WorldCat

PART 1:

1. I decided to start with a basic search to see how this type of search worked.  I searched for the author Caron Levis.  When I typed in her name, nothing came up.  So I clicked on the question mark next to the search bar.  Here I was given the suggestion to put the author’s name in quotation marks.  When I did that, the book I was looking for by Caron Levis came up.  Actually, five records for this book exist.  I was given the option of finding libraries that own this book.  When I clicked on this feature, local libraries popped up first.  I discovered that I could get this book through the Siouxland Library system in Sioux Falls.

 
After doing the basic search, I decided to try the advanced search.  I loved all the options for narrowing down the search.  I knew that the 8^th grade teachers are currently studying westward expansion.  So I did a search on westward expansion and narrowed down the search to United States.  I also wanted to find books that would be useful for 8^th grade, so I clicked on juvenile literature and just books.  This was such a good way to find books that I can suggest for the 8^th grade teachers.  I could have kept looking for a long time at all the choices that popped up!  Loved this!

2. Book Search:          

            - Spring is Here

            - 59 Records

            - Libraries Worldwide – 1093

            - Top Library – Madison Public Library

3. Call # - E Hillenbrand

    When clicking on the author’s name, I found several titles available by this author.

    When clicking on subject, I found several titles related to the topic of “spring”.   Just recently I was looking for books about spring for my elementary students and feel that this link would have been helpful in assisting me in my search. 

PART 2:

The first document that I looked at on OAIster was a document about Indian Education.  It was a scanned document about Indian Education in South Dakota.  It was only four pages long.  I looked at a second document called “Housing: What you Need to Know”.  This document was printed from the Department of Labor and Regulations.  This feature gives a lot of information, but I think I would need to work with it more to get comfortable using it.