Lesson 10 - Wrap Up

Week 10 -The Wrap Up--My biggest discovery was to find databases that will help the trouble learner. The ones that are not at the top of their class. No matter who you are the tools are here for them to find. It can be exciting and fun while you are learning. I know it was for me, although I did run into some tough subjects or programs. I will work on those. We should be thankful we have libraries in small towns so the people who do not have computers at home can go to them. We will need to push patrons to get their state library card. I have learned that we a facebook page now this will help spread the word, also with e-mails. Make sure we have hand-outs on hand and let our volunteers know about this, the word will get out faster. Well, Jane and Julie I made it through this. I just want to say thank you for your time and hard work you put into this program.

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

#9--Ancestry Library --1) The first time I started the search I used my maiden name one hundred thousand to look at. Then I tried my married name and there were one million results. I did find my name in the U.S. Public Records Index, Volume 1 and U.S. Phone and Address Directories. There was and mistake on the street address, everything else was right.
2) Looked up my grandparents on my Dad's side. I found death certificate's, census records and marriage records. I also got to see the names of Aunts, and Uncles. After this course is done I will dig deeper into this program.
3) I did not see any "Photos and Maps" tap to click on. I click on "Maps, Atlases & Gazetteers" it had 114 results. I then pick "Pictures" it had 4,581 sorted this was about U.S. yearbooks. Maybe our program does not have "Photos and Maps" tab.
4) Heritage Quest---I chose Search PERSI--I put in South Dakota, Lawrence county, German nothing came up. I went back and in Keyword, English I had one hit. "HBO's Deadwood and the English language" this article is in the Great Plains Quarterly, Lincoln, NE: Feb 2007, Vol. 27, Iss. 4. If I wanted to obtain a copy of the article I would need to contact the Allen County Public Library Foundation. Send this form describing the articles to be copied, provide the full entry from PERSI and the name of the journal. Request only six articles at a time. The charge is $7.50 for each letter, pre-paid plus $0.20 per page copied to be billed to you. Request not acceptable by phone, fax, or e-mail. Please allow 6-8 weeks. This would not show me the article to fine out how many pages might be in the article.
5) Sanborn Maps, -- I chose the Kleemann Building which is on Custer Ave. The Post Office is on Custer Ave and 7th street, in August 1891 they both showed up. There is and alley between these two buildings. As I went to Mar 1897 you could still see the Kleemann Building  not the post office. In the Sept 1903 across from the Post Office a flour, grain & company showed up. In the year June 1928 the Post Office is still standing and being use. This was nice to see how a town or city has changed over the years. We have some patrons come in and ask us if we have a map for Custer and we can show them how to use the databases on our references computer. This program I really enjoyed it. The more you work with this you get comfortable with it. That I like!

#8--ArchiveGrid and Camio

#1 ArchiveGrid -- Started this lesson off we had to type in "Sitting Bull autograph card" it gave us one result. Click into that it gave us notes and summaries; of Sitting Bull's life. I learned his date of birth with a question mark after the date and the date in which he died. Sitting Bull was also know by three other names. He was a Native American shaman and leader of the Hunkpapa Sioux. He was wounded in battle many occasions. He did not like the White man coming into his territory. Sitting Bull led the Sioux and Cheyenne warriors against U.S. Soldiers of the 7th Cavalry at the battle of Little Bighorn. Many were killed. Sitting Bull led his tribe into Canada where they lived until surrendering to U.S. Forces. After his capture he toured with Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show. Sitting Bull was killed while resisting arrest for his unwillingness to abandon the traditions of the ritual Ghost Dance, which had been outlawed. You can say he lived his life his way and also stood up for what he believed in.
#2 For my own search I looked up Elvis Presley it had 84 results. In the Hugo Keesing Collection on Elvis Presley as you clicked into it you would see a table of contents. Starting with abstract, important information for Users of the collection, Historical note, Scope and Contents of the Collection, Custodial History and Acquisition information, Processing information, Arrangement of Collection. It just went on and on. I also checked into Brigham Young University -- Preliminary Register of the Ken Darby papers, 1929-1992 this told you how Ken Darby new Elvis Presley, and that he composed "Love Me Tender" and acted as vocal coach to Elvis Presley. There were online searchers you could look at for more information. I also notice under the title search you can see "read more" a page would come up give you Notes and Summaries, This collection covers and Contact and archivist to learn more about access to materials in this collection. Inside the box {Brigham Young University}. You could click into it, but you have to belong to the University to go into the site.
#3 CAMIO -- A--Look up "Paul Revere" It showed you the items made by him. I looked at a teaspoon, tea urn, I really like the Goblet - date 1782, picture of the Boston Massacre 1770. I also liked the Coffee Urn. I liked when you clicked on the view a high-resolution full image. I was able to see some of the details in the picture.
B--In the Sioux search I found bead work, paintings on oil canvas, paintings in pencils and color pencils. Pipe bowl and pipe stem was pretty. I saw blanket, saddle bag, war club, beaded dress and boll and baby bonnet, etc.                                                                                                                                              C--As for my favorite artist I do not have one. If someone came into the library and had a artist name I would take them to our research computer and show them how to look them up.
D--I picked "Fitz Hugh Lane for this exercise and it showed 14 works. It was cool to be able to put them in a slide show. At lease you could see the picture well and in the view high-resolution was great. To be able to save this on a webpage as you work on your project would be able to save time and what a great slide show you would have in your presentation. Now when a question pops into my head about history or art I will know where to look for it, in ArchiveGrid and Camio.

