Lesson 10 Wrap Up
1. I had never been in CAMIO and thought it was a great place. It will be a place that I will suggest to the teachers because they now work art into their regular schedule. I just enjoyed the art work and looking at different things in there. I used many more sites than I had before this class and they were all interesting. I compared many of the sites with the same words and found that useful in deciding which sites that I will go to first. I could have spent much more time each week but with it getting near the end of the year I had too many other things to do. I tried not too spend too much time each week. It was interesting becaue I was also using the sites for my 6th grade classes and most of the time I had to do the lesson for my 6th graders before this lesson. I usually found many more things I could have used which will be good for next year. I also learned that I can spend much more time getting around these sites and learn something everytime I go there.
2. I have already passed many sites on to the teachers. I know they get busy and forget to look in these places so I just need to remind them more often to use the databases. They are a wonderful service that is provided for our library. I do go thourgh the databases with many of the jr. high and high school students. We always look at them before they start research papers, speech, and this year we used Learning Express Library with the 7th grade study class. I have been pushing the use of these data bases for many years but I know that they are still very underused.
Monday, March 25, 2013
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Lesson 9: History and Genealogy Resources:
1. I could not come up with any information abut me but I put in my mother and came up with her whole family. Kind of a shock to see it all right there. Because I just do not have time this week, my husband is in the hospital, I am going to just do bare bones. If I had time I would look them all up and go further back but not this week. It will happen another time.
2. I put in my Dad's mother and found 90 Katherine Munsch's. I wonder how many more I would have found if I had put it in as Catherine. I did find her listed in Walworth County, SD and her death date is correct. I didn't remember her birth date and would have had to look that up at home. 1892 was her birthdate and that would be right because my dad was born in 1921. I noticed a lot of the listings had husbands but her's did not.
3. There were 10 picture catagories. The most pictures found in the Yearbook catagory. I went back again and put in my maiden name but still got no hits, which surprised me since I had gone to college in South Dakota.
The next thing I looked at was All Stories, Memories and Histories. Here things were again divided into may more catagories. When I got into this it gave the person that did this story and then where they were from and since we were in the South Dakota location they had to have some association with South Dakota. I counted 12 more subdivisions here alone.
4. I put in Alcester and did a search but was not very lucky. I found 5 articles but in looking at them really did not find anything about Alcester. The first article was by a person from Kentucky and I could not find any relationship. The last article was by a person that lived in this southeastern area. It is interesting to look at what people wrote and how these documents have passed knowledge down to us.
5. I did not have very good luck here. Alcester was not listed and so I tried Beresford and Eureka. I am not familiar enough with either that I knew what buildings to look for. I also found those maps very hard to read and when I zoomed in the I lost so much. This would take a lot of patience to learn how to get around in these.
I did learn that not every community in South Dakota is listed in these maps.
1. I could not come up with any information abut me but I put in my mother and came up with her whole family. Kind of a shock to see it all right there. Because I just do not have time this week, my husband is in the hospital, I am going to just do bare bones. If I had time I would look them all up and go further back but not this week. It will happen another time.
2. I put in my Dad's mother and found 90 Katherine Munsch's. I wonder how many more I would have found if I had put it in as Catherine. I did find her listed in Walworth County, SD and her death date is correct. I didn't remember her birth date and would have had to look that up at home. 1892 was her birthdate and that would be right because my dad was born in 1921. I noticed a lot of the listings had husbands but her's did not.
3. There were 10 picture catagories. The most pictures found in the Yearbook catagory. I went back again and put in my maiden name but still got no hits, which surprised me since I had gone to college in South Dakota.
The next thing I looked at was All Stories, Memories and Histories. Here things were again divided into may more catagories. When I got into this it gave the person that did this story and then where they were from and since we were in the South Dakota location they had to have some association with South Dakota. I counted 12 more subdivisions here alone.
4. I put in Alcester and did a search but was not very lucky. I found 5 articles but in looking at them really did not find anything about Alcester. The first article was by a person from Kentucky and I could not find any relationship. The last article was by a person that lived in this southeastern area. It is interesting to look at what people wrote and how these documents have passed knowledge down to us.
