Thing 17: ELM Productivity Tools

17.1: Search Alert
After some initial confusion (I was worried about the new directions, but they were simple after all), I happily subscribed to a "Cake Recipes" feed through EBSCOhost MasterFile Premier. It's not at all professional, but a girl has to indulge occasionally ;) They aren't full text recipes, but I work in a library, for crying out loud, and I can find the magazines that they're in.
17.2: Ebsco Page Composer
When I tried to watch the video on Page Composer, it merely froze my computer. :( Being foolish but persistent, I attempted it again, with the same results. It didn't update Quick time or show me anything. So...
Later: I've spent a good healthy chunk of the evening making my website on Page Composer. I just had to wing it, but it went fine. My topic is Fairy Tales, and I divided the page into links to relevant book reviews, full-text articles and articles of interest that you'd need to track down in the actual periodical (many from Marvels and Tales). Maybe I'm missing something, but I found editing the page very tedious. To put my links in order, I had to move them up and down the page by arrow. The screen was so long (horizontally) that it was difficult to see what I was moving. So, editing took quite a while. I enjoyed creating the page though, and I saved it to my flash drive and sent it to my work email, private email and my boss (Hi Maureen!).