Transcript of 1 Online Searching, 4 th ed. Chapter 7 WorldCat Search Examples 1 & 2: Finding Materials in Other...
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1 Online Searching, 4 th ed. Chapter 7 WorldCat Search Examples
1 & 2: Finding Materials in Other Languages Finding Materials
for A Specific Audience pp. 138 141 Librarians Guide to Cultivating
Database Skills for Research and Instruction
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2 Get oriented: this is the WC Basic search interface. You want
the Advanced Search (you do, really) Get oriented: this is the WC
Basic search interface. You want the Advanced Search (you do,
really)
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3 (because we are advanced searchers by now, arent we?)
WorldCat Advanced Search interface upper half Beginning of the
Limits access to field index lists
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4 WorldCat Advanced Search interface lower half Limits and more
limits! Does the number and nature of these options help you
understand WorldCat as a database of the contents of libraries
rather than just the contents of journals? Limits and more limits!
Does the number and nature of these options help you understand
WorldCat as a database of the contents of libraries rather than
just the contents of journals?
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5 Enough orienteering. Lets search. This icon/button takes you
to.. (an amazing crazy long list of fields youll need to scroll to
get to Subject!)
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6 Yup theres a few and a few more ;) Seriously: note that if
you click a heading at this point (e.g. cooking) the system
immediately returns you to the search interface, with that one
heading filled in and the field set to Subject. Which is fine for
one subject, but if you want more you need to exercise a little
Boolean smarts.
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7 Boolean smarts in this case just means knowing that you can
type in: OR cookbooks along with cooking. (Language: another
amazing crazy long list of fields !) And the results are Search
Example 1 finding cookbooks (and more) in Korean
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8 Amazing. Now there are over 3,000 cookbooks or items about
cooking, in Korean, in WorldCat. Amazing. Now there are over 3,000
cookbooks or items about cooking, in Korean, in WorldCat. 54
libraries have a copy of this DVD
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9 Search Example 2 finding cookbooks for kids Jump back to the
Search interface (this part stays the same) Change the Language:
Change the Audience Annnd go:
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10 blammo! (lots of results) blammo! (lots of results)
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11 (The one seemingly- odd result) Collective: awww- how cute!
Explained!
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12 Librarians Guide to Online Searching, 4 th edition
Cultivating Database Skills for Research and Instruction End of
this search example