5. I did not have very good luck here. Alcester was not listed and so I tried Beresford and Eureka. I am not familiar enough with either that I knew what buildings to look for. I also found those maps very hard to read and when I zoomed in the I lost so much. This would take a lot of patience to learn how to get around in these.
I did learn that not every community in South Dakota is listed in these maps.
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Lesson 8 ArchiveGrid and Camio
ArchiveGrid
1. I learned that Sitting Bull's birthdate is not sure. A ? is used with the date.
He was also known as Tataanka lyotake or Tatanka and that he was greatly opposed on several occasions.
He was in the Battle of the Little Bighorn and he greatly opposted white man. After the Little Bighorn he moved his tribe to Canada.
After he surrendered he was in Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show.
He was finally killed when he refused to abondon the ritual Ghost Dance which had been outlawed.
Information about Sitting Bull can be obtained from Cornell University Library and it give a complete call number and tells me about the collection from which the information comes.
2. Because I like to compare all of these databases I put in Johannes Kepler again. I was pleased to come up with 23 articles. Upon looking at them a lot of them were letters and manuscripts that Kepler had with other scientists.
The articles were housed in many different places.
Pierpont Morgan Library
Smithsonian Institution
Harvard University
Getty Rsearch Institute had a videorecording (14 min)
Huntington Library
University of Nevada, Reno the article took me to their homepage
Princeton University also got their homepage.
It seems like you would really have to be doing an indepth study of the subject matter to use this source because you have to contact the place that houses the material and request the document from them. With it not offering a full text it makes it more difficult than some of the other sources.
Camio
1. There were 35 articles shown. Some were pictures of Paul Revere done by other artists, but there were a lot of his silversmith objects. Much of the collection is in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. I did find one painting "The Boston Massacre" that listed Paul Revere as the artist. There was also one peice of the silversmit found in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. When I clicked on the object the photo was great. It Showed so much detail in this very beautiful peice. As you went down the entry it listed who had donated the object and also the collection that it is found in. There are many lovely peices.
2. This was an interesting grouping. There were many kinds of mediums used. I found sculputre, Costume and Jewelry, Textiles, Photos, Prints and many paintings. Some of the paintings has artists listed but many times it just said Sioux. Some were listed as books which was also interesting. The major places that held the items were the Smithsonian, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and the Detroit Institute of Arts. There were a few peices in other museums also. They were very interesting peices.
3. I put in Grandma Moses just to see what would come up. I got one entry and found her name. Then I tried it again with her name. I got the same picture again. It is found in the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. There was only one thing avaiilable. I thought there might have been more, so it was interesting.
4. We no longer have art taught in our schools so it could be a good resource if classroom teachers want to teach about artists without having a lot of book available.
5. I put in Van Gogh this time and came up with 48 works. It was fun to play around moving things. I liked the Zoom in and Out. It was interesting to watch the paint strokes and how alike they were in some of the pictures. Seeing things up that close was a nice experienc. It would be a nice way again for a teacher to set up some lessons showing these paintings in a slideshow or to really look at them up close. I could see this being used as a program for a service club. Bring in the members, open the computers and let them go on a tour of an artist. There are just so many things available in these databases that people do not know about. I had never been to this database either and could really spend a lot of time here.
ArchiveGrid
1. I learned that Sitting Bull's birthdate is not sure. A ? is used with the date.
He was also known as Tataanka lyotake or Tatanka and that he was greatly opposed on several occasions.
He was in the Battle of the Little Bighorn and he greatly opposted white man. After the Little Bighorn he moved his tribe to Canada.
After he surrendered he was in Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show.
He was finally killed when he refused to abondon the ritual Ghost Dance which had been outlawed.
Information about Sitting Bull can be obtained from Cornell University Library and it give a complete call number and tells me about the collection from which the information comes.
2. Because I like to compare all of these databases I put in Johannes Kepler again. I was pleased to come up with 23 articles. Upon looking at them a lot of them were letters and manuscripts that Kepler had with other scientists.
The articles were housed in many different places.
