Week 4 Lesson 7 -- WorldCat and More FirstSearch Indexes

1. Using the keyword search for the Missouri River -- 32,810 results (English 28,988) came up.  Results were found in the following areas:  Books, Internet, Maps, Archival, Visual Sound, Serials, Articles, Scores, Computer, and Updated Resources.

2. Using "Books" and the Title Phrase search for Secrets of a Wildlife Watcher  -- with 1,339 results (4 libraries in South Dakota listed first then library's from surrounding states were listed. The top library Madison Pub Libr --File or Directory not found.

3. The call # for Secrets of a Wildlife Watcher was 591.5. Siouxland library was listed #2 with 54 books other books written by Jim Arnosky.  Thunderbirds was written in 2011.


Life size eagles, hawks, owls, with fold outs.

This book is of interest since library patrons have been watching the eagle web cam from Decorah, Iowa -
 http://www.ustream.tv/decoraheagles.  Last year we had a pair of barn owls raised a family in our barn.
   By clicking the Subjects category on the left side -- more titles of wildlife books were found.


Other FirstSearch Indexes
   Two databases I found of interest was the OCLC Ebooks to look up available Ebooks and the World Almanac with Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedia and 4 almanacs.  A library patron uses almanacs from time to time and this will give the person 4 almanac choices.

Discovery Exercise part 2
   Using OAIster I selected "Log Shanty with Flag, Woman, and Seven Boys."  When clicking to full screen, the logs used for the roof could be seen closely to see how the roof was made. A tree branch or young tree was used for the flag pole -- very interesting -- such a desolate scene.
   "The Bat Survey of the Sioux District" could be viewed by several different means. I chose the PDF.