Thing 17

Thing 17 - ELM Productivity Tools

Gale - Infotrack Student Edition - I searched for "youth smoking" and got over 700 results. I couldn't set up an RSS feed in Google Reader. I kept getting the message "Oops... an error occurred, please try again in a couple of minutes.

EBSCO - Academic Search Premier - Although it was pretty easy to generate a web page but I think many of our patrons would be frustrated with additional steps required to retrieve the information.

ProQuest - This is really easy to set up. It's great for sending information to patrons since they can access the information at at home and don't have to pay for print out at the library. This is really a useful tool.

NetLibrary - I've tried to view the book a couple of times in the last 2 days and each time I get an error message "we're sorry, your library's copies of the econtent are currently in use"

I work in a public library and I can't think of a situation that I will use these tools to collaborate with colleagues, but patrons could really benefit from the features in ProQuest.