Pierpont Morgan Library
Smithsonian Institution
Harvard University
Getty Rsearch Institute had a videorecording (14 min)
Huntington Library
University of Nevada, Reno the article took me to their homepage
Princeton University also got their homepage.
It seems like you would really have to be doing an indepth study of the subject matter to use this source because you have to contact the place that houses the material and request the document from them. With it not offering a full text it makes it more difficult than some of the other sources.
Camio
1. There were 35 articles shown. Some were pictures of Paul Revere done by other artists, but there were a lot of his silversmith objects. Much of the collection is in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. I did find one painting "The Boston Massacre" that listed Paul Revere as the artist. There was also one peice of the silversmit found in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. When I clicked on the object the photo was great. It Showed so much detail in this very beautiful peice. As you went down the entry it listed who had donated the object and also the collection that it is found in. There are many lovely peices.
2. This was an interesting grouping. There were many kinds of mediums used. I found sculputre, Costume and Jewelry, Textiles, Photos, Prints and many paintings. Some of the paintings has artists listed but many times it just said Sioux. Some were listed as books which was also interesting. The major places that held the items were the Smithsonian, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and the Detroit Institute of Arts. There were a few peices in other museums also. They were very interesting peices.
3. I put in Grandma Moses just to see what would come up. I got one entry and found her name. Then I tried it again with her name. I got the same picture again. It is found in the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. There was only one thing avaiilable. I thought there might have been more, so it was interesting.
4. We no longer have art taught in our schools so it could be a good resource if classroom teachers want to teach about artists without having a lot of book available.
5. I put in Van Gogh this time and came up with 48 works. It was fun to play around moving things. I liked the Zoom in and Out. It was interesting to watch the paint strokes and how alike they were in some of the pictures. Seeing things up that close was a nice experienc. It would be a nice way again for a teacher to set up some lessons showing these paintings in a slideshow or to really look at them up close. I could see this being used as a program for a service club. Bring in the members, open the computers and let them go on a tour of an artist. There are just so many things available in these databases that people do not know about. I had never been to this database either and could really spend a lot of time here.
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Lesson 7: Exercise part 1
1. This advanced search screen is the one I always use. It has such a great variety of ways of searching. I usually use the ISBN number when I catalogue new books. I just have to scan that number in and it pops right up. I have never noticed the musical composition one but I have never looked for this type of material.
2. I put in Green Eggs and Ham and got 147 results. 124 of these were in English. I clicked in and the South Dakota libraries were listed first and Alexander Mitchell Library was the very first on the list.
3. Call number is : LC PZ8.3 G276; PS2523.E2 Dewey: E
There were 4,477 search results when I clicked on Dr. Seuss
On subjects:
Food Preferences: 40
Children's stories: 85,467
Readers: 216,477
Vocabulary 51,787
The Citation was given so if you had to cite the book this would be useful to a student.
You can get all the information to catalogue the book in your own library.
It gave a Vendor so if you need to buy it you can contact them.
It gave a physical discription of the book, so you know it's size.
Discovery Exercise part 2
When I put in South Dakota I came up with 827 results. I went to an article intitled Sweet Clover in Great Plains Farming. It told me that it had 54 pages in the article and it told me that it was free to search and download.
Next I changed the database to MEDLINE and put in cancer. I got 1,278,533 results. I just chose the 3rd article down and went into Fruit and Vegetable Intake. This told me that the article was from a journal and gave me a http:// address. I clicked in and there was a nice abstract, which if you just needed a little more information would have worked great. I did click into the full text article and then you needed a password to go further. From just using the World Cat index you could get just enough information to use as a source if you needed more sources than what you had on hand.
I thought this was easy to use and get around in. I have used this source to order books and catalogue both so it was not a new thing for me. However, I have never changed any of the setting so it was a good experience to get in and do some of that.
From looking at some of the other blogs I found people had some of the same observations that I had found. Someone else found the musical composition interesting.
1. This advanced search screen is the one I always use. It has such a great variety of ways of searching. I usually use the ISBN number when I catalogue new books. I just have to scan that number in and it pops right up. I have never noticed the musical composition one but I have never looked for this type of material.
