LESSON 8- WORLD CAT, CAMIO AND MORE

PART 1 - WorldCat
QUESTION 1 & 2
   I was amazed by how many different ways there are to limit your search on WorldCat.  Instead of doing a search for "Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone" which a figured would bring up millions of hits I decided to search for something more obscure.  This morning I had someone call and ask if we had "The Thoen Stone: a saga of the Black Hills" by Frank S. Thomson.  It looks like 130 other libraries also own this book with the South Dakota State Library being at the top of the list.

QUESTION 3
The call # for the book in LC is F657.B6 and in Dewey is 917.83/9/031.  We are decided to be different and put it in 978.3.  Mr. Thomson also wrote "Ninety-six years in the Black Hills" and "Last Buffalo of the Black Hills".  There are 2 other items about the Thoen Stone, "Mr. Thoen's Stone" (which we own) and "Ezra Kind's mysterious message" which apparently the University of South Dakota has the only copy. Probably because it is an article from "Real West" magazine .

PART 2 Other databases & OAIster
OAIster was really neat.  I did the search for South Dakota and found some interesting government documents and tons of pictures.  I wasted more time then I should have looking through those.  I also looked over the guide for the other databases and checked out ArchiveGrid too.  That was also pretty neat.  I found some interesting articles to view on there and was even able to pull up some photos as well.

PART 3  CAMIO
QUESTION 1
I did a search for "Sioux" and got 63 hits.  I was amazed by how many museums that are on this database.  The images are very high quality.

QUESTION 2
This resource would be helpful for people who are trying to recreate certain styles in their own crafts.  It would also be helpful with school projects.  Maybe it would be helpful if you were travelling somewhere to get a preview of a museums collections to decide where you would like to spend your time.

QUESTION 3
I did a search for "impressionist" and got 178 results. I saved them to favorites and opened them as a power point presentation.  That would be really nice for a teacher doing a lesson.