Wednesday, March 6, 2013

EBooks on EbscoHost


1.  I used Visual Search to find Alaska tourist information. I compared searching using the block and the column display and found I prefer the block format. Several books concerning travel or cruising to Alaska were available, however nothing newer than 2005. I found an interesting chapter in one of the books about the history of Fairbanks and interesting museums to visit there.

2.  Using the term “fairy tales” in the search box in both the basic search and visual search resulted in finding books by Andrew Lang: Blue, Violet, Red, and Yellow Fairy Books. For those you like seeing full records immediately plus books covers, Basic Search is the way to go. However, I preferred using Visual Search with the block display style. 

1 comment:

Fabric and Books said...

Thanks for the great post on Ebooks on Ebsco. It has been interesting to see what everyone is saying about the various ways to search in this resource--some people like the visual search, some don't.

-Julie