Thursday, November 15, 2007

What else can we find

WorldCat.org has linked names in the database. This helps us quickly and easily find other items with/by/about that person.

In the e-mail to librarians WorldCat offers the example of a search for Star Wars, Episode IV - notice all the links. You can click on George Lucas or Carrie Fisher, a list of items is pulled up by/about/with that person.

After you select the title- scroll down a bit to see which library owns that item (and how far away they are from your computer).

Best of all for researchers who want to cite the title they used - there is a "Cite this Item" link which will pull up APA, MLA, etc citations for that particular title.

I can't wait to tell the research classes. What a wonderful tool for those who forget to write down all the publication details from a work they are using.

Technology is just amazing!

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