Lesson 10 - Wrap Up

Basic, Advanced & Common Core Correlations Discovery Exercise

1.  What was your biggest discovery?

• My biggest discovery was that there's more than one way to get to an answer and you just need to try different words, phrases, etc. Really look over the web page you're on to discover what links are there to help you. Don't be afraid of using Advanced Search options, like I was. I always thought it would be too hard to figure out and it isn't.

 2. How will you promote or use the resources with your patrons, colleagues or students?

• I'm going to share with the management team what a great idea it is to do this challenge. Not only is it fun, but it is a great way to learn what's available and with Jane and Julie to help you, it's not hard to do. I want to do it again next year even though I've done both just so I can keep up with what's going on. I will also keep exploring the resources for family history and share those with my cousins.

Thank you ladies for another great year.

Lesson 9 -- History and Genealogy Resources—Ancestry Library, Heritage Quest and Sanborn Maps

Advanced Challenge 1. You have heard that the Titanic had a sister ship or two and want more information, including a picture, if possible. You try AncestryLibrary's "Ship Pictures and Descriptions" collection. Report your search and your findings.

• Okay, I probably cheated on this one, but I needed a starting place so I did a Google search for Titanic sister ships and found the Olympic. After I had a name I went to Passenger Ships and Images; Browse the Collection and put in the letter "O" and then scrolled to Olympic. There were eight images for the Olympic.

 2. A student is working on a report about the dirigible, the Hindenburg, and comes to you for help. You try AncestryLibrary's Newspapers & Publications collection. What are your results?

• I started with a Newspaper search for the Hindenburg and it showed 437 articles. I then clicked on publications and it added four more for a total of 441. When I looked at some of the articles I noticed that it was also using Hindenburg as a person's name. So I edited the search and added the word dirigible and came up with 596 newspapers and 22 publications. Again, in looking a lot of the items were for names. When I narrowed it further to "dirigible Hindenburg" I came up with 7.

3. Your county is celebrating a big anniversary, and townsfolk want some historical information. In HeritageQuest, which collection do you search? What are your results?

•  One of the collections I searched was the PERSI archive under places and put in the county where a lot of my ancestors lived in the past. I got 17 hits for Spink County and the majority had something to do with what I was looking for. Some were too broad.
• I also went on Maps and saw how the county changed over the years and thought that would be interesting information to have also.
• I had a lot of trouble on this one. I was hoping to do better, but it just wasn't happening.

Lesson 8—WorldCat, CAMIO and More

Advanced Challenge 1. You want to know if it’s possible to borrow a non-fiction book about Martin Luther (NOT Martin Luther King) to use for a couple weeks with your 4th & 5th grade Sunday school class. You have nothing in your collection, so you check WorldCat. How do you conduct your search? (Try to use some of the special search features and limiters.) What title(s) would you recommend? What is the nearest owning library?

• I started my search for Martin Luther - Named Person, limited to English, then books and finally the subtype limits of juvenile and nonfiction. This gave me 891 so I knew I needed to limit things a lot more.
• I went to advanced search and wrote in Martin and Luther not King; which limited the number down to 137 books. I still wanted less and noticed some were quite old.
• I limited my date range from 2000 to 2015; which brought up 23 which was a respectable number.
• I liked the first book on my list: Martin Luther: a man who changed the world which is a Primary school book with only 26 pages. I thought this would work for the upper elementary class as a starting lesson because it could be gone through in one sitting. Plus, it would come from the Brookings Public Library so it wouldn't take long for it to arrive.  Then I chose the second book: Martin Luther: Father of the Reformation. This is a juvenile book with 112 pages so it would help supplement the first book. The closest Library is the Watertown Reg Lib.

2. Your library doesn't have many graphic novels. You think adding classics that have been made into graphic novels would be beneficial. To see what's already in libraries, you check WorldCat. Describe your search terms and limiters. Name 1 title you would add and its publisher.

•  I did a search for graphic novels and tried material type
• Then I tried genre/form and limited it by fiction
• I decided I didn't want to limit it to juvenile or a year.
• The Title I would add would be Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: The Graphic Novel by Puffin Books Publishing.
• I added this book because it has been a favorite of mine.

3. The local theater director would like to do My Fair Lady but is afraid the vocals may be too difficult for the available cast. She wonders if a vocal score is available so she can take a look at it. Describe your search terms and limiters. Give the Accession number of the item you choose (found at the bottom of the record, where it says "Accession: OCLC:").

• I searched for the Title phrase: My Fair Lady and limited it to English and Musical Score. The one I chose was

  Accession No:

  OCLC: 22601829

Advanced Challenge - CAMIO
1. A student wants to do a project on the way people dressed in Charles Dickens’ England (the Victorian Era was from 1837-1901). What results can you find in CAMIO, and how did you find them? (search term hints: “dress” “fashion” “clothing”)

• I started with a basic search of fashion and then clicked on 1873 which brought up 5 items.
• Next I searched for clothing and the date of 1858 which produced 4 items.
• Then I did dress and 1843 which produced 10 items. The woman in the wedding dress was beautiful. The dress was so intricate.

Lesson 7 -- EBooks on EbscoHost (formerly NetLibrary)

Advanced Challenge1. Try out the “Advanced Search” feature. Click “Advanced Search” under the search box. Do a search on a topic that interests you, or search “South Dakota.” Play around with options and choose one title. Report your explorations and how you think patrons or students would like this feature.

• I decided to work in the subject field first so I typed in genealogy or family history.
• Then I set the date to 2000 or later
• I then checked for which ones could be downloaded to use offline and most of the 20 could

I found some very good books that I know I will use for my own family history quest. I think this is a great tool for people. I think some people who aren't as computer knowledgeable would need some help with how to use it, (I could even use some help with the notes, etc.) but I still think it is great.

