Sunday, August 1, 2010

Week #6-WorldCat

1. In WorldCat, besides keyword, you can also search by many different categories. Some of them are: Author, ISBN, Musical Composition, Material Type, Subject, Publisher, etc. There are 29 different ways to search.

2. In the Advanced Search using Title Phrase, I searched for Charlotte's Web. There are 2,710 libraries world wide that have this book. The top library in my search was Alexander Mitchell Library in Aberdeen, SD.

3. The Call Number for this books is LC: PZ7.W58277; Dewey: 813. When you click on any of the hyperlinks, you get more related information.

Other FirstSearch Indexes
The access button in the search results for the topic South Dakota gives you access to external websites that could give more information related to your topic. This would probably help to provide more information to the topic that you are searching for.

1 comment:

  1. Hi, Denise! Did you try OAIster and actually go into one of the sites? If not, please do and consider how your school might use it. Thanks for your report.

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