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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