Second findings.

Burrows, M, 1955, The Dead Sea scrolls. With translations by the author, Viking Press, New York

It's now week three and time for my second topic I researched. This time I decided to explore ' The Dead Sea scrolls'. I actually found the title of this topic to be somewhat charismatic as strange as it sounds; I guess that's the main reason why I chose it.

For this subject I wanted to find a book relating to the Dead Sea scrolls as I had done a website in my previous post.

This time I went straight to the State Library of Victoria's website and searched their catalogue. When I searched their database I used these basic keywords; 'Dead Sea scrolls' hoping to get the best return results. I was provided with quite a few items regarding the Dead Sea scrolls, 130 to be exact. So I had a bit of a gander at the results that were sitting there staring at me and in time, I stumbled upon the book that will be ultimately become this week chosen one. 

This book had a title that caught my attention and differed from the others in the herd, it had translations. I thought because of this factor, that this books stands out from the rest. It also offers 435 pages some with maps and illustrations which I thought were a bonus. 

I also found another interesting YouTube video about the Dead Sea scrolls, it's just a short video with a basic description about them and a project that is happening. I used the same key words as I did for the search on the library's catalogue and that returned the best results. I have provided the address of the video and I have embedded it into my blog.
Google, The Dead Sea scrolls online, 23rd September, viewed 2nd September 2012, <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rYj_0foJYA>

This weeks difficulties I would say are only very minor; searching through 130 catalogue results and choosing the best item would probably had to have been the hardest thing this week. It was a good search result and the library's catalogue had ample amount of items relating to the Dead Sea scrolls. As for the YouTube video, the search was quite easy and the first result was the most eye catching. Having such a good outcome means that I did the search in a short amount of time without any problems. All in all not a hard time this week. I still have to have a bit of a peek at the Harvard style reference.

In conclusion, the book I chose is a great addition to these blog posts. Not only is it relevant to the subject, it also provides translations, illustrations and maps. 

• Week 2 was the website for clay tablets and a YouTube video regarding Gilgamesh tablets.
• Week 3 we have the book about The Dead Sea scrolls and a short YouTube video about them.