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!!!