Monday, April 23, 2012

World Cat...The book title I entered was "Unbroken" as that is our next book club selection.  I discovered 88 records.  3074 libraries have the book.  The top library was Alexander Mitchell.  The call number is 940.54.  The author has also written "Sea Biscuit."  I clicked POW-US as a subject and found 1909 records.   The info I thought interesting was the geography listed, genre and awards the book had received.  I was also interested in CONTENTS.  It appears that some lines from the book are given there.  I am not sure of their significance but I also noticed them listed on other titles I checked on.  I will look for this info when I get to reading the selection.

When I checked on FirstSearch index I chose MedLine as we have several patrons that are students in the medical area and patrons that look up health information regularly.  I clicked on titles.  It showed a total of 917 pages for the 22902 titles.  I noticed many were foreign titles.  I search new england journal of medicine.  It shows as a title on the dex but I am not sure what to do from here regarding research???

OAIster: following instructions was easy.  Many types of media come up with a "South Dakota" search.  The first item I picked was Harney Peak.  It was to be a picture but I got a 404 page not found error.  I picked the Deadwood Stage of 1876 and was able to Access the item.  The quality of the photo here is very good.

I don't currently do anything with interlibrary loans but know that I can look here to find titles that patrons MIGHT be able to utilize for research and forward that info on to our manager.  One can never have TOO much knowledge or experience!

1 comment:

  1. Hi, Rhonda, you made some good discoveries about ways to use WorldCat. Medline is an index, not full-text, so the best you can do there is get a citation and then request the desired article via ILL. The Deadwood Stage photo sounds interesting! There's a lot of good stuff in OAIster, but be prepared for some deadends. The contributing insitutions don't necessarily keep their links maintained like they should. You're right--you can never have too much knowledge or experience! Thanks for your comments.

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