Lesson 6

1.  The first visual search I did was for South Dakota.  I had 116 results which could be conveniently sorted, grouped, or displayed in different ways.  I think the "column" display is helpful because you can choose a different path at the various points of your results.  I also did a search on Crafts and then looked at some of the books in the juvenile literature section.  The display is clear and fairly easy to maneuver.  One thing I found frustrating, however, is that I had to constantly scroll down to get to the tools to turn to the next page.  Once I turned to the next page, the toolbar was again down below the bottom of my screen and I had to scroll down again.  Maybe I am not doing something right here, but I did find this frustrating.

2.  First I tried a basic search using the terms "fairy tales colors" (without quotes).  I got back 5 results, but none of these were what I was looking for.  Next I tried an advanced search and put "fairy tales" (without quotes) in the search term under the "subject" heading.  This gave me 19 results.  Scrolling through the list, I found "The Blue Fairy Book,  "The Red Fairy Book," "The Violet Fairy Book," and "The Yellow Fairy Book" all by Andrew Lang.  In order to double check that those were all, I then did another advanced search using Andrew Lang as the author and "fairy" for any term.  This brought 7 results:  the four listed above, one which was a repeat of the "Blue Fairy Book," and the other two of which were not part of this set.  So it appears that there are four books in this set that are in EbscoHost.