I am having much difficulty with this particular assignment. I accessed Archive Grid via the state library website and searched on the sitting bull autograph card. I found," Sitting Bull autograph card (18_) Sitting Bull 1834?-1890 autograph card and envelope for card." This was not a link however and I could not access any more information. I tried to search on Monet and found three listings; Institutional Files, Exhibitions. for Monet's London: Artists' reflections on the Thames 1859-1914, Monet and his contemporaries, and Monet and the Mediterranean. All of these were from the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Department of Painting and Sculpture. Once again, no links, just a listing of items.
As for the CAMIO part of the assignment I also accessed it via the State Library page but I couldn't get any further than the home page. I couldn't log in with either my own library card or the Wall Library card. Is there another authorization and password I am supposed to be using?
I tried both of these a couple of times with the same results - what am I doing wrong?
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
WorldCat
On the advanced search page for WorldCat there appears to be 30 different ways to search including: access search, accession #, 6 ways to search by author, language phrase, material type, material type phrase, musical composition, musical composition phrase, notes/comments, publisher, publisher location, standard number, ISBN, ISSN, 7 ways to search by subject, and title phrase and series title. Whew!
For the first search I typed in The Hunger Games. I got 104 results. Under item 1, there were 5042 libraries worldwide that had that item. The top library in the list was Alexander Mitchell Library. I noticed that the libraries listed seemed to be in South Dakota. The call number for the first item was PZ7.C6837 and PS 3603.04558 the Dewey classification was FIC. The author has written the sequel books Catching Fire and Mockingjay and also the 5 books in the Gregor the Overlander Series. I clicked on the subject "Survival - Juvenile Fiction" and got a lengthy list that included Catching Fire, Mockingjay, and Julie of the Wolves. Other information in the record included almost everything you could think of. There was the year, the physical description of the book, the ISBN, the genre, awards, language, series, descriptors, and even the vendor information. In short, it had everything you woud expect to see in a catalogue record and more!
In OAIster the record I chose was the "Effects of Maintenance Treatments on Asphalt, Concrete Pavement Management". (A fascinating topic if ever there was one!) It appeared to be a document prepared by the SDDOT about roads. There were two links next to access, WorldCat and SDDOT. Unfortunately, when I clicked on WorldCat a message popped up that said, "item requested cannot be found". It clarified that items were added or updated daily and I may need to try my request later although it did add that the item may have been deleted or moved. I gave it a second chance and got the same error message. Well, no problem, my item had two access links so I tried the other one from SDDOT. This one said, "Specified request cannot be executed from current applicant pool". So I suppose the mysteries of asphalt and concrete road maintenance will remain a mystery, at least to me. I was hoping for the full text of the document and assume that is what one would find under other records.
I checked many of my fellow blogger's posts and found that no one had quite gotten to the WorldCat assignment yet. It must be a busy week in libraryland.
For the first search I typed in The Hunger Games. I got 104 results. Under item 1, there were 5042 libraries worldwide that had that item. The top library in the list was Alexander Mitchell Library. I noticed that the libraries listed seemed to be in South Dakota. The call number for the first item was PZ7.C6837 and PS 3603.04558 the Dewey classification was FIC. The author has written the sequel books Catching Fire and Mockingjay and also the 5 books in the Gregor the Overlander Series. I clicked on the subject "Survival - Juvenile Fiction" and got a lengthy list that included Catching Fire, Mockingjay, and Julie of the Wolves. Other information in the record included almost everything you could think of. There was the year, the physical description of the book, the ISBN, the genre, awards, language, series, descriptors, and even the vendor information. In short, it had everything you woud expect to see in a catalogue record and more!
In OAIster the record I chose was the "Effects of Maintenance Treatments on Asphalt, Concrete Pavement Management". (A fascinating topic if ever there was one!) It appeared to be a document prepared by the SDDOT about roads. There were two links next to access, WorldCat and SDDOT. Unfortunately, when I clicked on WorldCat a message popped up that said, "item requested cannot be found". It clarified that items were added or updated daily and I may need to try my request later although it did add that the item may have been deleted or moved. I gave it a second chance and got the same error message. Well, no problem, my item had two access links so I tried the other one from SDDOT. This one said, "Specified request cannot be executed from current applicant pool". So I suppose the mysteries of asphalt and concrete road maintenance will remain a mystery, at least to me. I was hoping for the full text of the document and assume that is what one would find under other records.
I checked many of my fellow blogger's posts and found that no one had quite gotten to the WorldCat assignment yet. It must be a busy week in libraryland.
Monday, February 13, 2012
EBSCOhost
I went to the clinic today because I've been feeling punky for about a week and a half - diagnosis - a virus. Since I was in a virus kind of mood I decided to do my search on holistic remedies for viruses. I restricted my search to ebooks and medical-type databases. The search returned 4 entries; 3 ebooks - Medically Speaking: A Dictionary of Quotations on Dentistry, Medicine, and Nursing; Encyclopedia of Natural Pet Care; and Supercharging Your Immunity. I also got one article from the Alternative Healthwatch Database - Toward a Unified Theory of Homeopathy and Coventional Medicine. The Dictionary of Quotations seemed of limited value in making me feel better, so I ignored that entry. The Natural pet care was interesting - might want to look at that later since I have many assorted animals, but hardly useful for helping people with viruses. Supercharge Your Immunity seemed like my best bet so I looked at that resource. It was an ebook that seemed interesting but was frankly impossible to read on screen because the type was so small. I tried a few different things but was unable to zoom in or otherwise increase the font size. Probabaly some easy solution but at this point I must say it escapes me. The book seemed like what I was looking for (the little of it that I could read). Perhaps downloading the ebook might make for more options when it comes to increasing the font size. I glanced at the article to see a different entry/format but it too had incredibly small type. The article seemed a bit more academic though.
