Monday, March 19, 2012

Lesson 6 - eBooks on EBSCOhost
    The first topic I searched was "kite-making".  It was amusing to see that "Complete Idiot's Guide to Bird Watching"  and "Romantic Vacations in San Francisco" came up.  When I put in just "kites", I did get some better references including "Crafts to Make in Spring" by Kathy Ross.
    When searching for titles for Constitution Day, I ended up scrolling through quite a few books.  The ones I thought that looked to be the most helpful were:  AP U.S. History by Stephen Armstrong, Illustrated Dictionary of Constitutional Concepts by Robert Madder, Handbook of Human Rights Law by M.T. W. Arnheim, American Congress: The Building of Democracy by Julian E. Zelzer, Companion to U.S. Constitution and Its Amendments by John Vice, and Constitutional Politics in Canada and U.S. by Stephen Newman.  I especially liked the prompt on the left hand side called "Find Similar Results". 
   For the third exercise, I chose Nebraska for the PB Publisher.  All the books found were published by the University of Nebraska Press.  There were several books with reference to Native Americans and Lewis and Clark.   I would start with True West: Authenticity and the American West - edited by William Handley to learn more about Western History.   It was enlightening to see that if you needed regional information, there were regional publishers available on line.            

1 comment:

  1. Great report, Marilyn! I agree that the "Find Similar Results" is very helpful. We think this database helps expand public libraries' non-fiction holdings. Thanks for your comments!

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