Thursday, May 3, 2012

WorldCat

I have used WorldCat in my cataloging job here at the Hot Springs Public Library.  It has been a very useful tool in finding out Dewey Decimal numbers for books that I'm not sure of.  Today, for the challenge, I typed "Black Beauty" in as a title with Anna Sewell being the author.  It gave me 1,542 initial results with 982 libraries worldwide. The top library was Black Hills State University.  Here at the Hot Springs Library, we always try to access our materials from the State Library first.  The call number for this item was juvenile fiction.  When doing further research on Anna Sewell as an author, to my surprise she hasn't written many more items.  She authored  "Black Beauty His Groom and Companions" and "Black Beauty the Autobiography of a Horse".  I am anxious to learn more about the facets of WorldCat to help process Interlibrary loan requests.
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  1. Jane Heitman HealyMay 3, 2012 at 9:35 AM

    Thanks for your work in WorldCat. We hope you have seen some new ways to use this old "friend." We look forward to your comments on Discovery Exercise #2 about OAIster in this lesson.

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