SCENARIO 1: Fred's group project in an American history course involves collecting resources about efforts to abolish slavery before the Civil War. Fred's task for the group is to locate fulltext ebooks (available to Ivy Tech students) about this topic in general and about abolitionist John Brown in particular.

Try this search that Fred did in IvyCat:: Search terms: abolition slavery | (all of these) | keyword anywhere

After the "hits" list appeared, Fred did a Post Limits (Electronic Books) to return only ebooks.

(Copy and paste the questions and add your answers into the email that you are to send to your instructor for Scenario 2.)


1) How many ebooks about the abolition of slavery did Fred find with this search?



2) Were any of these ebooks biographies of John Brown?

How might Fred search for ebooks in IvyCat that focus upon the abolitionist John Brown?

Fred tried this search: First, he set limits to "Electronic Books" before he began his search. Then he used:

Search terms: John Brown | (all of these) | Subject

3) How many ebooks did Fred find in IvyCat with this search?

4) Would changing the "Search in" choice from Subject to Title make a difference in the number of "hits"?

1) Find the record of this ebook in IvyCat.

2) Describe the search you used to find this ebook. (That is, what were your search terms and search type?)

3) Email the record of this ebook to yourself using the email feature at the bottom of the record page.

4) After you receive the record information in your email, forward this email to your instructor. In this email that you forward to your instructor, include the questions and your answers for Scenario 1 and Question #2 in Scenario 2.