Yep. I'm skipping over lesson 7 which has convinced me that I cannot find relevant topics that EBSCO covers. I will come back to it at a later time.
Lesson 8, World Cat.
After clicking the Advanced Search Screen tab on the 2nd toolbar, I searched for Mark Twain. I selected keyword author, defining it to personal name. I wondered if I would come up empty, since his name is actually Samuel Clemens. Wow. 31,194 records in 2880 libraries world wide. 18,267 in English.
Next I went back and chose the title search and clicked on the limiter for Books. I searched for Huckleberry Finn. Results:6511 records, 4339 of which are in English. The first item was The Oxford book of American Light Verse by William Harmon. When I clicked on the author I got a list of 91 books. When I clicked on American Poetry in the Descriptor list under the subject heading there were 101498 records, of which 70736 were books. I found the call numbers are LC:PS586 and Dewey:811/.07. 2772 libraries have this book, the top library is Alexander Mitchell Library.
This reminds me that there is a Mark Twain book that I was interested in reading- something about a suitcase? So many books, so little time.
I added OAIster to the databases I searched. Searching with South Dakota as a keyword I found 138225 records in OIAster and 125027 with World Cat. I think this could be valuable site for students needing facts and statistics for debates and speeches.
Hi, Lynda, sorry for your frustration with Lesson 7. Let us know if we can help you! Thanks for your work on Lesson 8. This is a resource that all library workers should know about! WorldCat has a lot to offer. You are right about OAIster being for researchers. I will draw your attention to Lesson 8, Part 3, CAMIO and the Discovery Exercise 3. Try it, you'll like it! Thanks for your work here, Lynda!
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