Lesson 6 Challenge

The title I have recently used Novelist for is Karen Slaughter's Pretty Girls. This is the title we hope to use for our Adult Summer Reading selection so this is a good time to look at it's appeal factors overall.

I am surprised by some of the titles the appeal factors revealed. When I searched based on plot-driven, fast-paced, stalkers as my terms I got Catherine Coulter's Power Play and Sara Shepard's Pretty Little Liars.

When I searched suspense stories, fast-paced, murderers, stalkers as my terms I got Mary Higgins Clark's On the Street Where You Live and Peter Deutermann's Nightwalkers.

Lesson 5 Challenge

I have used LearningExpress Library for many years especially for ASVAB test prep which is big in our service area. 

It is a great resource to be aware of but there are limitations such as the Microsoft applications are only for 2007 versions and the licensing exams can sometimes be 2 years or older. I often doublecheck with current books and test versions before encouraging patrons to utilize the PDFs and test prep material. 

Lesson 4 Challenge 2

How many articles are in the May 2001 issue?
There are 29 articles in May 2001 issue.

Search for Consumer Reports volume 80, issue 9. How many articles are retrieved? 
There are 26 articles in September 2015 Vol. 80 Issue 9

Lesson 4: Challenge 1

Find and open the article titled “The Right Phone for You” in the results list. Select the version PDF. Click on the email option on the left of the page, enter your email address and mysapl11.5@gmail.com, in the To Field. For Subject put your full name and your location.
Done and done


Search for the June 2014 Consumer Reports issue by using the “Publication” and “Published Date” limiters. How many articles are there in this issue?
I found 36 articles

Exercise 3: Part 2: Marketing Tools

I am a Programming Librarian who enjoys Marketing. The more eye popping and catchy the better. Having said this, I use the template often and have found it easy to plug images from Thinkstock usually. I am going to post a flyer I am drafting right now. 

I have submitted a request to our graphics department for another image but found this one on Creative Commons for now.