Friday, February 13, 2009

Challenge #3 GVRL

Part 1. I was curious, so I looked at the oldest title in the GVRL collection - The International Encyclopedia of Social Sciences from 1968. On the public catalog, I found I could actually drill down to an actual encyclopedia entry - very cool! I looked at the entry for "Aesthetics". I tried a General Keyword Search for the word "Aesthetics" and the Gale Reference did not come up. I wonder if this only works for Tables of contents, not encyclopedic formats. It's too bad that the Print and download links are visible on the public catalogs inside the library. These are misleading. Customers do not understand why they can do things on some computers and not on others. IMHO, they should be able to do everything on every computer, with the exception of scanning. I know I am probably in the minority on this, but there you go!

When I browsed the title list from the website, I found that there is indeed a new edition of The International Encyclopedia of Social Sciences that was just published in 2008. I wonder why they haven't deleted, (or "weeded" if you will) the older edition. I guess some challenges never really go away!

Part 2. I sent the email and printed the confirmation if it is needed. That is a nice feature!

Part 3. Citation in MLA format was sent via email.

Part 4. This did not work for the 1968 edition, but did for the 2008 edition. Nice feature!

Part 5. I looked at the review for the movie "inside Moves" and both are identical as far as I can tell.

I hope this fulfills the requirement for this challenge.