Woot! Ebooks. I got to use this resource on Thursday of this week. We had a patron come into the library looking specifially for a how to guide on how to write an employee handbook, and you know what? EBooks on EbscoHost has one!
1. Search for a topic that interests me.....you know, I have become a big coffee drinker in the past few months. I'm gonna search "coffee".
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Um, ok. Interesting results. I get everything from wireless hacking to online dating to easy family meals. NOT what I was hoping for. But then, there might just not be that many ebooks written about coffee. Instead, let's check out wireless hacking! Always a safe option there. Nothing illegal at all.
So clicking into the title, it shows me why this particular title came up in my search. There are entires on making antennas from coffee cans and the open wi-fi networks of coffee shops. Well, I wasn't super specific in my coffee search. Guess I am going to get what they give me.
Looking at the Ebooks is about the best it could be on a screen. There are no fun page-flipping animations, but you can search a table of contents, go to specific pages, and get citations done for you. How perfect is that?!
2. Constution Day:
Depending on the age of your students, there are really only two options there that could be relevant. Ok, the one might be a bit of a stretch, but its for high school students.
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AP U.S. History
Full Text AvailableBy: Armstrong, Stephen; McBride, Edward. In: 5 Steps to a 5. New York : McGraw-Hill. 2004. eBook.eBookSubjects: HISTORY / United States / State & Local / General; Advanced placement programs (Education)--Study guidesAdd to folderShow Table of Contents Table of Contents
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Colonies and Revolution
Full Text AvailableBy: King, David C. In: American Heritage, American Voices. Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley. 2003. eBook.eBookSubjects: JUVENILE NONFICTION / History / United States / Colonial & Revolutionary PeriodsAdd to folderShow Table of Contents Table of Contents
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The Colonies and Revolution is the better bet, but like I said, the other maybe?
Maybe? No? Ok.
After a quick text search (hehe, nice) of Colonies and Revolution, there are however no entries in the book that have both the words "Constitution" and "Day" together. Nor is there in the A.P. U.S. History. Perhaps neither are your source for this particular search.
3. I chose to do "Nebraska" in my search. While a great many results would be beneficial to the search topic at hand (on Native cultures, tribes, etc), many are also publications that are from the University of Nebraska press that are not at all related to the topic, which makes sense because it's just searching the entire record of all the items for the term "Nebraska". That could come in handy later on if someone was looking specifically for something printed there.
Yay, coffee, wi-fi hacking, employee handbook writing, Constitution, and many books on Native culture later, this has been another episode of Shayna's reference challenge. Stay tuned for another catch up episode, coming up next!
Great episode! Your discoveries when searching for coffee are common in the online resources--results pop up that seem very odd until you go into them and say "aha--that is why it showed up". Great analysis of the publication search--it is an interesting way to look at content possibilities. Thanks for your post! Julie
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