Gale Virtual Reference Library

Gale Virtual Reference has more to offer than I had originally thought. After completing the exercises, I have a much more thorough idea of how to better use this resource. I selected the Encyclopedia of Every Day Law and selected Family Law. We have questions regarding wills and estate planning so I looked at this more closely. Just to read information on a current topic I also looked at Physician assisted suicide and grandparents rights. There is alot of current information that would add to our collection. It will give addition resources to those writing papers and current information for those just curious. I did a search on how to find an attorney and birth order. I was not successful in finding anything on birth order, but there was good advice on how to find an attorney if the need was there.  The listen feature is very helpful for those with sight problems or if someone would just rather listen than read it online.  

For the civic organization sponsoring a community event with the spring holiday theme, I choose Nation and World and did a search for spring festivals. There were 10 recipes. I then used the Junior  Worldmark Encyclopedia for World Holidays and the Junior Worldmark of food and recipes of the world to complete the information on traditions and games. When I checked the contents by country and found a calendar of festivals for the year. This was a great resource for the list of festivals and the countries. After choosing the festivals, the country and festival could be searched and this information gave the types of activities during that festival. The ability to view the text in different formats is great as is the choice to save the article.

I used the advanced search and selected publication within 2012. The gave a list of those titles added in 2012. I looked at the guide to scholarships and found very good information. This is a topic that is requested at our library but is very difficult (and costly) to always have the most current information. Thank you for providing this date base to the libraries in South Dakota!