Gale Virtual Reference Library
1. Article by Table of Contents:
The College Blue Book - South Dakota
This listed the colleges in South Dakota, a description of the school - state supported, coed, when founded etc. and entrance requirements. This would be a great benefit for parents and students doing a compare and contrast for in-state schools. One would walk away knowing the physical and population size of the school and community, and student to faculty ratio. Good information for any one interested in going to or returning to school.
2. I used your examples zinc and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
zinc - I typed foods containing zinc in the search box - no results. After a few minutes fumbling through different zinc/food combinations I just typed zinc. Several (20 or so titles) came up. Nothing really about food, but several interesting books - one on ADHD pertaining to zinc and another pertaining more to the topic - Mineral Deficiency. Still, I did not find a list specific foods containing zinc.
I enjoyed The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn search much more. The student could chose specific literary themes to discuss in his/her project such as race and prejudice. Themes of the American Dream, the rise of censorship and a more obvious one, slavery. This would be a great help to students doing a project. It would help to focus the project on one or two important issues or discussions.
Super example of using the College Blue Book--It is so nice to have all the information in a uniformly available source rather than seeking it on various college websites which are sometimes really hard to navigate!
ReplyDeleteSorry the zinc search wasn't productive for you. The basic search for zinc brings up
820 articles--however, they are sorted by relevancy. The second article is from the Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health--which is a health resource geared towards beginning medical field students so it is perfect for the general patron. In that article it talks about zinc and what it does and towards the end there is a paragraph on the natural sources of zinc.
To further reduce the results, you can search within results for "food" and then there are 460 results with the top two being the most relevant.
Hope this helps!
Julie