Week 10 - Wrap Up

1. What was your biggest discovery?
       I don't think I had a particular "biggest" discovery, but I had a couple favorites. My favorite resource for fun was CAMIO. It was easy to serch and the images were great. Learning Express was my other favorite. It has some great practice tests and I think some of our students are unaware that it is available to them.

2. How will you promote or use the resources?
      Being a health science librarian, many of the resources I use when working with students and faculty are specifically aimed at health and medicine. However, I do work at the reference desk providing general reference service to all students regardless of major, faculty, staff, and community memebers. Many of the resources provided by the SD State Library will be very helpful for the wider range of interests my general users have.

History and Genealogy Resources

AncestryLibrary

In my AncestryLibrary search I found my birth record and my Dad’s obituary.

I could not find my grandpa in the census records, but I did find his WWII enlistment record, his U.S. Veteran’s grave site record, and the Social Security Death Index Record.

My AncestryLibrary page doesn’t seem to have a photos and maps tab, so I couldn’t figure out how to perform the search.

HeritageQuest

I started browsing in HeritageQuest and ran across a book titled A Narrative of the Griswold Family. I decided to look at it for no other reason than when I read the title, the first thing that came to my mind was “That there’s an RV…don't you go falling in love with it now, because, we're taking it with us when we leave here next month.”

I turned out to be very cool. It was published in 1931 by Ruth Lee Griswold and followed the family from England in the 1600s to the US. There were pictures of the various family members and homes and drawings of family trees. It was quite interesting.

Sanborn Maps

I looked at Vermillion in November 1903. The index had 3 sheets. I found USD’s Old Main building. It was very interesting to look at the campus from back them when there were very few buildings compared to now. I also looked at in Brookings in November 1916. The index had 9 sheets. I found SDSU or the South Dakota State College and Agricultural School as it was called then.

I found the panning a bit clunky, but not too bad. I liked that clarity wasn’t lost when you zoomed in.