Books on EbscoHost
Basic Discovery Exercise:
1. Do a search for a topic that interests you. Note the default search is "Find all my search terms." You may want to change the search to one of the other options. Review your findings and observations.
With the beautiful weather this week feeling like Spring is here, baseball was the topic of interest for me. Specifically I chose to search for Minnesota Twins baseball. As I typed in the search box, I noticed as you type a drop down appeared with search options. I think the search options available allowing more options to expand or narrow the search is especially beneficial. My Minneosta Twins baseball search brought up 242 options. Not all were baseball Twins...it also showed birth twins, etc. As I scrolled I noticed a book, "The Baseball Maniac's Almanac." Sounded like my kind of book so I selected it. I especially liked the "table of contests" located to the left side of the screen. By clicking on part 2 I was able to get quickly to the section giving team by team histories. After skipping to the central division I was able to find the Minnesota Twins section which included years, stadium, as well as both team and individual records. A fan such as myself was got stuck reading about the greats such as Harman Killebrew, Tony Olivia, Rod Carew, and Kirby Picket who have been leaders in the Twins franchise for many years.
2. Constitution Day is looming and several students need more material. Search EBooks on EbscoHost and recommend some appropriate titles.
Because Constitution Day celebrated the signing of the Constitution in 1787 I would recommend the following books which were included in the 37 results when searched with the "find all my search term" option; "AP U.S History," "A Dictionary of American History" or "The Illustrated Dictionary of Constitutional concepts."
3. A class is doing projects on Western history. They have exhausted the library's print collection. In EBooks on EbscoHost, click "Advanced Search." In the "Select a Field" box, choose "PB Publisher." In the search box, type "Nebraska" or "Oklahoma." Report your findings.
For this final part of this weeks challenge, I did as was instructed and entered "Nebraska" under "Advanced Search" narrowed to a "PB Publisher." I had 88 source listed to choose from. I can see that this would be a useful took when doing research and the flexible research options make it very user friendly.
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
Tuesday, March 3, 2015
Lesson 6 South Dakota Library Challenge
Gale Virtual Reference Library
1. Getting to know the titles in GVRL is similar to getting to know the titles of your library's reference collection. Click "Title List" on the upper right to view all the titles available in the collection. Click a book title of interest to you and access an article via the table of contents. Notice with the multi-volume titles, you can select which volume you look at. Discuss the title you selected and how you may use it.
I selected the area of "History" and then clicked on the "Title List." A long list of titles appeared but the one I was interested in was titled, "America Under Attack: September 11, 2001." The contents page showed each chapter and the title. I noticed at the top of the screen was options for downloading either as a PDF or a MP3. I think patrons would love that option at times when they want to be able to have it for reference or a more convenient time. I am always drawn to information on for 911 attack in hopes of making some sense of it. My cousin worked as an international banker for a company with offices in the World Trade Center. He had a speaking engagement at an college and was out of the office. He lost his job at day as the company was gone but more importantly he lost all his co-workers and was left to make sense of "why." I am always drawn to anything that can help answer that question.
2. At the top of the home page, type a search term in the search box. Search for answers to the two questions posed at the beginning of the post: zinc or The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn if you can't think of something else. Review the results, selecting an article to see what kind of information you can find. Test the "Listen" feature. Discuss your results.
I chose to pursue the answer to the first question, “What foods have zinc in them?” I entered "Zinc in the search bar and found a number of sources listed but I was most interested in the one titled, "Vitamins." At the end of article it listed a reference to "other articles linked to indexed terms" and I noticed the last one was Zinc and specifically food sources. When I went to page 298 I found information on the difference between sources that are high in zinc and sources that are fortified with zinc. It also had a quick reference illustration that included oysters, chuck roast, burgers, beef tacos, cereals, veg soup and even unsweetened chocolate as zinc sources. I listened to the article for a bit, but found it to not be for me. It is quite slow moving and I am a scanner who likes a fast pace.
3. Look at 2 or 3 other participants' blogs to see what they discovered. Comment if you like.
I did look at many of the other blogs to see what they discovered. I found only a few had completed Lesson 6. I did see that "Crazy Librarian Lady had done Lesson 6. She had also searched for Zinc but had used a different source than I had. I agreed with her that the Gale Virtual Reference Library "is a good tool for reference and everyday learning."
1. Getting to know the titles in GVRL is similar to getting to know the titles of your library's reference collection. Click "Title List" on the upper right to view all the titles available in the collection. Click a book title of interest to you and access an article via the table of contents. Notice with the multi-volume titles, you can select which volume you look at. Discuss the title you selected and how you may use it.
I selected the area of "History" and then clicked on the "Title List." A long list of titles appeared but the one I was interested in was titled, "America Under Attack: September 11, 2001." The contents page showed each chapter and the title. I noticed at the top of the screen was options for downloading either as a PDF or a MP3. I think patrons would love that option at times when they want to be able to have it for reference or a more convenient time. I am always drawn to information on for 911 attack in hopes of making some sense of it. My cousin worked as an international banker for a company with offices in the World Trade Center. He had a speaking engagement at an college and was out of the office. He lost his job at day as the company was gone but more importantly he lost all his co-workers and was left to make sense of "why." I am always drawn to anything that can help answer that question.