#7--WorldCat and More FirstSearch

I clicked into WorldCat and the advanced tab was already open for me. So I typed in my book title "A Clearing in the Wild by Jane Kirkpatrick".  I hit search at the bottom of the page. It was the #4 book on the list of books that showed up. As you look at the book it gave the title, below that it gave you the author, publication. As you click onto the book it gave you lots more information about the book. As I was looking a little bit down I saw (Libraries worldwide own item: 1129) so I clicked into it and it gave me the location & libraries in which you can fine this book. The first library I had chosen it said --Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage, Alexander Mitchell LIBR was the top library. the next two I had chosen said--404-File or directory not found. On the fourth try I got into the site and this was Siouxland LIBR. It gave you the OCLC control number, it was a Fiction book and gave the ISBN number and how many copies they had in there library. You could also put a hold on the book if you would like too.  These were in South Dakota.  I also went into Iowa the top #1 went right to the book. This library had all the same kind of information but it only had on book.The three other ones I tried gave the same messages as in South Dakota. I click on the authors name and it showed one other book she had written in was on sound recording and I clicked on the next same authors name and it gave me 21 other books she had written. It showes two subjects the first one I picked it showed 175 titles matched:Women pioneers--fiction. Then I saw you could go to a web links to download or place a hold on some of the other books. Then I went back to click on the second subject. It had 18 titles matched:Social isolation--fiction. It also had some sound recording in this section to. I did see you could put some of these on hold or add to my list.
When I looked into other databases I chose ClasePeridica - Earthquakes it gave me 91 hits but within each search you could look at 457 searches. So plenty of information within this program.
Part 2 OAIster The record found 766. I had to look for a long while before I would fined any books in South Dakota.  Well it is getting late and I had to log off again.  This was more relaxing on this course. Almost caught up.

Lesson 6--EBooks on Ebscohost

1. I typed different subjects in and not much would show up. Then I typed in Mexican, lucky the first title was - cooking the Mexican way.  So this e-book had all the information in that you needed. I also checked into other e-books about Mexicans and Mexico. The ebooks would be good so when you went on a trip to Mexico or any country you could refer back to your e-book  to look up information you might have forgotten.
2. The Constitution--I typed this in and there were 175 results. The book "The Constitution, the law, and freedom of expression, 1787-1987" The Table Of Contents was a big help in picking out which book you would use for your paper.
3) Class project in Advanced Search "Changing Image of the City:Planning for Downtown Omaha, 1945-1973 came up. You click into this and it gave you who its by: Daly-Bednarek, Janet R. Universty of Nebraska Press, 1992. eBook, 306p. then the subjects, Database: eBook Collection. You could add to folder. eBook full text, Download (Offline) and a Table of Contents.
To get to this point of information was kind of hard. This program was really hard. I will look into it after this course is over.