Lesson 7

I am quite familiar with WorldCat since I used it regularly to do interlibrary loans for several years.  For this lesson I looked up the book, "Cuddly Crochet" by Stacey Trock.  There are 191 libraries that own this, with Anchorage Public Library in Alaska being the first listed.  The LC number given is TT825, and the Dewey numbers are 746.43/4041 or 746.43.  I found two other records in WorldCat linked to this author (although I believe they are the same book with different publication years).  When I clicked on the subject heading "soft toy making", I got 1234 results in various formats.  When I tried the subject heading, "crocheting -- patterns" the result was 4076 total hits.  These results can be limited by format using the tabs at the top.

In the OAIster database (something I have not used before), I had 764 results for my subject search of  "South Dakota".  I clicked on the link for "Flax Cropping in Mixture With Wheat, Oats, and Barley."  When I then clicked on the "Access" link, I could further click to view each page of this 47 page document.  This would be something for serious researchers to use.  We don't get a lot of requests for the type of information that seems to be in OAIster, but it is good to know it is available.

When looking at other participants' blogs. I noticed that some had difficulty accessing articles on OAIster either because the article just didn't open or else you had to log in to get access to it.  I looked at a couple documents they had also looked at and got the same results.  I guess I just happened to pick one of the right ones initially.  I think everyone at our library is pretty familiar with how to search and use WorldCat since we submit our interlibrary loan requests through it.