Lesson 3.

1.) I would show him that by going into the elementary school center he could practice using tutorials, Ebooks, and tests to help him with his reading comprehension.

2.) I would suggest that before her interview for the Office manager job, that she go through Learning Express and take the steps for the interviewing process, social networking skills, and skills improvement resources. Also I think it would be beneficial to try the WorkKeys assessment to practice up.

3.) If a student came to me asking for a report on careers, I would suggest that by using Learning Express, he could look into both careers by using the Explore Careers option.

Lesson 2.

Chilton Library

1.) Go to Chilton Library put in the year, make, and model. Click on repair  it gives you a list of things you may need to repair, click on steering wheel and then removal and installation. It then gives you 3 videos to look through.

2.) The A131L transaxle.


Mango Languages

1.)  I would suggest going into Mango and taking the Biblical Hebrew Lessons.

Tumblebook Library

1.) I would sort by reading level and sit with him to get an idea of what he has read and give him the option of other books available.

2.) I found working in Tumblebooks Very Difficult, as I am not a teacher or librarian who works with K-12 but with college age students. But that just made me look into deeper. If I had to recommend a STEM Ebook the first I would pick would be The Day-Glo Brothers, I found it very interesting and informative.

Lesson 1 World Book

1.) World Book Kids would be difficult to use as I work in a library for engineers and science majors. That being said, under the "Science Projects," the selecting and researching a topic could prove helpful for anyone.


2.) World Book Students.  This site maybe helpful to some of our freshmen students who are less familiar with other resources available. I liked the fact that they could find significant people, and also have a biography with it and a chance to read various newspaper articles, that fit there own personal taste.


3.)  World Book Advanced.   The tools in this section would be very helpful for students in many ways, the hear text aloud was funny to me because of was so robotic.


4.) World Book Discover.  Reference tools gives very good research material, especially for students just starting out on their own. The timeline was a useful tool as well.

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.