Friday, April 30, 2010

Library Challenge Lesson #5 Net Library

In Net Library when I did a full text search on the Dead Sea Scrolls I found 62 results. When I used Dead Sea Scrolls in a key word search nothing came up. But back to the first results. I spent some time looking at the book on Archeology and Biblical Interpretation. Always so easy to get sidetracked on interesting subjects.

For the fitness guru I got 26 results from a keyword search of "fitness", sorting by newest first. A couple of books that I would recommend would be Fitness Leader's Handbook and Nutrition for Maximum performance.

In the advanced search option I search for Nebraska in the Publisher's Box and found everything from changing images of Omaha to the History of Danish Literature.

I spent some time scrolling through the list of ebooks -- looked at a couple on children's self esteem and one on rocks and minerals. I can see how you could spend a lot of time meandering through the options just as you do wandering the shelves in different parts of the library.

1 comment:

Jane Heitman Healy said...

Hi, Running, I wish I could have seen the Dead Sea Scroll exhibit! I love how you compare browsing in NetLibrary to browsing a hard copy library collection. It is easy to get pulled in many directions. Thanks for your comments.