2. At the top of the home page, type a search term in the search box. Search for answers to the two questions posed at the beginning of the post: zinc or The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn if you can't think of something else. Review the results, selecting an article to see what kind of information you can find. Test the "Listen" feature. Discuss your results.
I chose to pursue the answer to the first question, “What foods have zinc in them?” I entered "Zinc in the search bar and found a number of sources listed but I was most interested in the one titled, "Vitamins." At the end of article it listed a reference to "other articles linked to indexed terms" and I noticed the last one was Zinc and specifically food sources. When I went to page 298 I found information on the difference between sources that are high in zinc and sources that are fortified with zinc. It also had a quick reference illustration that included oysters, chuck roast, burgers, beef tacos, cereals, veg soup and even unsweetened chocolate as zinc sources. I listened to the article for a bit, but found it to not be for me. It is quite slow moving and I am a scanner who likes a fast pace.
3. Look at 2 or 3 other participants' blogs to see what they discovered. Comment if you like.
I did look at many of the other blogs to see what they discovered. I found only a few had completed Lesson 6. I did see that "Crazy Librarian Lady had done Lesson 6. She had also searched for Zinc but had used a different source than I had. I agreed with her that the Gale Virtual Reference Library "is a good tool for reference and everyday learning."
Lesson 5-South Dakota Library Challenge
Proquest Research and Discovery Library
Basic Discovery Exercise
1. Do a basic search on something of interest to you. Report your findings and observations.
I chose to search for "Coconut Oil." After seeing 11,229 hits I opted to narrow the search for specifically "Coconut Oil Benefits." The new search showed 2541 articles. Having just purchased my first jar of "Coconut Oil" after a friend raved of its many uses, what I wanted to know is how many uses there are I hadn't yet heard of. I was able to easily scan down the list until an article from "Women's Fitness" Summer of 2014 article caught my eye. It was titled, "Join the Coconut Craze." What I really liked was how it first gave the summary so I could see if it was actually of interest and then went into the full text. As I suspected, the coconut has many uses and is now taking center stage as a super food. It explained benefits from the kitchen to the makeup bag.
1.a. See what your Challenge cohort is discovering. Choose at least one other Challenge blog, read that person's post (about this or a previous lesson), and comment on it. You may like to check each other's blogs throughout the Challenge as you learn together.
Since the beginning of the challenge, I have been checking the blogs of others also doing the challenge. Mostly because I had never worked with a blog and wanted to verify I was on the right track. One of the first ones I checked today was "Crazy Librarian Lady." Of course I was drawn to the name because that is totally my sense of humor. I loved her page design as much as her name. I was so surprised to see her comment complimenting my page. However, I was unable to figure out how to comment on hers. She is further along on the challenge than myself...and looks to be doing great.
2. Click the Publications tab at the top of the page. You will see an alphabetical list of the periodicals indexed in Proquest and the years included. Notice that this list is "Full text only." Do a search for a journal in your profession by typing a title or keyword in the search box. Report your findings and observations.
I am the IT Coordinator for our Library so I chose to search "Library Technology" in the search box. I noticed a drop down arrow allowed more specific searches by changing between; in title, title begins with, in publication summary or in subject. I first left it to the default "in title." Only 2 articles were found so I changed to the "in subject." In this case, it made no change to the search.
Basic Discovery Exercise
1. Do a basic search on something of interest to you. Report your findings and observations.
I chose to search for "Coconut Oil." After seeing 11,229 hits I opted to narrow the search for specifically "Coconut Oil Benefits." The new search showed 2541 articles. Having just purchased my first jar of "Coconut Oil" after a friend raved of its many uses, what I wanted to know is how many uses there are I hadn't yet heard of. I was able to easily scan down the list until an article from "Women's Fitness" Summer of 2014 article caught my eye. It was titled, "Join the Coconut Craze." What I really liked was how it first gave the summary so I could see if it was actually of interest and then went into the full text. As I suspected, the coconut has many uses and is now taking center stage as a super food. It explained benefits from the kitchen to the makeup bag.
1.a. See what your Challenge cohort is discovering. Choose at least one other Challenge blog, read that person's post (about this or a previous lesson), and comment on it. You may like to check each other's blogs throughout the Challenge as you learn together.
Since the beginning of the challenge, I have been checking the blogs of others also doing the challenge. Mostly because I had never worked with a blog and wanted to verify I was on the right track. One of the first ones I checked today was "Crazy Librarian Lady." Of course I was drawn to the name because that is totally my sense of humor. I loved her page design as much as her name. I was so surprised to see her comment complimenting my page. However, I was unable to figure out how to comment on hers. She is further along on the challenge than myself...and looks to be doing great.
2. Click the Publications tab at the top of the page. You will see an alphabetical list of the periodicals indexed in Proquest and the years included. Notice that this list is "Full text only." Do a search for a journal in your profession by typing a title or keyword in the search box. Report your findings and observations.
I am the IT Coordinator for our Library so I chose to search "Library Technology" in the search box. I noticed a drop down arrow allowed more specific searches by changing between; in title, title begins with, in publication summary or in subject. I first left it to the default "in title." Only 2 articles were found so I changed to the "in subject." In this case, it made no change to the search.
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