1. My biggest discovery was discovering that there are more places I can send my students to research than just the internet! This way I am getting information I want them to get instead of ehow or ask.com answers.
2. I will promote this to my students by giving them appropriate reference lists when doing a project. So I'll make a suggested source page with the information. Depending what the topic is will be where I send the students on this site. And since it is all ready to be accessed when we are in school it will be easier and I will make sure that I give them the information to access it outside of school. I will listen to co-workers when they are stumped and suggest it where needed.
Thank you so much for this opportunity! It was wonderful exploring the library!
Monday, March 31, 2014
Monday, March 10, 2014
Lesson 9 -- History and Genealogy Resources—Ancestry Library, Heritage Quest and Sanborn Maps
1. In Ancestry.com I searched my married name Elizabeth Rose Ketterling with birth date and nothing related to me came up, but I found lots of Elizabeth Ketterling's or Rose Ketterlings in the area. That is fun. I changed to my maiden name Elizabeth Rose Keihl and found nothing related to me. So I searched I added the location of South Dakota. No results showed.
Since I am interested in finding my deceased brother's wife I searched his name Daniel A Kemmer and his information popped up right away! I searched marriage licences and found his spouse's maiden name! This tool is real neat and you were right, never been interested in this before but may find a real interest now!
2. I searched for my grandmother I only met as an infant Mildred Keihl. Unfortunately I don't know her maiden name. I did an advanced search though adding my grandpa's name in to narrow the search and the first 3 searches came up with both their information :) I found where they lived in 1952 which was 224 Willow Drive Red Bank, NJ. Knowing my dad's birthdate he was 9 when they lived there. I found out she died Jan 12 1988, just shy of one month of my little sister's birth. This search was very fun.
3. It said there were no pictures unique to South Dakota, so I clicked the link that said picture collections related to South Dakota.
The following is a list of types of pictures I could choose from
Since I am interested in finding my deceased brother's wife I searched his name Daniel A Kemmer and his information popped up right away! I searched marriage licences and found his spouse's maiden name! This tool is real neat and you were right, never been interested in this before but may find a real interest now!
2. I searched for my grandmother I only met as an infant Mildred Keihl. Unfortunately I don't know her maiden name. I did an advanced search though adding my grandpa's name in to narrow the search and the first 3 searches came up with both their information :) I found where they lived in 1952 which was 224 Willow Drive Red Bank, NJ. Knowing my dad's birthdate he was 9 when they lived there. I found out she died Jan 12 1988, just shy of one month of my little sister's birth. This search was very fun.
3. It said there were no pictures unique to South Dakota, so I clicked the link that said picture collections related to South Dakota.
The following is a list of types of pictures I could choose from
All related to South Dakota
| Library of Congress Photo Collection, 1840-2000 | 615,248 |
| U.S., Historical Postcards | 115,977 |
| Selected U.S. Headstone Photos | 94,225 |
| U.S. Family Photo Collection, c. 1850-2000 | 16,935 |
| U.S. Civil War Photos, 1860-1865 | 6,846 |
| African American Photo Collection, 1850-2000 | 4,141 |
| U.S. Panoramic Photos, 1851-1991 | 3,764 |
| Professional Baseball Players,
1876-2004 (with images) I clicked on US family photo collections then I had to search a family. I am starting with Keihl in South Dakota. 3 photos came up from Iowa. I am going to search Ketterling, my married name and South Dakota, zero results. I also searched Nash and Layton which is family names. No results for South Dakota. The pictures that did come up were adorable black and white photos. I looked for other pictures and you can search through year books! That would be a fun trip! when I have some time. 4. I searched people because now I am interested. There is no results for Keihl. I searched my mom's maiden name Nash and there were 355 articles with people with the surname Nash! Most are from historical society newsletters. 5. I selected Aberdeen for the city July 1929-Oct 1960. I am not going to lie I could see this being useful, but I don't know how I am it would be useful to me. It was like reading a foreign language! Good luck to whomever can find this useful. |
Monday, March 3, 2014
Lesson 8
World Cat
There are ALOT of ways to search besides keywords. You could know little or a lot about a book and search to find results.
I searched World Cat for A Cedar Cove Christmas, the first book that got me introduce to Cedar Cove series by Debbie Macomber. The first two entries had the same title; the first entry showed the book was available at 2,278 libraries worldwide, and the 2nd entry, same book, showed 1,084 libraries worldwide! I clicked on the libraries worldwide link and the first library that showed was the Alexander Mitchell Library right here in Aberdeen! There are 3 different types of call numbers for this book listed. I will give the Dewey call number because most libraries in our region use this type: 813.54. Other things you can click on besides the author and subject would be descriptors of the book, then more books with similar descriptors come up, and genre/form, so more books with the same genre come up. I feel this is really neat because I love a certain author's series then have a hard time finding books like it, now I can use this and find things that meet what I like!
OAIster
I searched South Dakota like we were told too. I clicked on the Annual report with the author of SD Dept of Social Services. I couldn't "access" it like it said to do. There is only one library world wide that has the report and that is the South Dakota State Library. I was then viewing the page with all the information on it and it showed I could "access" it through a website because it is an online document. I clicked on the first access link and it took me to another database to search, I clicked the second and it gave me a list of the reports it was referring to. It was rather confusing, but nice to know that we have access to these kinds of reports!
As for other blogs....
I clicked EVERY link under the basic challenge and noone had completed this one yet... I guess I am a go getter getting this done on a Monday.... I will check back later to see what everyone else has come up with.
There are ALOT of ways to search besides keywords. You could know little or a lot about a book and search to find results.
I searched World Cat for A Cedar Cove Christmas, the first book that got me introduce to Cedar Cove series by Debbie Macomber. The first two entries had the same title; the first entry showed the book was available at 2,278 libraries worldwide, and the 2nd entry, same book, showed 1,084 libraries worldwide! I clicked on the libraries worldwide link and the first library that showed was the Alexander Mitchell Library right here in Aberdeen! There are 3 different types of call numbers for this book listed. I will give the Dewey call number because most libraries in our region use this type: 813.54. Other things you can click on besides the author and subject would be descriptors of the book, then more books with similar descriptors come up, and genre/form, so more books with the same genre come up. I feel this is really neat because I love a certain author's series then have a hard time finding books like it, now I can use this and find things that meet what I like!
OAIster
I searched South Dakota like we were told too. I clicked on the Annual report with the author of SD Dept of Social Services. I couldn't "access" it like it said to do. There is only one library world wide that has the report and that is the South Dakota State Library. I was then viewing the page with all the information on it and it showed I could "access" it through a website because it is an online document. I clicked on the first access link and it took me to another database to search, I clicked the second and it gave me a list of the reports it was referring to. It was rather confusing, but nice to know that we have access to these kinds of reports!
As for other blogs....
I clicked EVERY link under the basic challenge and noone had completed this one yet... I guess I am a go getter getting this done on a Monday.... I will check back later to see what everyone else has come up with.
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