Lesson 5

1.  To help the organization which is sponsoring an event with the theme, "Spring Holidays Around the World," I first went to the subject area of "Multicultural Studies."  Here I typed in the search terms "spring festivals" and then went to the publication titled, "Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures."  I found 55 results pertaining to different peoples of the world.  Clicking on each result takes you to the article which tells about the holidays, foods, games and pastimes, and traditions of each people group.  Then I tried the subject area of "Nation and World" and found that there is the "Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of Foods and Recipes of the World" which appears to have a section for each country concerning their "Food for Religious and Holiday Celebrations."  There is also the "Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Holidays."  Both of these would be good sources of information for this organization to peruse.

2.  In the Advanced Search section I selected the button for "within" and then chose the year of 2012.  This gave me 28,952 results.  Then I sorted these by publication date, but I can't tell whether the newest is first or the oldest of 2012. It appears that these 28,000+ results are individual articles, not publication titles.  So, I tried a different approach and clicked on the "Title List" tab and then displayed them by "Publication Date (descending)."   This appears to be more of the type of listing I wanted, with the 2012 publications listed first.  I looked at the "U*X*L American Decades" book (for 2000-2009) and perused the chronology of the 2000s a bit.  I also browsed quickly through a couple of the volumes of the "Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of Foods and Recipes of the World" (since I'm always interested in finding good recipes!).