2. I put in Green Eggs and Ham and got 147 results. 124 of these were in English. I clicked in and the South Dakota libraries were listed first and Alexander Mitchell Library was the very first on the list.
3. Call number is : LC PZ8.3 G276; PS2523.E2 Dewey: E
There were 4,477 search results when I clicked on Dr. Seuss
On subjects:
Food Preferences: 40
Children's stories: 85,467
Readers: 216,477
Vocabulary 51,787
The Citation was given so if you had to cite the book this would be useful to a student.
You can get all the information to catalogue the book in your own library.
It gave a Vendor so if you need to buy it you can contact them.
It gave a physical discription of the book, so you know it's size.
Discovery Exercise part 2
When I put in South Dakota I came up with 827 results. I went to an article intitled Sweet Clover in Great Plains Farming. It told me that it had 54 pages in the article and it told me that it was free to search and download.
Next I changed the database to MEDLINE and put in cancer. I got 1,278,533 results. I just chose the 3rd article down and went into Fruit and Vegetable Intake. This told me that the article was from a journal and gave me a http:// address. I clicked in and there was a nice abstract, which if you just needed a little more information would have worked great. I did click into the full text article and then you needed a password to go further. From just using the World Cat index you could get just enough information to use as a source if you needed more sources than what you had on hand.
I thought this was easy to use and get around in. I have used this source to order books and catalogue both so it was not a new thing for me. However, I have never changed any of the setting so it was a good experience to get in and do some of that.
From looking at some of the other blogs I found people had some of the same observations that I had found. Someone else found the musical composition interesting.
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Lesson 6
1. Since this was another form of e-books I put in the same words we used last week to see how this would compare. When I put in zinc I got 73 matches and found some of the same books I had last week. I also tried Johannes Kepler and there were 2 books brought up. I clicked into them and there were 3 references given and the pages were shown on the first click in. There was definatly more information in the Gale books last week. I liked that listing of the books in the Gale last week too. I went into Search Databases and this did help limit to certain areas.
I used the word Mammals and got 59 results for this. This was interesting because it gave me a lot of books to choose from. After I clicked into the book there was a list of tools with lots of different options on it which was a nice feature. I scrolled through the 59 books listed and found a lot of travel books that mentioned mammals and just a great variety of different kinds of books.
2. I had a hard time with this one. I looked at the 21 result that came up when I put in Constitution Day. I looked at those books but there was not anything directly related to this term. Any time the word Constitution was in bold print the word day was a few sentences away. I spent over an hour in here trying to find something and did not come up with anything. I went to Gale and had about the same results. I finally went to World Book and found just a short description of the term. I would have a hard time filling this request. Today, In reading some of the other blogs I may have been looking for the wrong thing. Maybe I needed to just find things about the constitution that students could use in reports that were given on this day. I went back and looked and when I put in Constitution I came up with 174 hits. The first book Representing Popular Sovereignty had a lot of chapters that looked like they could give a student good information that they need. There was another book called The Constitution of the Untied States of America, which also looked like it had good information.
3. I found 56 results when I put in Nebraska. If this is a college class there is a lot of interesting information on Indian Policy in the book Documents of United States Indian Policy. It has a good timeline of the different agreements with the Indian nations. I also put in Oklahoma and it was good to compare the two entries. I think I liked the Oklahoma entry better for a Project on Western history. I think either would be very useful. I found a book on the Rapid City, Indian Schools which looked like a very interesting book.
In looking back at all the lessons that we have done I would not rate this as my favorite site. This could be because I work with younger children and this would not be a good site for them. This is definatly upper high school or college age students that would find this useful. I just found Gale to be easier to use. I am enjoying these lessons because they get me into things I have never been into very much before and lets me decide which ones would be useful to me.
1. Since this was another form of e-books I put in the same words we used last week to see how this would compare. When I put in zinc I got 73 matches and found some of the same books I had last week. I also tried Johannes Kepler and there were 2 books brought up. I clicked into them and there were 3 references given and the pages were shown on the first click in. There was definatly more information in the Gale books last week. I liked that listing of the books in the Gale last week too. I went into Search Databases and this did help limit to certain areas.
