Thing 17

Elm Productivity
Here is a page I made in EBSCOhost. The background of the page isn't showing but the searches and search result are. I saved the page to my hard drive and then looked at the source html and copied it into this post. I had to make most of the text bigger so that it would show up in the post on the blog and I couldn't see it in the preview mode (even when text made larger to "normal" size) on the blog but could see it in the compose mode.

Edited: the link to the search doesn't work right. It searches fire not fire fighters!!! And there are tons of results. The fire fighter search with the limits I put on it had 52 results!

Also, the link to the help for RSS feeds doesn't show any text.

	Searches to pay attention to Link to a search done 4/1/08, fire fighters keyword, limit full text, March through April 2008 to search EBSCO Megafile How to set up RSS feeds alerts etc These articles were from a search on fire fighting, January to April 2008, Megafile, full text. Many articles in search were full text newspapers. Watch out for this in MegaFile Apparatus Specifications: Avoiding the Pitfalls. (cover story) By: Adams, Bill. Fire Engineering, Feb2008, Vol. 161 Issue 2, p79-84, 6p; (AN 30104089) Fire fighting small part of what department does By: Shaner, Cassie. Dominion Post, The (Morgantown, WV), 01/06/2008; (AN 2W62W61327255413) Situation Awareness. By: Brunacini, Alan. Fire Engineering, Feb2008, Vol. 161 Issue 2, p140-140, 1p; (AN 30104102) Support Beams. By: Cavette, Chris. Fire Chief, Jan2008, Vol. 52 Issue 1, p76-80, 4p; (AN 30012086) THE FIRE BIRDS. By: Hoffman, Carl. Popular Mechanics, Feb2008, Vol. 185 Issue 2, p70-77, 8p, 5c; (AN 30030074)
I use the ELM databases a lot. I could spend more time refamiliarizing myself with all the productivity tools in ProQuest and others. I teach people how to use Elm Databases on our library website, and how to use our NetLibrary collection on a regular basis, including making notes and setting up an account. Our NetLibrary collection is cataloged and into our online catalog. We have a search option for excluding Netlibrary (all EXCEPT ebooks) and I also teach users how to search only ebooks (keyword + the word netlibrary). I hope to eventually make some tutorials specifically for our users using Captivate, which we just got. We are now also telling folks that you can go to http://www.elm4you.org/ and if they are coming in from a computer with a Minnesota IP, they can get into the databases without a library card or password. This is very useful for some!!! We have participated in many Minitex webinars and workshops and they all have been very useful. Yay Minitex!!!!