I want to comment on Learning Express Library before moving on. I used it extensively in Edgemont and to help my friend Jayni who teaches foreign sutdents learning to live in America so I am very familiar with it and have much use of it for testing. This is such and excellent and important resource for so many people I hope to be able to use it with the patrons in Gettysburg.
Now on to Proquest: I have written my answers as I have moved through these but I apologize for lack of detail on these resources. I have loved getting back into use of all the resources I used a lot in Edgemont! These are such great learning tools and I have used some I really didn't use before!
When typing in a basic search in the medical field there are thousands of results. The suggested Subjects offers different areas of focus. The options of narrowing a search were helpful to 'weed' the search topic and the bar graph is helpful. It is easy to find a source that it understandable for all age levels and abilities to understand as they spend time working through the sources.
My profession research was to look at the articles on my husband in Western Horseman Magazine but there were no listings.
I have to agree with the blogger stating that this is easier for a journal someone wants to look up for a known article and for more advanced researchers.
Gale Virtual Ref. Library:
I wanted to research Alzheimers disease but found little information other than Downs Syndrome presents a likely-hood of Alzheimers in later life. In Religion I wished to look up Mennonites and they were not listed.
I looked up health with vitamins and found many resources on uses of them, foods to eat, etc.
Teachers could use these resources in classrooms with student who learn better by listening than reading.
I am also interested in natural remedies and there was good information and bibliographical information and other sources for information.
There were technical difficulties in Berkshire Ency. for medical research.
E-books:
1. I researched alternative and herbal remedies since I don't do doctors and there were a number of books of interest, even books for natural pet care! Happy to see so much on natural menopause choices. In Smart Text the page options is useful and relevant pages option is very useful also.
2. Under Constitution Day on 9///17 there were no specific results plenty of results for books on the Constitution.
3. NE sight gives lots of results for reading. I am familiar with Univ. of NE publishers and know of many of their publications so that was not new to me. The same is true of the Univ. of OK. There are many ways to research anything and there is a lot of information.
Many of our patrons still prefer the tactile sensory feel of holding a book and interaction with the library personnel while some really prefer to read e-books!
World Cat:
Advanced search page has so many ways to search; by accession number, author, type of material, phrase, publisher, ISBN, and on and on.
I know hunger Games is popular and there were over a hundred (104) results with 5042 libraries and Alexander Mitchell as the top one. Call # was PZ7C6837 and dewey was PS3603.04558. I am familiar with KAT as I used World Cat a lot in Edgemont for inter-library loans and for cataloging new books.
I have never familiarized myself with OAI so it was a new experience. SD had 764 results. The links to any subject were useful with "access" link and to be able to view the pages of documents.
It is a white-out outside so I won't venture to the library for Archive Grid and CAMIO
Sunday, February 26, 2012
#1: World Book:
I looked up llama because I have sheep and use them for protection. It was interesting to find information for the natural habitat of these awesome guards of our sheep. School edition uses easy to read language with limited information and lots of pictures and with videos to visualize the critters.
The Student Edition has more details with great videos to give a 'real' feeling of the animals. The links are great to send students on adventures into other resources for useful information on research for reports.
World Book Advanced was like an adventure! It is hard to stay focused on the questions to be answered because there is so much to explore with the left and right links. There is a lot of basic information about the subject and the people; then one can advance to articles about various topics of interest in that country.
World Book Discover is great for teachers like my friend Jayni. She teaches foreign students English and helps them with citizenship and learning to help themselves here in America. To read an article and listen to it in their language is a help to them and then by listening to the words pronounced in English they can learn proper pronunciation more quickly. This can be a great aid to their whole family who is learning to speak English. A student of a foreign language class can pick up the language more easily. It was fun hearing the words in Spanish and French that I learned in school but I never have use of.
I have major catch-up to do so I am pulling one of those college all-nighters, so here goes!
Can't get my login right for #2 but I used this a lot when I was a librarian in Edgemont but will move on to #3 for now. I also help my friend Jayni in using it for her foreign students at the college she teaches at in Colorado.
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#3: SIRS
Online SIRS is awesome! Very useful and easy to move around in for research papers or reports in any area just by using a subject and have all the information right there with any other related newspaper, magazine articles, graphics, or website noted. There are so many options as far as reading level and learning style and interest. Teachers could easily use this for practice and challenges for students.
In Curriculum Pathfinder the Language Arts gives so much information with the websites, articles from magazines, and documentation and covers so much for use with teaching students and helping with practice in test areas. Students will be able to chose from a variety of information and from many ways it is presented.
Discover is very teacher friendly with the ability to use the three graphic organizer charts with varying degrees of difficulty. Suggested subjects help explore and define areas and focus more individually with students working at their own pace or ability. There is a lot of information available on countries and the maps would be useful for any study on any level.
Researcher has so many resources but the ability to narrow a search was useful since there are too many options! The over view of a topic is useful in this decision making process, as well as the pro and con section to see both sides of an issue. This would be useful to teachers for practice in many areas or for assignments for their students.
I looked up llama because I have sheep and use them for protection. It was interesting to find information for the natural habitat of these awesome guards of our sheep. School edition uses easy to read language with limited information and lots of pictures and with videos to visualize the critters.
The Student Edition has more details with great videos to give a 'real' feeling of the animals. The links are great to send students on adventures into other resources for useful information on research for reports.
World Book Advanced was like an adventure! It is hard to stay focused on the questions to be answered because there is so much to explore with the left and right links. There is a lot of basic information about the subject and the people; then one can advance to articles about various topics of interest in that country.
World Book Discover is great for teachers like my friend Jayni. She teaches foreign students English and helps them with citizenship and learning to help themselves here in America. To read an article and listen to it in their language is a help to them and then by listening to the words pronounced in English they can learn proper pronunciation more quickly. This can be a great aid to their whole family who is learning to speak English. A student of a foreign language class can pick up the language more easily. It was fun hearing the words in Spanish and French that I learned in school but I never have use of.
I have major catch-up to do so I am pulling one of those college all-nighters, so here goes!
Can't get my login right for #2 but I used this a lot when I was a librarian in Edgemont but will move on to #3 for now. I also help my friend Jayni in using it for her foreign students at the college she teaches at in Colorado.
.
#3: SIRS
Online SIRS is awesome! Very useful and easy to move around in for research papers or reports in any area just by using a subject and have all the information right there with any other related newspaper, magazine articles, graphics, or website noted. There are so many options as far as reading level and learning style and interest. Teachers could easily use this for practice and challenges for students.
In Curriculum Pathfinder the Language Arts gives so much information with the websites, articles from magazines, and documentation and covers so much for use with teaching students and helping with practice in test areas. Students will be able to chose from a variety of information and from many ways it is presented.
Discover is very teacher friendly with the ability to use the three graphic organizer charts with varying degrees of difficulty. Suggested subjects help explore and define areas and focus more individually with students working at their own pace or ability. There is a lot of information available on countries and the maps would be useful for any study on any level.
Researcher has so many resources but the ability to narrow a search was useful since there are too many options! The over view of a topic is useful in this decision making process, as well as the pro and con section to see both sides of an issue. This would be useful to teachers for practice in many areas or for assignments for their students.
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