Wrap-up

I have really enjoyed this class! I had taken classes on one or two of these before, but you always learn something new, like that there are several databases in Worldcat! This has been a great refresher and has inspired me to keep pushing the databases at our library. Thank you!

Genealogy Resources

I have spent a lot of time on Ancestry doing my own family research, it is amazing on what little nuggets of information you can find on Ancestry. When I try my name the only thing that I can find is my phone #. But I love to go through the census to see what kind of information they asked, like do you own a radio? I also like to learn what their occupation was. One thing that I have learned through my own experience is to keep coming back and checking for new information. It is amazing how much information is added to this site. Also, if you cannot find a name in a census in Ancestry then try Heritage Quest. They have different indexes and sometimes they will spell things a little differently, giving you the ability to find what you are looking for.
When I tried the Photos and maps using the keyword South Dakota, I found a lot of interesting items, like baseball players? Didn't know we had any from SD. It was fun to snoop around, although there were a lot of hits either on South or North, so the use of quotes would help.

Heritage Quest
For family research, I haven't had much luck with this program, although if you are doing research on a famous person or event, this would give you great references of where to find information.

Sanborn Maps
I enjoyed looking at the Sanborn maps of my home town of Parker, to see what is different and what is still the same. I never knew that at one time there was a Presbyterian Church on Main Street that was heated by coal and had gas lights! If you would be doing any sort of research on a town's history, these maps would be a wonderful asset!

Learning Express

I love Learning Express! It has so many useful exams and lessons available. I also like that you can access this from home. The testing format is easy and you get feedback immediately. I like that it also explains why you got a problem wrong, so you can learn from your mistakes. I neve saw that ebooks were available! How cool is that, to be able to have study help available on the same site! There are so many ebooks, it's a wonderful tool for anybody who needs to take an exam!

CAMIO

Under my search for Paul Revere I found that he was an excellent craftsman in Silver. He made bowls, spoons, sugar bowls, urns, platters, teapots, etc...
I never knew that he was such a craftsman. Neat!

When I searched Sioux I found a lot of artifacts from the Sioux and some recent art pieces by the Sioux. I was able to narrow my search by time period, which would help if I was looking for a specific era. The photographs were a good quality and you can get a lot of details.

I first did a search on Renoir and found lots of wonderful paintings, then I narrowed my search by typing Renoir bather and it did narrow the search to those that had bather in the title. I saw you could also narrow the search by format, date and subject. Pretty neat.

As far as how my committe could use this, at this point I am not sure how I would use this. I think it would be great for research, especially in the art field.

The favorites part is pretty cool, would be great for a presentation. I really liked the compare feature, so you could examine two works side by side. Pretty Cool!

ArchiveGrid

After putting in my search for Sitting bull I came up with 1 record that was located at Cornell University. The search also gave a brief summary of the life of Sitting Bull.

On the second search I typed Thomas Edison and had 232 hits. I tried Thomas A Edison Manuscript: Story of a great American. Which is housed at Harvard University. It gave a brief discription of the manuscript (length, date, etc..)