Lesson 5 ProQuest

I chose lumbar stenosis for my topic as I suffer from it.  I chose to sort by most recent publication first and noted that the newest post is from 2012.  Either there is not a lot being published on the subject or ProQuest has not updated recently.  Nonetheless, there is a wide variety of interesting articles on lumbar stenosis including images.  The articles I skimmed through were quite lengthy and I did not find myself reading through an entire article.  Definitely thorough information is given. There are many options to narrowing your search that would make it possible to go right to the information pertaining to you.  The create alert would bring any new articles on lumbar stenosis right to my e-mail. The program would do the work for you and keep you on top of new articles.  ProQuest also has the option to be viewed in other languages. My Research gives you a file to save your information in. You can also create Widgets.

I also typed in the topic Jimmy Fallon as I enjoy him as a late night entertainer.  Found some very interesting articles.  I will be sharing this lesson with my older students.  I will also get out more information on the SD Electronic Library Resources to the parents.

I chose the Faith Library blog to view and have viewed on and off through this challenge.  This librarian in on top of the game in getting the lessons completed.  I also commented on Patti Mayer's blog.  It seems that I am not the only one amazed at the resources available to use totally free of charge.

Wow!  I could hardly believe my eyes as I clicked on the publication search and saw all the publications we can access.  Checking to see if the Oprah magazine was one of the publications, I find that the publication below it is "Obesity, Fitness and Wellness Week".  I am currently on a high protein, low carb diet as recommended by my physician.  I typed that topic in the search bar and came up with many articles and the one that caught my eye was "Weight Loss: Do Low-Carb Diets Damage the Kidneys"?  I read the article and was relieved to find out that the answer to that question is, no!

I searched librarian aide and did not find anything.  I then searched librarian and found two scholarly journal articles.  Both of the articles were old 1996 and 2009.  

Another great week of learning!