1. I looked up two cities --Wessington Springs South Dakota and Spanaway Washington, and the Pugent Sound. At first it looked like mainly outdated police reports, scientific reports having to do with enviromental studies, etc., and governmental issues. As I looked further down the numbered items in the Spanaway search "the Current Hazardous Sites List and past lists" came up (from the US Fed News Service, Including US State News) -- something I had never thought about looking up. The more a person looks the more you find.
1a. I checked the Cville Library blog search in ProQuest on Huntington’s disease. I liked the search process in limiting the search to find out specific information. It gave me the idea to check different diseases and medical problems.
I then looked up some X-linked genetic diseases --the results would be of interest to someone looking up research studies. When typing in a search item the automatic recommended search terms was very helpful, as Cville Library had mentioned.
2. In "The Horn Book Magazine" I looked up iPad apps with 4 results. I found several recommended apps such as Freight Train (Curious Puppy) by Donald Crews and Pop-Out! The Tale of Peter Rabbit (Loud Crow Interactive) by Beatrix. Initially I was disappointed with no illustrations until I clicked on full text, nice colored pictures! Clicking on the right side bar "see similar documents" gave more article options.
You made some good finds, grkids8! We like ProQuest for its breadth of material--popular, trade, and scholarly. It's very multi-purpose. We also think ProQuest is a great resource for professional reading because of its cover-to-cover issues of professional journals--for FREE! Thanks for your comments.
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