Lesson 6 Challenge

Recently, I've enjoyed sharing The Bus is for Us! by Michael Rosen during story times. Because the writing style is spare and the pictures are so large, the story moves along quickly and is perfect for engaging a group of wiggly toddlers or preschoolers. When I found this title on Novelist, I selected "spare" writing style and "picture books for children" as my appeal factors and found another book that I'm looking forward to investigating: A Kitten Tale by Eric Rohmann, which received several starred reviews. Looks promising!

Some of my favorite search limiters available through Novelist are:

• Author's cultural identity
• Age group of audience
• Starred reviews
• SAPL collection

 

Lesson 5 Challenge

I found the Learning Express Library a bit strange to navigate at first. It felt kind of clunky and dated. When asked to choose a tutorial to take, I saw a bit more clearly the benefit of this resource. I chose the basic math tutorial and opted to take the pre-test. I immediately felt humbled and glad to know that we, the math-challenged public, can take advantage of the tutorial to brush up on skills long forgotten. I especially like that there are practice questions after each lesson, so that you can assess your progress as you go.

Lesson 4: Challenge 2

1. How many articles are in the May 2001 issue? 29
2. Search for Consumer Reports volume 80, issue 9. How many articles are retrieved? 26

Lesson 4: Challenge 1

Task:
Search for the June 2014 Consumer Reports issue by using the “Publications” and  the “Published Date” limiters. How many articles are there in this issue?

Findings:
There are 46 documents in that issue. Twenty-three of them are articles.

Lesson 3 Challenge

I like Canva! I think it could definitely be useful in promoting our programming, in this case at a campus where we will be offering different events for several days in a row. This would be printed large-scale for display, in addition to a flyer with more information that will be distributed.

 

Lesson 2 Challenge

What would I do if....
A customer shows me a “too good to be true” email about getting free money from Nigeria, and asks me to help them seal the deal with their banking information.

Dear patron,
Please understand that I can not advise you regarding what to do with your emails. How you proceed is entirely up to you, but the email you are describing sounds like a very common email scam.  It is possible that those who mailed it to you are phishing for your personal information to use for malicious purposes. There is an online resource at https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0002l-nigerian-email-scam that you might find helpful. I wish you the best!