Monday, December 10, 2012

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 I looked in MiddleSearch Plus to see if Seventeen was included and it wasn't, so I did a search for Teen and that gave me me Teen magazine and Teen People.  I noticed that there seemd to be many sports magazines, Ski, Skiing, Soccer Digest, etc.  I was surprised that Seventeen was not there.

I did a basic search for "sports and concussions" and had about 5 pages of results.  I noticed that most of the results were from periodicals and many from Sports Illustrated.  I picked an article from Scholastic Choice called The Invisible Injury.  What was really interesting was that you could listen to it with an American accent or British or Australian. There was a Contents box on the left side which included which included Words to Know, Discussion Questions and Test Yourself.   I thought the article contained quite a lot of information, more than I had actually expected.  Looking at the right column I noticed you could add to folder, save cite, etc; but you could also translate the article into many languages.  I tried French just for fun.  I also tried SmartText searching which gave me 987 more hits.

I read a few other blogs and discovered similarities.  One person had the same trouble I did using the elementary  part, it really didn't seem to list periodicals.  Hmmmmm? I know that we were looking in the right place.  The periodicals I found were by entering the name in the search box.

I did my ebook search on alcoholism.  There were a few books that looked very promising, but a few didn't seem to have anything to do with alcoholism.  Surprisingly, it seemed that the two best where "juvenile" literature.  I searched several different ways, alcoholism, alcohol, etc. and the results were much the same.

Doing the search for Constitution Day didn't seem to yield much that was worthwhile.  I added American to the topic and got some books that seemed a little better.  I really didn't find much on this at all.  Maybe Founding Fathers, or The Bill of Rights, or The Constituion of the United States of America.

After putting Nebraska in the publishers box I found 11 books that were published by the University of Nebraska.  There were some interesting books. One that caught my eye in particular was Mountains We Have Crossed, Diaries and letters of the Oregon Mission,  1838.  I can see that by using a State University publisher you might come up with some lesser known interesting titles. I tried putting Maine in with no results and then Massachusetts which gave me University of Massachusetts publications.


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