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.