Lesson 8

Part 1

1. There are many ways other than keyword in which WorldCat may be searched. Very beneficial to the researcher.

2. I typed in the book title Wonder. Two thousand eight hundred sixty-four libraries worldwide have this book! The top location was the Alexander Mitchell Library in South Dakota.

3. The call number is FIC PAL. Author R.J. Palacio has also written 365 Days of Wonder; The Julian Chapter: A Wonder Story; and Pluto: A Wonder Story. When I clicked on the subject Abnormalities, Human I got the same book. I went back and clicked on Self-acceptance and I got 59 fiction results for that search!

Part 2

1. One of my results was "Fierce Winds and a Blank Whiteness" : The Culture of Dakota Winter, 1870-1915. When I clicked on the access link I was taken to the VirginiaTech  VTechWorks site. It had an abstract dated 07-25-2011. When I clicked on the Show full item record it took me to a page which showed the author; the abstract; the publisher, etc. When I clicked on View/Open it took me to the file which was the entire thesis written by Daniel James Fischer. This document was 139 pages long including the bibliography. It was an interesting thesis on the history of the early Dakotas!

Part 3

1. I clicked on Warrior His Horse Wounded. I liked how the viewer was able to zoom in and out of the picture to be able to really examine the sketch. The viewer also has the option to download three different sizes of the picture. The print option, reference URL and the save to favorites options are readily available. The description of the art work is very complete.

2.Teachers at my school would love this access to CAMIO. The site would be great for teachers to use when they are discussing different time periods and different mediums of art. I  not really sure about the community benefit since we do not have any computers that are set up for community use.

3. I chose to look into the topics of costumes and jewelry. I clicked on an earring, an armlet and a necklace. I exported them to PowerPoint and then had to click to say that the export was okay so that I could manipulate the pictures. I was able to manipulate this pictures with all of the available options on PowerPoint! Plus, the site it was taken from was also on the document, so I had instant access to my citation materials - how cool!!