Lesson 5 2015

ProQuest

1. I decided to try starting with the Literature Subject heading on the main page. Then I narrowed it down to "literary criticism of Victor Hugo’s novel, Les Miserables" which gave me 421 results. I then went to the right sidebar under Subject and chose "Literary Criticism" which narrowed it down to 41 results. In looking through them, not all of them would apply to the patron, but it narrows it down to a managable number to preview. All of them are either about the novel or the man.


2. I started with searching for "hurricane Sandy" and added libraries. Then I went into the subject section on the right and clicked include libraries and that narrowed it down to 12. Then I put libraries in quotes. Next I did just the words libraries, communities, hurricane sandy. I got some different documents/publications each time.

This was a nice article that talked about how libraries aided their communities.

ALA Council Recognizes the Contributions of Libraries During Emergencies.
Targeted News Service [Washington, D.C] 23 July 2013.

When Superstorm Sandy arrived in the Northeast in October 2012 and Hurricane Irene in 2011, communities throughout New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Vermont were severely affected, experiencing severe flooding, destruction of property and long term disruption of Internet access and electrical power. Many residents of these areas were isolated without access to electrical power, Internet access, heat or important information about storm relief and recovery efforts.
During those events, many libraries, even if in areas affected by the storm, were able to serve as gathering centers for their community, providing information, a warm location, a place to recharge cell phones and access to Wi-Fi and Internet. In addition, these libraries increased their efforts to serve their communities by extending hours, increasing staff presence, scheduling special programs, providing resources to shelters and even by simply adding multiple power strips for recharging purposes.
Library support staff such as maintenance and custodial workers also responded to the needs of their community in an emergency situation, by ensuring that generators had fuel, ensuring safety in buildings that were affected, and working overtime to ensure that facilities could be opened as soon as possible after the storms.
These libraries clearly demonstrated that a library serves as the center of the community and can go beyond traditional roles to meet the immediate needs of the residents of a community.

November 5, 2012 - Congressional Documents and Publications

IN BRIDGEWATER : Lance's mobile office will take place from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Tuesday, November 6, 2012 at the at the Bridgewater Library (part of the Somerset County library system) located at 1 Vogt Drive. The Library is serving as the town's warming and charging center.


Pallone Announces Federal Grant to Improve Cultural Institutions Damaged by Hurricane Sandy.
Congressional Documents and Publications (November 29, 2012)

In addition, many humanities organizations, like libraries, served as shelters, emergency supply distribution centers and charging stations during the storm. The funding may also go to these organizations to defray hurricane-related costs.

I thought these three matched the question the closest.