2. You and your grandmother are talking about childhood books. She recalls enjoying a series of fairy tale books. Each one was a different color. Find these books in Ebooks on Ebscohost. Report your search process, the author and the titles you found.

• This one took some thinking, I cleared everything out by doing a new search, then I went to ebooks at the top of the page, then I clicked on children young adults fiction, to narrow it down more I went and clicked on Fairy Tales and started scrolling down and found them; the Yellow Fairy Book, the Violet Fairy Book and the Red Fairy Book. The author is Andrew Lang and they were published in 1996.

Lesson 6 -- Gale Virtual Reference Library (Advanced)

1. Your civic organization is sponsoring a community event with the theme, “Spring Holidays Around the World.” The organization needs your help in finding the following: a. Spring festival traditions from a variety of countries b. Traditional spring festival foods and their recipes c. Spring festival games or pastimes Report your findings and how you found them in GVRL.

• This gave me a pause while I tried to figure out how to go about this search. I finally went to the Title list and then typed in spring festivals in the search engine. To narrow it down I went to the left side of the page and clicked on festivals and got 118. Here is what I found.
  
  • MIMOUNA FESTIVAL -Mimouna is a springtime celebration marked by Jews in Morocco and elsewhere in North Africa. It begins on the evening that Passover ends and continues into the next day. Women set tables adorned with green stalks and filled with dried fruits and nuts, fava beans, wheat, honey, sweets, milk, a fish, and a crêpe prepared after Passover ended. Families visit each other throughout the night, with greetings expressing the beginning of a year full of merit and blessing. The following day, they go outdoors, picnicking in fields or near water.
  • NOWRŪZ (lit., "new day"), the Iranian national festival that celebrates the arrival of spring. A festival of renewal, hope, and happiness, Nowrūz begins on the first day of Farvardīn, the first month of the Iranian solar calendar, at the spring equinox, and continues for twelve days. It is the most widely celebrated, the longest, and the most colorful of Iranian festivals, and though inherited from Zoroastrian Persia, it is the only festival that is not confined to a single religious group.
  • HOLĪ is a popular North Indian festival noted for its Saturnalia-like excitement celebrated each year at the full moon in the lunar month of March–April. The ceremony is not found in South India, but a similar festival in honor of the god of love, Kāma, takes place there at the same time. While there does not seem to be a direct link between the two rites, literary sources suggest that both occasions are examples of an age-old tradition of celebrating the arrival of spring.
• I decided to do another search for spring holidays by entering that title in the search box. The Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures came up in my search choices. When I saw my choices and found there was a country I'd never heard of called the Azerbaijan Republic, I decided to look at their holidays to see what they had. One of their most happy and anticipated holidays celebrated on March 21st is called Nawruz. It is celebrated throughout central Asia. Women make cookies and sweets and boys build bonfires and jump over them without getting burned. There were many others listed.
• I did another search for spring holiday games and found the Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Holidays as well as many individual populations back in the World Cultures books. The World Holidays book has food, recipes and games to go along with their holidays. I read about Poland's Holy week customs and found a recipe to make Easter Cheese.
• I also did a search for holiday food and recipes  and what that showed me was the Junior Woldmark Encyclopedia of Foods and Recipes of the World.

2. Use Advanced Search to find recently added 2012 and newer titles. Then explore a couple titles and report your findings. 

• I put in a date of after 2011 and then narrowed it to education. I found a title on Hmong's that I thought I'd explore because I wanted to see if they were the same people who have come to my home town of Huron that speak the Karen language and now I found out they aren't the same people.

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. 

Lesson 4 2015

Advanced Challenge
SIRS Discoverer
1. A third grader who reads below grade level needs articles on the solar system for a school project. How would you find appropriate materials for this student, and what are your results? (Hint: Advanced Search is useful here.)  Thanks for the hint. I went to the advanced search and put in solar system, then I marked only easy (green) and arranged it by Lexile scores. I came up with 47 results with Lexiles between 510L and 1290L, because this student reads below grade level I would probably stick with the top four that have have reading lexiles below 700L.

2. What are two ways you can use SIRS Discoverer to find maps/images of volcanoes? How many results did you get with each? The first way was to do a keyword search for volcanoes and then I clicked on the graphics tab which showed 151 graphics of volcanoes. The next search I did was for the words map and volcanoes. I got back 16 specific graphic maps for volcanoes. There were also over 200 articles in which I could also find maps. The second way was to use the subject tree search for science. Then I clicked on geography and geology. Then the subtopic of volcanoes. Through this process I found 184 graphics. What this showed me was not to just rely on one way to find information.

SIRS Issues Researcher1. A committee of teachers needs good websites about suicide prevention for teens. How do you help them using SIRS Issues Researcher? I would show them the A-List and the search engine, then after they find suicide, prevention I would have them click on the 5 websites in the left hand box so they could check out the websites. Is this a better way to search for web sites than using a search engine such as Google? Why or why not? This is a better way to search because they are vetted by educators and are safe. This is important when you're working with schools.

2. Recent drought is causing your town to consider restrictions on water use. Citizens disagree about the need for restrictions. What subjects would you search in SIRS Issues Researcher to provide information for civic discussion? This was a fun one to figure out. I went to leading issues. There I found a topic of water use which led me to a great page which had the pro/con issues and essential questions. Exactly what I was looking for. There was also an interactive USGS Groundwater Data for the Nation link. I went to South Dakota just to see what was there and you can really find a lot of information. How neat.
I think a lot of people would be amazed by how much information our libraries have available to them. The public can go in and access this information for free. There is no better bargain than our libraries.