I am on a roll today. The librarian stops by a few minutes each hour while I am playing around with all the lessons, the library is a busy place today. She thinks some of the resources will take a little time to be comfortable with but likes World Book.
I am now at NetLibrary and researching "quilting". Of the 152 results, the first item was on quilting, the others had the word quilting in the text. I had to narrow down the search with the advanced options and had a smaller number. You could read the pages of the book right then to see if the selection would be of any help.
Constitution Day is the next search, wow 1067 results! To get the American constitution day I had to go through some titles. What amazed me is Japan was the third on the list and at the end of page one. The book I picked had information more fitting for high school or college research.
Western history became a dead end for me until I used the advanced setting and then I only had a two matches with Oklahoma. I then tried gold mining in black hills and found 44 items, again only with advanced search. Using advanced search gets you closer to the actual information a lot faster. I can be time consuming going through 502 matches found with a general search. I am also realizing why I really did not like term papers in school.
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Thanks for your comments, Deb. You may not have liked term papers in school, but we like to think that these resources make the process less painful. :) Thanks for reporting your search process and encouraging use of Advanced Search to home in on your topic.
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