I would say I didn't have a big discovery on just one thing -- I hadn't used a lot of these sites and it was a great learning experience for me. I hadn't realized how much there was to learn about each site - I use World Cat all the time here at work and didn't know you could look for more things on the site and how to look up different items different ways.
At our library we already have patrons that use the Ancestry site and some others to look up family things. Also when do school tours we show the kids the different Sirs and World Book sites. I would recommend the different sites to our patrons if they need to know about history or do some research.
Again this challenge was a challenge for me...I am grateful I have great co-workers that can help me with different things I didn't understand and they did. I do enjoy these challenges - it is a great thing to learn what is out there for us to use and for our patrons to use that I didn't know existed.
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Sanborn Maps
Since I am originally not from SD I don't know many of the towns or what used to be here, so I did end up picking Big Stone City - I lived there for a couple of months and started school there. The date of the map is March 1904 - I know today there isn't as many business open as what is on the map. The only I could recognize was the school. Kind of hard to tell if the school is in the same place now as where it was then. I did also check the February 1927 map and the school is still in the same place and so is the Methodist Church -- I believe I know where that is located...hard for me to tell by the streets. This would be something I see people using if they are looking for an old business or church from a specific time and place. Kind of interesting to know there is something like this available to look at.
Heritage Quest
I looked at all the different things you can go into and what I found was you need to make sure you know names, places and spellings of everything. I did try a search for a MN county for history and got some stuff had no clue what it was. Plus did a search to check an obituary and couldn't find the person I was looking for. I find this site kind of confusing and a little challenging but maybe if worked with it more or had help from someone who has used to show me the way through it I might enjoy it. It has a lot of different search ways - I like the Revolutionary War search - that would be interesting to know if had family that fought in it.
Monday, March 19, 2012
AncestryLibrary
I am kind of excited for this one since I haven't done much family history and haven't used these sites. When searching myself I found my name, date of birth, parents names and also showed when I lived in Browns Valley, MN. I thought that was pretty cool!!
When searching for the grandparent I thought I might have a hard time since couldn't remember when my grandpa was born and forgot he had a middle name since had 2 first names lol. But it came up with information which surprised me. It showed his death information, my mom's birth information and her 2 youngest brothers birth information. I was surprised it didn't show her older sister or her other brother. I think I might use this to do further checking on my ancestors...wonder if can find my grandfather's birth parents..who knows.
Wow when you put in South Dakota you get all kind of different things, famous baseball players, Library of Congress photos which are of different town in SD and WWI solider photos. When you hover your cursor over the information it provides a more detailed information tab. That is kinda cool. This is an interesting site!
When searching for the grandparent I thought I might have a hard time since couldn't remember when my grandpa was born and forgot he had a middle name since had 2 first names lol. But it came up with information which surprised me. It showed his death information, my mom's birth information and her 2 youngest brothers birth information. I was surprised it didn't show her older sister or her other brother. I think I might use this to do further checking on my ancestors...wonder if can find my grandfather's birth parents..who knows.
Wow when you put in South Dakota you get all kind of different things, famous baseball players, Library of Congress photos which are of different town in SD and WWI solider photos. When you hover your cursor over the information it provides a more detailed information tab. That is kinda cool. This is an interesting site!
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Camio
The items shown made by Paul Revere were some paintings, a teaspoon, a spoon, a sugar bowl with a cover and some other personal items. I hadn't realized he made those items. I like how it tells you the date of about when the items were around and where they are located.
For the search of Sioux you were also shown paintings, artifacts, dolls and pipes. There were lots of really interesting items that are shared. I like how it tells what the item is, who the creator was, the date and again where the item can be located.
I did my search on Georgia O'Keeffe--some of the workers have been talking about her lately and I wanted to see what kind of work she did. The search brought up some of her paintings...I loved looking at them and found a couple that I liked. Again shows the dates, where they are located - most I could tell would be found in New York, Cleveland and Philadelphia. I found when you click on the picture it makes the picture bigger and gives you more information about the painting. The one I clicked on was the White Flower, price is $8000, dated 1929, tells the size of it and it is oil on canvas. That is all great information for art dealers and collectors. I thought that was kind of interesting to know.
I am not sure how the community would use this.....unless used during an art show display or something like that. Possibly if a student - college or high school had to do research on a particular artist and see some of their work - this would be good for that.
I played with a couple different pictures of Georgia O'Keeffe's and moved them around, did the slide show and the comparing of the images was cool. That would come in handy to check replicas of pictures or if you were painting something that an artist did and want to see how close you got yours...that would be kind of cool. This was an interesting site, glad I got to try it out.
For the search of Sioux you were also shown paintings, artifacts, dolls and pipes. There were lots of really interesting items that are shared. I like how it tells what the item is, who the creator was, the date and again where the item can be located.
