LESSON 3

PROQUEST

• I searched for "History of Ballet" and found 291 full text documents, found under Suggested Topics 12 more topics to search for, you can sort the results (most recent or most relevant), you can have article e-mailed to yourself, you can print it, indexing is provided, you can even translate article into a different language.
• I searched for "Journal of Library Science" and came up with "Journal of Education for Library and Information Science" and found out that it contains full text articles from 2006 - current, you can create a RSS Feed, when you click on journal title you can begin searching within it.
  

LESSON 2

• SIRS Discover:
  
• Got about 20 hits, not all relevant. I like that it tells you reading levels and other info in article, such as, whether there are pictures, activities, etc.

• I chose Mauritania because I've never heard of it and I found out that you can get tons of info about it! The History time-line was just one of the great things about it.

• Maps of the World
• Biographies: Can find numerous biographies, sort by different criteria.

• SIRS Issues Researcher
• Packed full of helpful and useful information. Especially liked the research tools, note organizer very cool!
• I chose Language Arts. There's a section to give you research ideas, you can find info on several different courses, different languages, reading and writing help, a "How do I?" section, lots of info I didn't know it had!
  

LESSON 1

World Book for Kids: I looked up dolphins and found all kinds of info on them in both WBKids and WBStudent. Some things I like about them are the "External Web Sites" selected by World Book, the "How to Cite" feature and the "Here this text read aloud".
World Book Advanced has a lot of info and I thought the "Article Contents" section would be a valuable tool and time saver for patrons.
World Book Discover: Language Translator