I used the word Mammals and got 59 results for this. This was interesting because it gave me a lot of books to choose from. After I clicked into the book there was a list of tools with lots of different options on it which was a nice feature. I scrolled through the 59 books listed and found a lot of travel books that mentioned mammals and just a great variety of different kinds of books.
2. I had a hard time with this one. I looked at the 21 result that came up when I put in Constitution Day. I looked at those books but there was not anything directly related to this term. Any time the word Constitution was in bold print the word day was a few sentences away. I spent over an hour in here trying to find something and did not come up with anything. I went to Gale and had about the same results. I finally went to World Book and found just a short description of the term. I would have a hard time filling this request. Today, In reading some of the other blogs I may have been looking for the wrong thing. Maybe I needed to just find things about the constitution that students could use in reports that were given on this day. I went back and looked and when I put in Constitution I came up with 174 hits. The first book Representing Popular Sovereignty had a lot of chapters that looked like they could give a student good information that they need. There was another book called The Constitution of the Untied States of America, which also looked like it had good information.
3. I found 56 results when I put in Nebraska. If this is a college class there is a lot of interesting information on Indian Policy in the book Documents of United States Indian Policy. It has a good timeline of the different agreements with the Indian nations. I also put in Oklahoma and it was good to compare the two entries. I think I liked the Oklahoma entry better for a Project on Western history. I think either would be very useful. I found a book on the Rapid City, Indian Schools which looked like a very interesting book.
In looking back at all the lessons that we have done I would not rate this as my favorite site. This could be because I work with younger children and this would not be a good site for them. This is definatly upper high school or college age students that would find this useful. I just found Gale to be easier to use. I am enjoying these lessons because they get me into things I have never been into very much before and lets me decide which ones would be useful to me.
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Lesson 5 Gale Virtual Reference Library
1. Oh, my goodness. I have never really been in here and did I find a lot of useful stuff. I need to run off that title page so that I can keep that at the desk and use this site more. I can't afford to buy a lot of these kind of books because of the expense.
One of the first titles that caught my eye was "Bowling, Betniks and Bell-Bottoms. Last year I had a girl do a report on some fashion things and we had a hard time finding a print source for her. This would have been perfect. I had a great time in this source. I looked at Hats and found lots of fun stuff about hats.
Then I have a teacher starting 7th grade scientists reports. He was looking for information on Johannes Kepler. I have purchased a lot of books on Scientists because he does this project each year, but I did not have anything on this person. I put it into the search bar and came up with 64 results and went down and showed him where this site was tonight. This way the student will have a book source. I told him he was going to have to help the student because a lot of it is above what a 7th grader may understand but it could be useful. I found the number of words in an article helpful for knowing how long the article might be.
Then as I went down the list I saw the title Scholarships, Fellowships and Loans so I need to get that to the guidence person but I didn't see her today. I did notice that this was a 2012 date so the things will be current. I did go into the site and browse around so it would be a good place to send students looking for additional funding for school.
The one thing I did notice was that a lot of the books listed were not newer editions so a person would have to judge what kind of information was needed and what kind of a date you are looking at.
Another book that I know I can use is the Supreme Court Drama: Cases that Changed America. I have an English teacher that has seniors do research papers on court cases each year so this will be a place I can send those students.
Another title that caught my eye was Jr. Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Culture. We have geography classes do reports on countries and this would be another good source for them. There is also a World Mark Encyclopeida of States and I have a 4th grade teacher that does states so if they needed extra material they could go to this site. It might be a bit difficult for 4th graders.
2. I kind of already did this question with Johannes Kepler but I will do another search and see what I can find. Oh, I did hats too and that was fun.
I found 714 results for Zink. Of course there were many chemical articles as well as food and wellness articles. I like the health items because these are things people often look for and the books get outdated so quickly.
I went down to ADHD Diet and clicked into the article. I turned on the listen and liked that the words were highlighted as the reading was done. This could be very helpful for a student using the listening feature. I thought the voice was pleasant to listen to.