I did my search on Georgia O'Keeffe--some of the workers have been talking about her lately and I wanted to see what kind of work she did. The search brought up some of her paintings...I loved looking at them and found a couple that I liked. Again shows the dates, where they are located - most I could tell would be found in New York, Cleveland and Philadelphia. I found when you click on the picture it makes the picture bigger and gives you more information about the painting. The one I clicked on was the White Flower, price is $8000, dated 1929, tells the size of it and it is oil on canvas. That is all great information for art dealers and collectors. I thought that was kind of interesting to know.
I am not sure how the community would use this.....unless used during an art show display or something like that. Possibly if a student - college or high school had to do research on a particular artist and see some of their work - this would be good for that.
I played with a couple different pictures of Georgia O'Keeffe's and moved them around, did the slide show and the comparing of the images was cool. That would come in handy to check replicas of pictures or if you were painting something that an artist did and want to see how close you got yours...that would be kind of cool. This was an interesting site, glad I got to try it out.
Monday, March 12, 2012
ArchiveGrid
Upon during the search of Sitting Bull I found out he had 3 different AKAs - different names that he went by, I didn't know that. He was a Shawman for the tribe and didn't like the white man. There was a battle of Little Bighorn between the tribe and the white man. Something else I didn't know was that later on he was killed while resisting arrest...I thought he was killed in a battle.
I did my next search on Helen Keller - I love her information, her and her life! She was an amazing woman! The results that came up for me were a lot of different letters you could read and different photos you could look at. Most of the information is coming from different Universities in the US and also the New York State Archives. I can see people using this site to get their information if they need something quick and something with just a little information. It was an interesting site.
I did my next search on Helen Keller - I love her information, her and her life! She was an amazing woman! The results that came up for me were a lot of different letters you could read and different photos you could look at. Most of the information is coming from different Universities in the US and also the New York State Archives. I can see people using this site to get their information if they need something quick and something with just a little information. It was an interesting site.
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
WorldCat
I used to be scared to use worldcat thought it was difficult but now that is the only one I use to look up items for patrons to see if can borrow it from another library if we don't have it. I like using it -- it is SO easy to use!!
I looked up the book What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty --- very good book!! One that I recommend to patrons to read. When did the search it pulled up 22 results, 976 libraries worldwide and top library was ours AML. The call # is Fiction Moriarty
I didn't know she had other books to read -- now that I know can check authors by clicking on their name I can see what else is available. I will have to order some of her other ones and see if I like them just as much as this one!
When looking at the subject you can click on Australia - that is where the book takes place. Also, memory disorders, amnesiacs and life change events. This site is very useful, helpful and resourceful in so many different ways. You can search so many ways for an item and get what you want.
When did the South Dakota search what comes up is a basic over view of what I clicked on. I clicked on Dreams and Dust in the Black Hills - Shows who the author is, the committee, subject information and department - the history department at the University of New Mexico. It is kind of interesting to use...personally not sure if will use it myself - but good to have to help patrons look up subject information.
I looked up the book What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty --- very good book!! One that I recommend to patrons to read. When did the search it pulled up 22 results, 976 libraries worldwide and top library was ours AML. The call # is Fiction Moriarty I didn't know she had other books to read -- now that I know can check authors by clicking on their name I can see what else is available. I will have to order some of her other ones and see if I like them just as much as this one!
When looking at the subject you can click on Australia - that is where the book takes place. Also, memory disorders, amnesiacs and life change events. This site is very useful, helpful and resourceful in so many different ways. You can search so many ways for an item and get what you want.
When did the South Dakota search what comes up is a basic over view of what I clicked on. I clicked on Dreams and Dust in the Black Hills - Shows who the author is, the committee, subject information and department - the history department at the University of New Mexico. It is kind of interesting to use...personally not sure if will use it myself - but good to have to help patrons look up subject information.
EBSCOhost
When I first did a topic search of my choice there were no records found...I like to scrapbook. Tried scrapbook and scrap booking...nothing available. I then went to crafts to see what was available. It comes up with books for craft ideas and any other items that have the word craft in it. I looked at the book Crafts to Make in the Summer - thought maybe would find something to use for summer reading. I did find one really cute project called Flashing Fireflies - easy to follow directions and pictures. That is what I like - can see what you are making...not having to guess.
For the Constitution search -- you gets lots of choices in the drop down to choose from. I found a couple of books I might have used when was a student to look up information. I would have used Speeches of the American Presidents By. Janet Podell and another one would be Dictionary of American History By. Thomas L. Purvis.
For the advance search I put in Nebraska and the items that came up showed they were - University of Nebraska Press. Not sure if that is what I was supposed to find or not....but that is what my search result was.
For the Constitution search -- you gets lots of choices in the drop down to choose from. I found a couple of books I might have used when was a student to look up information. I would have used Speeches of the American Presidents By. Janet Podell and another one would be Dictionary of American History By. Thomas L. Purvis.
For the advance search I put in Nebraska and the items that came up showed they were - University of Nebraska Press. Not sure if that is what I was supposed to find or not....but that is what my search result was.
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