LESSON 7- EBOOKS ON EBSCO

QUESTION 1
I decided just to do a search for South Dakota because I was curious how many historical books would come up.  It turned out to be a pretty broad search because I got 111 hits and not all of them were very relevant.  There were many legal books that were interesting and there were also guides and historical books.  The books are a little hard to read on the computer screen, but they are pretty easy to use.

The one thing that really concerned me as I was looking through the results was the age of materials.  I realized going in that everything was copyrighted before 2006 which is fine.  "Historical Atlas of the Outlaw West" from 1985 is no problem but there were lots of resource and sourcebooks from the 1990's.  How many of those addresses are still current?  "Century 21 Guide to Choosing Your Mortgage" from 1996; "Careers for Computer Buffs & other Technological Types" from 1998; all of these would have been weeded if they were in our physical collection because those areas have changed so much.

QUESTION 2
I did a search for United States constitution which brought up 102 hits including "Adventure Guide to Michigan" so I used the subject listing to limit my search to Constitutional amendments, history and law.  This gave me 7 hits: "The American Republic: Constitution, Tendencies and Destiny", "The Constitution of the United States", "The Federalist, Notes", "Our Elusive Constitution: Silences Paradoxes, Priorities", "Representing Popular Sovereignty: The Constitution in American Political Culture", "The Right to Religious Liberty: The Basic ACLU Guide to Religious Rights", and "The United States Bill of Rights : The Ten Original Amendments to the Constitution of the United States Passed by Congress September 25, 1789, Ratified December 15, 1791".

QUESTION 3
I used Nebraska as my search term and it brought up 85 results.  Everything appears to be published by the University of Nebraska Press.  Most of the titles are relevant to Western history.  There are many titles relating to Native Americans.  A couple of the books were related European history (literary or World War II), but overall it was a very good search.