A search on Constitution Day in ebooks netted many sources. I thought the best bets for high school students were the Illustrated Dictionary of Constitutional Concepts and AP US History. Younger students might be better served by Colonies and Revolution, a junior non-fiction ebook, which was definitely easier to read.
My advanced search of western history and Oklahoma turned up 40 results. As a side note, I couldn't find PB publisher in select a field - the only options were TX-all text, AU-author, TI-title, SU-subject, SO-source, AB-abstract, and IS-ISSN (am I looking in the wrong place?). In my search there were 23 ebooks, 11 ERIC records, and 6 from Healthsource Nursing/Academic Edition. There were reasonable results about the American West, an article about adult education in the state of Oklahoma, and many resources on Native Americans from Oklahoma. Perhaps the oddest result was an ERIC resource on Japan. I clicked on it to see why it was included and found that corporate source for the article was the Oklahoma State Department of Education, Oklahoma City. Probably a good idea to narrow your search if at all possible.
A search on Constitution Day in ebooks netted many sources. I thought the best bets for high school students were the Illustrated Dictionary of Constitutional Concepts and AP US History. Younger students might be better served by Colonies and Revolution, a junior non-fiction ebook, which was definitely easier to read.
My advanced search of western history and Oklahoma turned up 40 results. As a side note, I couldn't find PB publisher in select a field - the only options were TX-all text, AU-author, TI-title, SU-subject, SO-source, AB-abstract, and IS-ISSN (am I looking in the wrong place?). In my search there were 23 ebooks, 11 ERIC records, and 6 from Healthsource Nursing/Academic Edition. There were reasonable results about the American West, an article about adult education in the state of Oklahoma, and many resources on Native Americans from Oklahoma. Perhaps the oddest result was an ERIC resource on Japan. I clicked on it to see why it was included and found that corporate source for the article was the Oklahoma State Department of Education, Oklahoma City. Probably a good idea to narrow your search if at all possible.
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Gale Virtual Reference Library
In looking through the title list, I found an intriguing entry titled Literature and Its Times: Profiles of 300 Notable Literary Works and the Historical Events that Influenced Them. In clicking on this link, I was able to choose from a lengthy list of classic books, things like Shakespeare and the Iliad and Odyssey. I chose to read about The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. This was a very long entry with many parts. The entry had the basics like what the book was, a brief synopsis, and about the author. It followed up with a longer section on events in history at the time the short story took place. It delved into such esoteric subjects as education at the time, witches, ghosts and goblins, and the Revolutionary War. Then there was a larger section exploring the story in much more detail including the events in history at the time the story was written. The article concluded with a bibliography for more information, and links to other articles from index terms found within this one. I definitely learned something about the story and especially its time period. Quite interesting, could be very useful if doing a report on one of the included stories. The listen feature also worked well.
In using the search box I decided to type in pregnancy because I had a young patron ask me today about any resources we had on pregnancy. The results from that admittedly broad topic included many pages of articles. I got everything from problems in pregnancy like stillbirth, SIDS, fetal alcohol syndrome, miscarriage, drugs, etc., to contraception and Roe vs Wade. I suppose you could narrow it down, but I decided to have a look at what seemed to be more general resources. I looked at lactation in the Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health. This resource seemed quite information dense, somewhat difficult to read for my patron of today, with no pictures and lots of big words. I probably wouldn't recommend this particular article to her. Next I tried the Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health on the subject of fetal development. This one had pictures, but still seemed somewhat technical with plenty of big words. It did have some links. The last one I tried was the Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine on the subject of amniocentesis. This particular article seemed easier to read and had an interesting picture. Of all the ones I looked at this seemed the most approachable. I should probably explore more topics in that resource to see if they all had the same feel. The listen feature also seemed to work well in this area. It helped with saying the words which some might find daunting.
Lastly I looked around at other blogs. I had a hard time finding ones that had already done Gale. I finally found Annie's Ideas and SD Library Challenge. They both seemed to have similar experiences. I liked SD Library Challenge's idea of listening with your eyes closed. Hadn't thought of that but it would be a great way of really listening.
In using the search box I decided to type in pregnancy because I had a young patron ask me today about any resources we had on pregnancy. The results from that admittedly broad topic included many pages of articles. I got everything from problems in pregnancy like stillbirth, SIDS, fetal alcohol syndrome, miscarriage, drugs, etc., to contraception and Roe vs Wade. I suppose you could narrow it down, but I decided to have a look at what seemed to be more general resources. I looked at lactation in the Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health. This resource seemed quite information dense, somewhat difficult to read for my patron of today, with no pictures and lots of big words. I probably wouldn't recommend this particular article to her. Next I tried the Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health on the subject of fetal development. This one had pictures, but still seemed somewhat technical with plenty of big words. It did have some links. The last one I tried was the Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine on the subject of amniocentesis. This particular article seemed easier to read and had an interesting picture. Of all the ones I looked at this seemed the most approachable. I should probably explore more topics in that resource to see if they all had the same feel. The listen feature also seemed to work well in this area. It helped with saying the words which some might find daunting.
Lastly I looked around at other blogs. I had a hard time finding ones that had already done Gale. I finally found Annie's Ideas and SD Library Challenge. They both seemed to have similar experiences. I liked SD Library Challenge's idea of listening with your eyes closed. Hadn't thought of that but it would be a great way of really listening.
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