Lesson 5 ProQuest

1. I choose the topic Preschool for my ProQuest search since I am in the middle of picking a preschool for my youngest and planning to teach the Preschool Child Development class this spring. After I hit enter a bar under the search bar comes up with "related searches" which are more defined searches on the preschool topic such as: Preschool Education; Preschool education AND Early childhood education. Followed by this bar is how many results the search produced, the ability to search within the search results, create an alert and save the search. The next bar down then allows you to save, email, print, cite and export the documents selected. Below that you can choose if you want the brief view or detailed view.  Each article entry is then listed with the title, a quick description of what the article is about, and clips of any images that go along with it. On the right hand side you can sort your search, it automatically comes up with relevance, but can be sorted by publication date, oldest first or newest first. There is also a long list of ways you can narrow your search depending on what you are looking for.

1.a. I visited many of the blogs. I found that they are extremely BORING and just regurgitating facts. I am not going to make it my goal to personalize and make this fun!  I ended up comment on the Tatted Librarian because she was so detailed and personal with her posts! Loved it!

2. I did a search for Home and the first magazine that came up was Better Homes and Gardens, which I use a lot in my classes for articles and cut and paste things. It surprised me that the 7th result was Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences. Home wasn't in the title but it is in the content.
Each entry gives a summary including the magazine title the volumes that are covered in full text; coverage in any format; the Publisher; ISSN number; place of publication; and publication title history.
I think that it is neat to see what the magazines used to be titled :)
On the right hand side, there is a tool box that will help narrow searches for the publications down also.