Lesson 5 NetLibrary

In searching my topic of choice, I chose "Continental Congress." Everything that contained the word, continental came up, from "Continental Philosophy" to "Continental Divide" and "Continental Drift." It wasn't until #25-28 when I finally got to the "Continental Congress."
Then I put in "Revolutionary War," and all sorts of revolutions came up, even when sorted by title, and then very few had the words "revolutionary war" in the title. So I went back to "Continental Congress," where I had at least found some things. I created an account and saved several books that looked very helpful to an entire unit about the Revolutionary War period.

When researching "Constitution Day," nothing came up, so I just put in "Constitution." I found information about the Bill of Rights,m the articles of the Constitution, the Constitution of the Confederate States, and a Companion to the Constitution. I saved all of those, but I also found a modern day interpretation, which I felt was not appropriate to my students' age-group because it discussed abortion in much of it. The Companion to the Constitution was especially helpful because it was an interpretation put out by Brigham Young University.

When researching western history, I entered "Nebraska." First fictional books by Willa Cather were listed as well as other fiction. Much of the rest dealt with Native American concerns, which I will keep in mind when I supplement my westward expansion unit. The Lewis and Clark book was scrambled.

I do not think I will use NetLibrary as much as Proquest, GVRL, SIRS, or Worldbook because it wasn't as user-friendly. I may use it, however, if other information runs dry for some topics, but I will have to do more work before assigning students to that site. It was helpful for the details concerning the Constitution, so I can see a few places where it might be helpful.