Lesson 7/March 2015

Ebooks on EbscoHost

1.  I chose college basketball, tis the season.  It started as a very broad topic but using the refine results area you can really get down to what it is you truly want.  I wasn't looking for anything too specific, just seeing what i could find.  I especially like that you can pick the years to search.  Too many search engines won't let you do that and you end up having to sort through a bunch of titles that are way too old.  On the other hand if you are looking for something older, more history of a subject, you can use it that way too.  March Is For Corporate Madness, Too was quite an interesting article, talking about how much corporate sponsors spend on the NCAA tournament, buying the expensive suites and most of the tickets available.  Which is bad for an ordinary person that might want to try to get tickets.

2.   After trying to do a word search for these books i finally decided to go a different route.  I clicked on eBooks at the top of the page, then browsed by category (Children's and Young Adult Fiction).  I refined the search by clicking on fairy tales, and there they were! Andrew Lang's Red.Violet, and Yellow Fairy Tales.  Fairy tales were alot different back then, that's for sure.  These are not all of them.  I then Googled Andrew Lang and found he actually did 12 of these books, published between 1889 and 1910.  Grandma sure liked them!! :-)