First, I searched Ross, Kathy and got several of her books. I was able to bring up several projects for spring, which teachers could project on screens for class craft time. I then searched for other children's authors with less luck: Henkes, Kevin and Seuss, Dr. and Bemelmans brought only scholarly works mentioning these authors. I was hoping to find children's books we could display for reading lessons, etc. I tried searching by title (Cat in the Hat; Madeline and the Bad Hat; Curious George) but did not get links to any children's books. Maybe I have to go somewhere else within the NetLibrary.
Searching "fitness", the very first book that came up seemed to me to be the option I would recommend to the exercise instructor. It was Your Best Body Ever by Anita Goa. The blurb indicated that it was aimed at people looking to reinvigorate their exercise routines; it offered a mix of yoga, strength training and aerobic exercises on each of three fitness levels; and it had some photographs and illustrations (though it was pretty weak in that area.) After flipping through a number of pages, I got a copyright warning box that instructed me to wait 5 seconds before going on. I did, and the ebook seemed to continue to work after the copyright warning as it had before.
I got 88 findings when I used Advanced Search and entered Nebraska in the Publisher box. Everything appeared to be published by some version of the University of Nebraska Press, but not everything was related to western history. So I went back to Advanced Search and entered "history" as a keyword AND Nebraska as Publisher. The hit list decreased to 37, but still not all of the books were about western history (e.g., Origins of the Final Solution which is about the holocaust but published by University of Nebraska Press.) I tried entering "western history" as the keyword AND Nebraska as Publisher. Too much: I got no results. So I would have to settle for letting the patron sort through the list of 37 on his or her own.
I have a few questions about this site: 1) Why does a person have to register a separate email account to use this resource? It bothers me because it seems like someone could track an individual's name with the resources they're reading. I think that violates a user's right to privacy. 2) Is there a section of NetLibrary that offers picture-book and easy nonfiction titles for download? 3) Can the ebooks from NetLibrary be downloaded (or checked out) to a reading device like iPad or Kindle?
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Hi, Avid. NetLibrary has some good stuff, but not everything you want in the way you want it. Just like the rest of life! :) To answer your questions: 1)Creating a NetLibrary account is not required unless you want to use the "Favorites and Notes" feature. 2)If you do a subject search "Juvenile literature," you will get many results, mostly excellent non-fiction, for kids. NetLibrary also has some education-related books. Try subjects: Learning, Elementary Education, Classroom Management, Curriculum Planning, or a full-text search of the name of a content area + teaching. The State Library subscription does not contain picture books. 3) No, sorry, NetLibrary books can only be read on the screen. Thanks for your thorough review of this resource.
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