Lesson 7 WorldCat and More FirstSearch Indexes
Advanced Challenge
1. I searched "Marting Luther" keyword. Then added not "Martin Luther King" and then selected junvenile as a subtype limiter. I would suggest Martin Luther by May McNeer and Lynd Ward. It's available at Augustana and USF. I would also suggest Martin Luther by Harry Emerson Fosdick and Steele Savage. It's available at Augustana.
2. At first I tried to use the drop down menus and serached for graphic novel as Material Type. And then I added classic as Subject. Nothing. Then I tried graphic novel keyword and classic literature as keyword and I got several hits. Some of the first ones were not exactly right, but then I opened The Christmas Carol: The Graphic Novel and saw "classic comics" in the publication field. So I searched keyword "graphic novel" and keyword "classic comics" and found what I was searching for. Actually I would add two titles; Romeo and Juliet: the graphic novel published by Lucent Books and Romeo and Juliet: the graphic novel Original Text Version published by Towcester: Classical Comics. The reason for the titles is that Shakespeare is best when you can compare the old and new English versions.
3. I searched Title "My Fair Lady" and "musical score" keyword and found several good results. When I tried using "musical score" with musical composition or musical composition phrase I got 0 results. I like keyword searches because they catch a broader range of things. I'd rather go through the first 5 or 10 titles and revise the keywords as I go.
Anyway, I chose My fair lady: vocal selection by Frederick Loewe, Alan Jay Lerner and Bernard Shaw. The accession number is OCLC: 22601829. Is there some reason I would care about the accession number?
Common Core Connections
World Cat/First Search
A student might use World Cat to find information about resources they need. It's the ultimate catalog. One of the standards (CC9-10RS/TS0; 2.4.1) is to determine how to act on information (accept, reject, modify).
A student could decide if they want to acquire a piece of information based on their World Cat search. But in the end, the actual information would need to be evaluated.
SUPER work, Annie! Your #1 answer is great, and I really LOVE how you walked us through your process in finding the answer for #2. Yes, yes, yes, this is how a good searcher finds things!! The OCLC Accession # is a number unique to a particular record, so if you ever wanted to find exactly that edition again, you could keep track of the accession #. Your Common Core connection is very good, as it truly involves critical thinking. I had a girl once doing a report on Dover, England, request a map of Dover, Delaware! No critical thinking skills at all! :) Thanks for your great work, Annie!!
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