Ebooks on EbscoHost

To my surprise I learned today that I did not need to be doing both the basic exercise and the Advanced Challenge for each topic. That explains why it has been taking me longer than I had thought it would!

Ebooks on Ebscohost is another great resource for expanding our local library without taking space or funding. Of course, the patrons do need to be at the library, but with the selection available to them it is worth their time. It took a little getting used to the set up on this site. I found a few very good resources for Constitution Day: Let's Celebrate Today and Representing Popular Sovereignty both had information about the celebration. I started out researching free stuff for busy moms. There were 91 results but I narrowed it down with the Boolean and had 4 excellent sources. The table of contents in each book was very helpful and made it very easy to move around within the text. The advanced search for the western history resulted in 136 sources. This could be narrowed down to fit the interests of the patron requesting the information. It is nice to have the choice of downloading the book offline or saving to the file.

I then used the visual search for resume writing. There were several great titles to select. I looked at 201 Dynamic Job Search Letters. The download time was extremely long for this book. It may have been how I did it - I am not sure. It was worth the wait for anyone looking for this type of information. I found the fairy tale books very quickly. The author is Lang and there were four colors - violet, blue, yellow, and red. I prefer the advanced search to the other searches. I am sure there are many who would prefer the visual. This is a great resource for those obscure questions and for research topics. Both students needing specific resource materials and patrons just browsing for gook information will find this data base very useful.

The book selection seems to be very adequate for the topics I had selected to research.