Just to try I went to the Advanced Challenge question and put in Spring Holidays and found the first page of references were mostly from the Junior. Worlmark Encycolpeida of World Cultures. I guess just looking at titles of books this is where I would think the answers might be at.
3.Tonight I looked at a lot of other blogs. I comments on some of them and that was fun. I found another person that liked the Bowlers, Betniks and Bell-Bottoms book.
1. Oh, my goodness. I have never really been in here and did I find a lot of useful stuff. I need to run off that title page so that I can keep that at the desk and use this site more. I can't afford to buy a lot of these kind of books because of the expense.
One of the first titles that caught my eye was "Bowling, Betniks and Bell-Bottoms. Last year I had a girl do a report on some fashion things and we had a hard time finding a print source for her. This would have been perfect. I had a great time in this source. I looked at Hats and found lots of fun stuff about hats.
Then I have a teacher starting 7th grade scientists reports. He was looking for information on Johannes Kepler. I have purchased a lot of books on Scientists because he does this project each year, but I did not have anything on this person. I put it into the search bar and came up with 64 results and went down and showed him where this site was tonight. This way the student will have a book source. I told him he was going to have to help the student because a lot of it is above what a 7th grader may understand but it could be useful. I found the number of words in an article helpful for knowing how long the article might be.
Then as I went down the list I saw the title Scholarships, Fellowships and Loans so I need to get that to the guidence person but I didn't see her today. I did notice that this was a 2012 date so the things will be current. I did go into the site and browse around so it would be a good place to send students looking for additional funding for school.
The one thing I did notice was that a lot of the books listed were not newer editions so a person would have to judge what kind of information was needed and what kind of a date you are looking at.
Another book that I know I can use is the Supreme Court Drama: Cases that Changed America. I have an English teacher that has seniors do research papers on court cases each year so this will be a place I can send those students.
Another title that caught my eye was Jr. Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Culture. We have geography classes do reports on countries and this would be another good source for them. There is also a World Mark Encyclopeida of States and I have a 4th grade teacher that does states so if they needed extra material they could go to this site. It might be a bit difficult for 4th graders.
2. I kind of already did this question with Johannes Kepler but I will do another search and see what I can find. Oh, I did hats too and that was fun.
I found 714 results for Zink. Of course there were many chemical articles as well as food and wellness articles. I like the health items because these are things people often look for and the books get outdated so quickly.
I went down to ADHD Diet and clicked into the article. I turned on the listen and liked that the words were highlighted as the reading was done. This could be very helpful for a student using the listening feature. I thought the voice was pleasant to listen to.
Just to try I went to the Advanced Challenge question and put in Spring Holidays and found the first page of references were mostly from the Junior. Worlmark Encycolpeida of World Cultures. I guess just looking at titles of books this is where I would think the answers might be at.
3.Tonight I looked at a lot of other blogs. I comments on some of them and that was fun. I found another person that liked the Bowlers, Betniks and Bell-Bottoms book.
Sunday, February 10, 2013
Lesson 4 Proquest
1. I went into distracted driving because I had looked at that yesterday in Sirs. I like to compare the data bases to see which one I would recommend in various situations.
I found more articles in Proquest than I had in the Sirs. I clicked on the full text but then found when I get into the articles I still need to click on the full text, which I would think would come up since I had already indicated that I would like full text. Again there is so much information and so many ways to search.
I went to the right side of the screen and took a look at the different kinds of sources. I was interested to see where some of the information was coming from in the tabs I was not familiar with. The Reports tab contained a lot of publications from Congressional Documents and Publications. In the Other Sources a lot of those articles came from National Public Radio. In the Trade Journals group I found such things as School Library Journal and Combat Edge, a military publication. Again which direction you send a patron depends a lot on the age of the patron and the exact information they are looking for. A jr. high student may want just magazines because they would be familiar with the magazines they find there. On the other hand a college student would be looking for more spicific things and would search in the journals or some of the other sources available there.
