1. My search topic was landscaping. The books that came up with in this search had more to do with homebuilding, remodeling, or selling your home. I found that you need to click on full text. When looking at the index I did find 1 chapter that had some information on this subject although the book was published in 1999. I tried a couple of other searches and did not have the best of luck. I will have to play around with this.
2. When looking up Constitution Day I did get a couple of books relating to this subject, however if I just looked up constitution I think I got better results. I would recommend "AP US History" or The constitution of the United States of America. I found that you really had search through these books to find exactly what you were looking for.
3. In the search on Western history I choose Nebraska. I found a lot of information about Native Americans and the history relating to Native Americans. I also found some history about the plains. Not as much information as I thought there would be.
Hi, Shelly, thanks for giving this one a try. As the introductory information to this lesson indicates, this resource contains titles purchased by the State Library to supplement library non-fiction collections. Unfortunately, since that purchase, we have not been able to add to the collection. You would want to be careful when researching topics such as medicine or technology. It does take some playing around, and you are right in #2 that the more general "constitution" search gets better results. Another tip is to find 1 book that is what you want and click on that book's Subjects to find similar. For #3, we were trying to show that if you know that a publisher specializes in a certain subject, you could search just by publisher to retrieve useful results. Thanks for your comments!
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