needed to work on and which questions I answered were right or wrong.
I feel that this resource will be very helpful to many users, I can see many of our students taking advantage of this resource. I also looked at the Skills Improvement / Carrier Topic, and I chose an eBook that I was interested in. It was in Culinary Arts after reading through this I changed my opinion on wanting to try to get into Culinary Arts, it appears I wouldn't have the stamina to keep up with the fast paced kitchen life. I'll stick with my day job and the cooking to my own little kitchen.
In my last blog I wrote about Chilton and Mango and I neglected to say how helpful these resources will be for our students, Yearly, I get students in asking if we have Chilton books, or if we have Rosetta Stone. So it will be extremely nice for me to show them what the state has to offer them.

Lesson 2. Chilton Library Basic


1. On a 2003 Buick Century, 3 things that should be done by 30,000 miles are; Replace air cleaner and PCV valve.
Service/ Inspect accessory drive belt.
Service/ Inspect Automatic transmission fluid and filter.

2. Most recent recall notice was on May 03,2006,  and the problem was a GM Product Recall Campaign Follow Up Post Card.



Lesson 2. Mango Languages

1. I chose Italian because it is a language I have always wanted to learn to speak, and also because I have a little Italian in my blood. I learned that about 70 million people speak Italian as their first language, and that about 125 million people speak it as their second language. It is spoken in Italy, Switzerland, San Marina, Vatican City, Malta, Slovenia, Croatia, Eritrea, Somalia, France especially in Corsica.

2. I think this will be very helpful to a person learning a new language. I liked that it took everything in steps, such as, learn one word , then another, finally you end with a sentence. It seemed to add words a little fast for me and it was a little bothersome, but if you get to tripped up you can always keep going back.

World Book Foreign Language
Lesson 1 c.

1. This could be useful because it can be viewed in either English or Spanish and you can see how the different parts of the animal how the different parts of the animal are called.


2. It would be useful to people who don't speak either language very well learn either the pronunciation or the text.

Lesson 3.
World Book Advanced

I searched for Italy, and then narrowed my search down to Italian Language.
On the far left you have search results, next Encyclopedia Articles, then to the right Primary Sources, and E-books.
I then clicked on Italian Language again on the far left you get your article contents, main sections, introduction, and Italian grammar. In the next section you get Italian grammar characteristics, and then nouns, adjectives, verbs, word order and development.



Lesson 4.
World Book Discover

On this lesson I searched for Marquis de Lafayette.
The tools at the top of the page that will help foreign readers are the highlighter search term in text and the double-click a word to define it.

Lesson 1.
World Book Kids

My first blog I misread the instructions now after looking more carefully at the following question I have chosen a different topic.
Today's blog is about Dogs. I am an avid lover of animals, Dogs especially I own 1 and I also have 1 Cat, who I equally affectionate for.
Dogs are the first animal tamed by people, at first people used dogs for protection or as work dogs, they trained the dogs to herd other animals and to help in hunting.
Today the majority of people feel and treat their dogs and other animals as members of their own family. Which is kind of ironic because all dogs descend from wolves which are pack animals.
There are many different types of dogs today.



Lesson 2.
World Book School Edition

For this lesson I chose an animal that I know very well, and that is one of a Cardigan Welsh Corgi, this is the kind of dog that I own.
They are a small strong breed of dog, when first breed they were used to herd cattle by nipping at their feet,
my own dog does this not to cattle but to me, to make sure I am going where she wants me to go.
The word Corgi comes from two Welsh words that mean dwarf dog, they have a fox-like appearance with large ears and a long bushy tail, and a rough coat.
They are on average about 12 inches tall, and usually weigh about 26-34 pounds, although, mine probably weighs about 40 to 50 pounds, maybe not that much but she is a bit chubby.

Today, using World Book Kids, I looked up an animal that I have always found to be a little bit scary.
So I decided I wanted to know more about the animal.
It is a Barracuda, It has very scary looking teeth, very long, narrow and extremely sharp.
They can grow up to be about 6 feet long, and weigh as much as 100 pounds.
There are more than a dozen types of barracuda's, they live in the Atlantic, Indian, and Western Pacific Oceans.