Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Worldcat and OAIster

1.      Worldcat

I chose to search for the book The Filter Bubble by Eli Pariser. 1209 libraries have item #1. The top library listed was Augustana College. The call #s listed are -- LC: ZA4237; Dewey: 004.67/8; NAL: ZA4237. It looks like it’s the only book he has written, but I did find a link to a presentation he gave that is available on the TED website. I clicked on the subject Invisible Web and got 32 items however, most were duplicates of the same 2 items.

Also included in the record were a picture of the cover, an abstract, the publisher, date of publication, ISBN and other information.


2.      OAIster
 
I found it kind of funny that the first item that came up in my South Dakota search was Flood Tracking for North Dakota. When I went into the record and clicked the access link, I found the complete title was Flood Tracking Charts for North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, and the Missouri and Yellowstone Basins of Montana, so the subject search was accurate, but the title of the item was misleading.

1 comment:

  1. Hi, Timmi, thanks for your report on WorldCat. It's cool that WorldCat records link out to TED! Good findings--thanks for your comments.

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