Lesson 8

World Cat
There are ALOT of ways to search besides keywords. You could know little or a lot about a book and search to find results.

I searched World Cat for A Cedar Cove Christmas, the first book that got me introduce to Cedar Cove series by Debbie Macomber. The first two entries had the same title; the first entry showed the book was available at 2,278 libraries worldwide, and the 2nd entry, same book, showed 1,084 libraries worldwide!  I clicked on the libraries worldwide link and the first library that showed was the Alexander Mitchell Library right here in Aberdeen!  There are 3 different types of call numbers for this book listed. I will give the Dewey call number because most libraries in our region use this type: 813.54. Other things you can click on besides the author and subject would be descriptors of the book, then more books with similar descriptors come up, and genre/form, so more books with the same genre come up. I feel this is really neat because I love a certain author's series then have a hard time finding books like it, now I can use this and find things that meet what I like!

OAIster
I searched South Dakota like we were told too. I clicked on the Annual report with the author of SD Dept of Social Services. I couldn't "access" it like it said to do. There is only one library world wide that has the report and that is the South Dakota State Library. I was then viewing the page with all the information on it and it showed I could "access" it through a website because it is an online document. I clicked on the first access link and it took me to another database to search, I clicked the second and it gave me a list of the reports it was referring to. It was rather confusing, but nice to know that we have access to these kinds of reports!

As for other blogs....
I clicked EVERY link under the basic challenge and noone had completed this one yet... I guess I am a go getter getting this done on a Monday.... I will check back later to see what everyone else has come up with.