1. The first task is to find something of interest found on Ebsco Host(formerly net library e-books. Our book fair is going to be in March and the theme is Fiesta so I'm looking for references and ideas. One of the resources that I chose was titled Mexico by Shirley M. Gray. This book has colored pictures and info about the Spanish-Mexican Culture. I was really surprised about the colored picture and was not anticipating that these e-books would have them. There is a map on Mexico that easily read on page 5 of the book. A picture of the traffic in Mexico City and info of the rural life in Mexico. This book was very informative.
2. Finding info for Constitution Day outcome was 21 resources to choose from. I would ask the patron to be more specific, like which title would work for the research needed. Some of the titles that were shown: AP US History, The Criminal Law Handbook, The Complete Idiot's Guide to the American Presidents and Econo Guide '00 London. This topic is too broad.
3. The next task was to find info on Western History in the Advanced Search. We were to select PB publisher in the drop down box by the select a field option and type one of the states. I choose Nebraska and found 56 results. Turtle Lung's Granddaughter was the first title listed. What I found was that all these books was published by the University of Nebraska. Again, this is a great place to share with everyone taking history class.
I intend on writing an article for our local paper about these great websites and offer a class for patrons to visit the library and take a look at these unique data bases that were are researching for this class. This will be accomplished when I finish this class.
Great finds in Ebooks on Ebsco. You found a really useful sounding book for your upcoming book fair. And your observations for the publisher search are spot on. It is great that you plan to write an article for the newspaper and provide training! Thanks for the post, Julie
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