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.