For some reason I do not like getting around in Proquest as well as Sirs. Maybe because I feel most of the students I work with, because they are younger, would do better in SIRS.
1a. I went into my of the other blogs and found I was doing the same kind of thing that other people were so I felt comfortable with that. At least I feel that I am doing this class like I should. It was comforting. It is very interesting to see what people are going into and doing with the lesson. Before I started my tech person said I should look at what other people are doing so that I knew what to do. Some weeks I don't have time to do this but when I have time I have been looking.
2 There were 4406 publications. That is a lot of publications.!!
I went into the publication Aborigional Nurse just to see what was there. It gives all the dates of magazines which is interesting and then tells you how many articles are in the issue that you select. In that issure there were 11 articles and from what I could see of the articles they were related to a very small audience but it is great that it is there for people that need it. I thought it was very interesting.
Next I put in Library Journal and got 6 hits. One of the journals that came up was Pakistan Journal of Library Information and Science. I found that the items there start in 2008 to the present. I clicked into the magazine and found that there were 18 items in the most recent publication (2012). I picked an article intitled "Reading needs, facilities and problems of the visually impared people. " It addressed the fact that all people need to learn to read It talked about a recent study that was done with visually impared people. I found it to be a very interesting article.
This database certainly provieds a weath of information and since it is done by scholarly well documented research it is such a good source for older students to use. I feel the format and set up is definatly geared to older high school or college students. People that know just what kind of journal they need to get information from are certainly ahead going to this data base and putting in the nameof the journal.
I had not spent as much time in the data base so it was a good experience for me.
I was trying to beat the weather this week!!!
1. I went into distracted driving because I had looked at that yesterday in Sirs. I like to compare the data bases to see which one I would recommend in various situations.
I found more articles in Proquest than I had in the Sirs. I clicked on the full text but then found when I get into the articles I still need to click on the full text, which I would think would come up since I had already indicated that I would like full text. Again there is so much information and so many ways to search.
I went to the right side of the screen and took a look at the different kinds of sources. I was interested to see where some of the information was coming from in the tabs I was not familiar with. The Reports tab contained a lot of publications from Congressional Documents and Publications. In the Other Sources a lot of those articles came from National Public Radio. In the Trade Journals group I found such things as School Library Journal and Combat Edge, a military publication. Again which direction you send a patron depends a lot on the age of the patron and the exact information they are looking for. A jr. high student may want just magazines because they would be familiar with the magazines they find there. On the other hand a college student would be looking for more spicific things and would search in the journals or some of the other sources available there.
For some reason I do not like getting around in Proquest as well as Sirs. Maybe because I feel most of the students I work with, because they are younger, would do better in SIRS.
1a. I went into my of the other blogs and found I was doing the same kind of thing that other people were so I felt comfortable with that. At least I feel that I am doing this class like I should. It was comforting. It is very interesting to see what people are going into and doing with the lesson. Before I started my tech person said I should look at what other people are doing so that I knew what to do. Some weeks I don't have time to do this but when I have time I have been looking.
2 There were 4406 publications. That is a lot of publications.!!
I went into the publication Aborigional Nurse just to see what was there. It gives all the dates of magazines which is interesting and then tells you how many articles are in the issue that you select. In that issure there were 11 articles and from what I could see of the articles they were related to a very small audience but it is great that it is there for people that need it. I thought it was very interesting.
Next I put in Library Journal and got 6 hits. One of the journals that came up was Pakistan Journal of Library Information and Science. I found that the items there start in 2008 to the present. I clicked into the magazine and found that there were 18 items in the most recent publication (2012). I picked an article intitled "Reading needs, facilities and problems of the visually impared people. " It addressed the fact that all people need to learn to read It talked about a recent study that was done with visually impared people. I found it to be a very interesting article.
This database certainly provieds a weath of information and since it is done by scholarly well documented research it is such a good source for older students to use. I feel the format and set up is definatly geared to older high school or college students. People that know just what kind of journal they need to get information from are certainly ahead going to this data base and putting in the nameof the journal.
I had not spent as much time in the data base so it was a good experience for me.
I was trying to beat the weather this week!!!
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