Lesson 5 -- Gale Virtual Reference Library

1.  Typing Spring Festivals brought up 444 results. The best resource for general information concerning holidays appeared to be the Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Holidays. Several results covered spring holidays from this resource.  Clicking on Holiday cooking under Subjects brought up many examples from the Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of Foods and Recipes of the World. It might be more useful to limit any further searching to these two resources.

2.  Using Advanced Search and limiting the publication year to within 2012 brought up 28,952 item results. On the left hand side nine titles were listed under Publication Title.  I think a faster way of finding the newest titles is to click on Title List and sort by Publication Date (Descending.

     I first chose to browse through Gale E-Commerce Sourcebook because my younger daughter’s job is as an e-commerce merchandise coordinator. This sourcebook appears to be a good overview of the expanding facet of business today.

    I then browsed the Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of Foods and Recipes of the World  (I was hungry and lunch was calling…). Because I am a proud Scandinavian, I looked for recipes from those countries. No Danish or Norwegian recipes, only Swedish. Pictures accompanied some of the recipes, and I appreciated the links to internet sources.