Lesson 7:  Exercise part 1

1. This advanced search screen is the one I always use.  It has such a great variety of ways of searching.  I usually use the ISBN number when I catalogue new books.  I just have to scan that number in and it pops right up.  I have never noticed the musical composition one but I have never looked for this type of material. 

2. I put in Green Eggs and Ham and got 147 results.  124 of these were in English.  I clicked in and the South Dakota libraries were listed first and Alexander Mitchell Library was the very first on the list. 

3. Call number is : LC PZ8.3 G276; PS2523.E2  Dewey: E
    There were 4,477 search results when I clicked on Dr. Seuss
    On subjects:
    Food Preferences: 40
    Children's stories:  85,467
    Readers:                 216,477
    Vocabulary            51,787
The Citation was given so if you had to cite the book this would be useful to a student.
You can get all the information to catalogue the book in your own library. 
It gave a Vendor so if you need to buy it you can contact them.
It gave a physical discription of the book, so you know it's size. 

Discovery Exercise part 2

When I put in South Dakota I came up with 827 results.  I went to an article intitled Sweet Clover in Great Plains Farming.  It told me that it had 54 pages in the article and it told me that it was free to search and download. 
Next I changed the database to MEDLINE and put in cancer.  I got 1,278,533 results.  I just chose the 3rd article down and went into Fruit and Vegetable Intake.  This told me that the article was from a journal and gave me a http:// address.  I clicked in and there was a nice abstract, which if you just needed a little more information would have worked great.  I did click into the full text article and then you needed a  password to go further.  From just using the World Cat index you could get just enough information to use as a source if you needed more sources than what you had on hand. 

I thought this was easy to use and get around in.  I have used this source to order books and catalogue both so it was not a new thing for me.  However, I have never changed any of the setting so it was a good experience to get in and do some of that. 

From looking at some of the other blogs I found people had some of the same observations that I had found.  Someone else found the musical composition interesting.