Lesson 8
April 10, 2015
Worldcat
Here at the Potter County Library, we have two small books
very popluar with our older readers that enjoy German/Russian history. They are The Last Bridge and A
Distant Promise and they detail the life of a girl in southern Russia in
the 1800s. These books were printed by
Midstates Printing in Aberdeen in 1984. There a few references found in the
State Library search, but none found on Worldcat. I needed to replace these
books for our library, and I felt very fortunate to find them on Amazon. I
thought it was very interesting that I could find no reference to these books
on Worldcat.
I searched in Worldcat Dissertations for the dissertation of
a college classmate of mine, Glenn Daman.
His dissertation is titled Developing the Small Church Ministry. This dissertation has led to Glenn writing
four different books related to developing, leading, and shepherding a small
church. Pretty cool finding a good
friend’s books on Worldcat!
On OAIster I checked out the Western Prairie Fringed Orchid.
It brought me to a 1- page link from the University of Nebraska. This link gave
me info on what book to find more information on this plant, and gave a brief
summary of the plant. This was an
interesting tool to search an obscure plant and tweaked my interest to use it
more often.
It is pretty cool to find a friend's book in WorldCat! I also checked to see if I could locate "The Last Bridge" and "A Distant Promise" in WorldCat--they are both there--I found them searching the author "Reuer, Elvera"
ReplyDeleteGlad you could find them on Amazon to get replacement copies.
Thanks for your post,
Julie