Discovery exercise part 1.
1. Worldcat gives you 14 other ways you could find a text, this is particularly helpful when you do not know the title of a book but happen to know some phrase related to this book it would at least give you a chance of finding the text. After two failed attempts at searching for a book I finally found a third title that gave me one entry. The two other previous attempts were for
The house on mango street," and "Plato and a Platypus go into a bar..." The book that gave me one entry was "the festival of bones," this title as you may or may not have guessed it's related to the day of the deah (all souls day 2 of nov) in México and it's one I use in my class during that time.
2.Only one library worldwide has this text and it's the San Benito county library in California.
3. Other information available in the full record is: Citing this page which sends you on a page that helps you cite the work and I particularly find this helpful for students. Many times they forget to give credit to the author and not only will you lose points but plagiarism is a very dirty word; with the link however a student no longer has the excuse of saying: "I didn't know how to cite the book so I just used it, what's the big deal..." It also has a geographic entry with links to related information on México and the celebration.
Discovery Exercise part 2
The result I chose was "cabin, flag and woman with seven boys." This is a photograph the information on this item is at the bottom and has several links to most of the keywords in the title and where the original photograph is located as well as information how to reach the museum that owns the photograph for copyright in case you wish to use the item. I also noticed at the top of the page is a bottom for citing this resource. Since this tool does not only give you text resources but also offers a variety of resources such as the photograph I looked at I can see where it would add to the richness of a research for a student. I think that you are only limited by your desire and effort. I do like this tool. Here is a link to the photograph in case anyone would like to see it: Cabin, flag and woman with seven boys.
Hola, profe Lunde! Thanks for your report on WorldCat. You will get better results when searching WorldCat if you omit "the," "an," and "a" if those words begin the title. So a title phrase search of "house on mango street" yields many, many results. For some reason, I could not get the Plato book to come up in title phrase, but as as a keyword search "Plato and a Platypus" gave me many results. If you don't find what you want one way, try another. Your result from San Benito library is an odd case of that library cataloging a google book, which links to google and amazon. If you do a title phrase search for "festival of bones," you get many results in different languages. Great find in OAIster! I wonder where that picture is--it looks very desolate! We like this one, too, as it does give full-text or full-image results. Thanks for your comments.
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