Lesson 7

WorldCat: Martin Luther - searched Named Person: Martin Luther; Limit Type to: Books; Subtype Limits: Juvenile and non-fiction; Rank by: Date
Got lots of results, so refined the search Named Person: NOT Martin Luther King. Got 126 results in English. Augustana College owns a copy of "Luther: Biography of a Reformer" which looks promising.. Watertown Public Library owns a copy of "Martin Luther: Father of the Reformation".

WorldCat: Graphic Novels - Searched Keywords: Classic Novels and Graphic Novels; Language: English; Limit Type to: Books. Got 1,090 results. I'd probably go with "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" published by Stone Arch Books.
Went back to advanced search and changed Keyword to Descriptor: Graphic Novels. "Gothic Classics" from Eureka Productions would be another possibility, since it includes works by Jane Austen and Edgar Allan Poe. Homer's "The Odyssey" is also available in graphic novel format.

WorldCat: My Fair Lady - searched Title: My Fair Lady; Keyword: Vocal Score. Got 102 results, then selected Scores tab, which limited it to 94 results.USD and NSU own copies. Accession Number OCLC:26429906

Lesson 6B

Ah,yes. The variously colored Fairy books. Andrew Lang is the author. I just had occasion to discuss these with a school librarian over the phone the other day. We determined that the colorful Fairy Books contained regional fairy tales, not stories about fairies per se. Not to be confused with the Daisy Meadows series of fairy books.I found violet, blue, yellow and red by searching the author's name.

Lesson 6 EbscoHost

Visual Search: I don't think I'm doing this correctly, or my computer is just too slow.Searching for South Dakota info, but I'm not able to view any results. Oh, I get it. I need to click "more" at the bottom of the right column. Not terribly user-friendly. I think that basic and advanced searches are faster. Anyway...
I found some info on Tyrannosaurus Sue. Also "Americans View Their Dust Bowl Experience" contains info from Deuel County, where my mother was born. Interesting. As with all of these databases, I need more time (and a faster computer) to work with them.

I think I will make a list, and on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, etc. I will make a point of using a specific database, preferably showing someone else how to navigate within it. Use it or lose it!

Lesson 5B

First I earched "Title List" and sorted by chronology.The College Blue Book looks interesting. I searched my alma mater, Ripon College, and found some basic information. It worked just as well do to an advanced search for those keywords, published after 2011. The Blue Book would be helpful for high school students beginning their search for colleges and universities offering specific fields of study.
The UXL Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes provides basic information. I like the PDF format better than the text format. It seems more "encyclopedic". Is that a word? Well, it is now!

Lesson 5 Gale Virtual Reference Library

The Childmark Encyclopedia of World Holidays was a good start. Then moved to the Childmark Encyclopedia of Foods and Recipes of the World. My home computer is old, so I found the search process rather cumbersome. I'm guessing that the computers at the Library would run more smoothly. The Childmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures is also helpful. It is more productive to search specific countries rather than worldwide. Results are more managable. I'll need to play with this some more to get the best use from it.

Lesson 4B

I used advanced search terms "Hurricane Sandy" and "Libraries" and got 710 results on Proquest. I found a Feb. 21, 2013 article about books donated to a school library. I searched by most recent publication date. So I went back and searched "Public Libraries". Didn't really find anything with that search. I got better results from Bing.

Lesson 4 Proquest

Les Miserables happens to be my favorite novel!  (Loved the 2012 movie too, by the way. I am now throughly enamoured of Hugh Jackman.) I had resisted watching any previous movie dramatizations of this novel because I knew they could not fully convey my vision of the story. Anyway...
In my Proquest search, Document Type and Subject limiters were key. And I did need to narrow the results by Language. Reading the novel did make me wish I could read French. Alas, I do not. So Language: English narrowed things down for me quite nicely. My search resulted in a nice selection of articles on this topic.