ArchiveGrid and CAMIO

ArchiveGrid

1.      The Notes and Summaries section stated: Sitting Bull, also known as Tatanka Iyotake or Tatanka Iyotanka or Ta-Tanka I-Yotan, was a Native American shaman and leader of the Hunpapa Sioux. He fought against the Crow Indians and was wounded in battle on several occasions. Sitting Bull greatly opposed the encroachment of the white men. He led Sioux and Cheyenne warriors against U.S. soldiers of the 7th Cavalry at the battle of Little Bighorn. After the battle, in which 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.

The autograph card I was searching for is located at the Cornell University Library.

2.      I decided that I wanted to search for a copy of Gray’s Anatomy. I tried multiple ways of searching, I tried searching for Henry Gray and used the formal name of the oldest editions of the book, but in the end, didn’t even come close to finding what I was looking for. The closest I got was the Historical Society of Pennsylvania collection containing several brass dies that were used in the book. I’m not sure what I was doing wrong. I did not find this resource to be intuitive or easy to use.

CAMIO

1.      When I typed in Paul Revere, I found a teaspoon, tea urn, and sugar bowl made by Paul Revere.

2.      When searching Sioux, I found pictures of gloves and other items of clothing, pipes, drawings, dolls, and many other items made by the Sioux people.

3.      The first thing I actually searched for was the Capitoline Wolf or the She Wolf. I was looking for the bronze statue of her suckling Romulus and Remus. Since I could not find it in the database, I was quite bummed, but carried on anyway.

I chose Rodin as my artist. I was not at all surprised to find that there were numerous pictures of The Thinker and The Age of Bronze. However, I was surprised that I found Eve, but not Adam, nor were The Three Shades or The Kiss(my personal favorite) in the database. At least The Gates of Hell was, which I happen to think is a very cool piece. The database did include some of his paintings, etc., but I prefer his sculpture. There were some very nice pieces included in the database, but also some very big holes.

4.      This would be a helpful resource for some our undergrads that are taking an art appreciation course. We have some really cool art resources at our library already, but this is also a nice resource.

5.      The Favorites view has some great tools, I like that you can zoom in and out and the photo didn’t lose its clarity.

Worldcat and OAIster

1.      Worldcat

I chose to search for the book The Filter Bubble by Eli Pariser. 1209 libraries have item #1. The top library listed was Augustana College. The call #s listed are -- LC: ZA4237; Dewey: 004.67/8; NAL: ZA4237. It looks like it’s the only book he has written, but I did find a link to a presentation he gave that is available on the TED website. I clicked on the subject Invisible Web and got 32 items however, most were duplicates of the same 2 items.

Also included in the record were a picture of the cover, an abstract, the publisher, date of publication, ISBN and other information.

2.      OAIster
 
I found it kind of funny that the first item that came up in my South Dakota search was Flood Tracking for North Dakota. When I went into the record and clicked the access link, I found the complete title was Flood Tracking Charts for North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, and the Missouri and Yellowstone Basins of Montana, so the subject search was accurate, but the title of the item was misleading.

eBooks on EBSCOHost

1. I decided to search for climate change simply because I couldn’t think of anything that I was really interested in this afternoon but it’s a topic that has come up in some conversations recently. Just to see what would happen, I put climate change in the default search box. I got 108 results, the first being Business Climate Shifts: Profiles of Change Makers. Which, it’s probably no surprise, was not what I was thinking of when I typed in climate change. The 3^rd item that came up was Introduction to Ecotoxicology and I noticed it had this subject term: SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change. So it would probably be useful to me. Then I searched for “climate change” and got 18 results. Not all were relevant to the topic I was searching for, but at least there were fewer to look through.

2. I began typing constitution into the search box and one of the suggested terms was Constitutional history, so I decided to try that. I only got 8 results, but among those I found The Constitution of the United States of America and The Articles of Confederation. They were available on EBSCO though Project Gutenberg. So that was kind of cool. As for other books, even when I did a very basic search just for the word constitution and got 176 results, I only came up with 1 book that would interest me on Constitution Day. It was Representing Popular Sovereignty: The Constitution in American Political Culture. I could check it out and download it, so apparently it was one of my library’s ebooks.

3. When I performed search 3, I got 56 results with the majority on topics of Native American culture and history. There was on title about African American pioneers and a “mish-mash” of books on literature. This would be very helpful in finding information on Native American history published in Nebraska.

Gale Virtual Reference Library

1.      I did click on the title list to review all titles, but I actually preferred the look of the home page. I am one of those people that like to see the cover of a book and I like how the books were listed by subject instead of just alphabetically.

 I chose to look at the Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine. It consists of 5 volumes with brief articles on various diseases, treatments, and medical tests. You can choose the volume you wish to view and browse the articles alphabetically or you can search by keyword within the book. This would be an excellent resource for an undergraduate or community member looking for thorough, yet easily understandable information. The feature linking to related articles at the bottom of the page is a great tool.

2.      I chose to search for Vitamin D. The first 4 results were 1. An overview of vitamin d, 2. An overview of vitamin d deficiency, 3. An overview of vitamin d deficiency, and 4. An overview of rickets. Result number 1 was what I was specifically thinking of when I typed in my search term, but the next three were also very relevant to vitamin D.

I tested the listen feature and found it to be much better than many others. The voice was still a bit robotic, but even if shut my eyes, I could still understand what was being said and the flow of the speech was quite good.

3.      I reviewed Electronic Resources Challenge 2012, Hanna’s Blog, Thru My Eyes, and Annie’s Ideas. All 4 of them made great use of this resource and explored angles I hadn’t necessarily thought about.

Proquest

1.    I decided to search for information on Sonny Barger. I find him very interesting. He is considered the founder of the Hell’s Angels, was a part of the infamous Rolling Stones concert, and has spent time in federal prison. But…he’s also written books and been in movies, and recently has guest starred on one of my favorite TV shows. You can buy Sonny Barger merchandise. The man has managed to brand himself. It blows my mind!

Anyway, I found lots of information in Proquest on Sonny Barger. There were reviews of his books, articles about him that included interviews; there were even newspaper articles about his criminal trial. I think I found some pretty cool stuff.

1a.   I commented on Today’s thoughts blog.

 2.    I searched for the Journal of the Medical Library Association. Proquest contains the full text back to 2003. I also decided to search for journals with library in the title. Proquest has 21 titles available.