My son will soon be getting a new black lab puppy that he plans to train for waterfowl hunting. I entered black lab dog into ProQuest search. There were MANY reports. I ended up narrowing my search to black lab AND waterfowl AND training as I noticed options under suggested options. I narrowed further by magazine article and found a nice one that I ended up printing out for him. I like the suggestions given as they remind you how to limit your search. It is also nice having the option of different types of articles to read.
After clicking the publications tab and noticing all the different publications available I was overwhelmed. WOW! I entered "library" as my search term. I got 20 options. I do a preschool story time each week so searched "preschool education" I ended up with Turtle magazine which is an educational magazine for preschoolers. I then tried searching education. I got 119 results that have education in the title. I like that you can search the topic in title, summary,or subject. It surely helps narrow the search so you can find what you are most closely looking for.
I will continue to search on ProQuest this week so I can better understand how it works so when we have patrons asking we know how to best help them.
You made good use of this tool, Rhonda! I love that you used the "Suggested Topics" and limiters to get exactly what you wanted. Good work and good report!
ReplyDeleteI love it when we can incorporate something personal into our lessons. It helps me understand the lessons better...as well as retain the information! During the first challenge in January, I had my 4th grader work through some of the lessons from WorldBooks for kids with me. It was fun to "learn" together! Welcome to the challenge, Rhonda!
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DeleteRhonda thanks for the idea, I do a preschool story times with kids ages 0-preschool,I try to stick with the same theme so sometimes I have a hard time getting a topic and breaking it down for the different age groups. So as you said above about searching “I like that you can search the topic in title, summary, or subject. It surely helps narrow the search so you can find what you are most closely looking for." It helps me find exactly what I am looking for and ideas for lap sits etc. If I did not look at your blog I would not have looked up pre-school in publication
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