WorldCat, CAMIO and More

I searched Martin Luther King in the basic search and had over 27,000 results.  I noticed the tab for books and saw over 13,000 results. I selected the book tab and then used the limiters under the tabs and selected juvenile and nonfiction.  After this I was down to 1,271 results and then noticed the English results for 1,134.  I saw the title Martin’s Big Words which is an excellent picture book.  Some may consider the picture book too young for 4 & 5^th graders, but I strongly believe you are never too old to enjoy picture books.  It does show primary school in the records but could be used for discussion and understanding for what they already know.  For this book to be used in Sunday school it should be short enough to get through the book for the hour once a week, in a couple of weeks.  Another possible book for this activity could be, My Life with Martin Luther King, Jr.  by Coretta Scott King.  This book however has 372 pages and is too long for the time available but excerpts could be read from the book.  The detailed records show the number of pages in the books.  When I selected Martin’s Big Words I was able to select “libraries worldwide that own the book”.  I was able to view the libraries in South Dakota that have this item.  I started to select the different libraries and not all of the links to those libraries worked.  Even when I selected Rapid City Public Library, “he file or directory was not found”.  Because I already have the link to Rapid City Public Library, I could search for the book online and hold or just drive down there to retrieve the book.  When finding a library with a working link that had the book, there was the option to request the book through interlibrary loan.

The second question is relevant to my library at this time.  I am always looking to increase the library’s graphic novel collection but want to choose graphic novels that have chapter book beginnings.  I did the advanced search for graphic novels and classics and had 889 results.  As looked through the results not all the results are what I would consider a classic.  Garfield does not fit this categories in my opinion.  Some of the results are just comics.  I tried to do an advanced search and selected “not” comics but still had comics in the results. I do not think there is enough distinction between comic and graphic novel yet. As I looked at the detailed records I noticed that graphic novels is listed in the subjects but only see classic(s) in other areas of the records.  Not sure if this has any bearing on my results.  When I put in “classic” and designated it as a subject, I only received one result and that was as a classic as a genre.  As I looked at the libraries nearby that house some of these graphic novels, it appeared as if very few are owned by SD libraries that in with WorldCat.  I liked that I could see the cover of these graphic novels.  Many had covers I think my middle schoolers would deem to young, and I think they are looking for edgier graphic covers.  One graphic novel I found that I may add to my library is War of the Worlds which is published by Stone Arch Books.  I would normally record the ISBN as I would use this to search my book vendor.

For the third question, I used the advanced search in WorldCat and typed in “My Fair Lady” and “vocal score”.  I had a 148 total results but noticed a tab for scores which had 133 results.  I redid the advance search after I had been pulled away and noticed the second time on the advanced search that I could select musical scores.  I chose the first result

My fair lady :
vocal selection /

Frederick Loewe;  Alan Jay Lerner

The detailed record has the description as 1 vocal score.  The descriptor under subjects labels it as:  Musicals—Excerpts—Vocal scores with piano.  This appeared to be a great match.  The accession number is  OCLC: 2052359.