Lesson 5 -- Gale Virtual Reference Library

The GVRL is a bit more difficult for me to use.   I typed in spring festival in the main search and found 444 results.  I scrolled through those results and clicked on India, Scotland and Welsh.  You can find the festivals because they are high- lighted but you don’t always know if they happen in the spring without reading through a lot of information .  I liked the arrangement of the information about the Welsh festivals  the best in the Jr. Worldmark Encyclopedia because it listed six major holidays with the dates. 

When I searched for the festival foods I went to the Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of Foods and Recipes of the World, 2012.  There were 270 results for spring festival foods and 648 results for festival food.  At the bottom of the table of contests countries are listed or you can go to the right side and choose a country.  When you click on that you can find many recipes for festival foods.  I was a bit disappointed that there were no recipes from the Netherlands because I am Dutch.

I could not find anything specifically under a search of spring festival games but in looking for the festivals I thoughts I had seen some games. 

I spent some more time and found somewhere a whole list of festivals listed of the world in chronological order but it was only a list and you would not click on the festival itself.  That would have been great for this assignment!

#2  I looked up several topics.  Childhood obesity had no results for 2012 listings but then I checked the year 2011 and there were 16 articles.  I thought that was a hot topic so maybe it takes some time to put the new topics in the system.  My husband has been studying a bit about the world food supply.  I could not find anything under world food supply but found 2 results for 2012 under just food supply. Food allergies were my last search.  Again I could find nothing for 2012 but there were 49 results when you limited the year to 2011.  I would imagine that these topics would have more current information soon?