Lesson 5 
Proquest

1.) I found the perfect article by doing away with the movie and musical theater buttons, and clicking on the article and library criticism and came up with an article "The Temptation of the Impossible: Victor Hugo and Les Misreables", written by C. B. Kerr.


2.) I received the best results by using parenthesis "Hurricane Sandy" and truncating library and aid. One of the more interesting articles is not about aiding the community but about the devastation these libraries faced."Hurricane Sandy: The Road to Recovery". One of the more recent articles is from May 2014, entitled, " Resilient Design"; it discussed about negotiating a jumble of well meaning aid and repair efforts.

Lesson 4. SIRS RESEARCHER AND DISCOVERER

1.) I would start by showing the third grader how SIRS Discoverer works, then show him that by typing in solar system he could get 867 articles on this topic. I would then show him how to sort through his options to narrow his search down.

2.) While searching in SIRS Discoverer for both Maps and Volcanoes I found 1,000 articles on both of these subject matters.


SIRS Researcher

1.) By using SIRS Researcher teachers can get many suicide prevention tools and they can custom them to their audience; such as depression, drugs, transgender, etc. With Google customizing to your needs becomes much more difficult.

2.) The search term I would use for a civic discussion on water restrictions would be water restrictions, or water use. I found a particularly good reference ; At Issue: Water Use.  The article provides an overview of water use and Perspectives and questions.

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.