Transcript Librarian’s Guide to Online Searching, 4th ed. Cultivating Database Skills for Research and Instruction Chapter 7 WorldCat Search Example 5: Finding Materials in Other Libraries (the mystery.

Librarian’s
Guide to
Online Searching, 4th ed.
Cultivating Database Skills for Research and Instruction
Chapter 7
WorldCat Search Example 5:
Finding Materials in Other Libraries
(the mystery of the British Journal of Clinicalsomething-or-other at SUNY Buffalo)
pp. 143 – 144
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Maybe we could
just look it up in
the Title Phrase
index…
…or… maybe not! There are 5 screens of British Journal of Clinical [x]
listings. Easier to just truncate and limit to the library that is supposed to
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Quick, back to the search interface:
Expert tip: if you tab to the dropdown, and then
type t… and t again… it will auto-move to the
Title Phrase field (e.g., the second field beginning
with “t”). Same for other fields. Once you get
familiar with the choices/field names, just tab
and type.
Now to find that library code:
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Presto!
Well, geez, that
was easy.
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Search example 5 ready to run:
Beyond the Textbook Moment:
Although we probably don’t need to (with “Journal”
in the title), we could have also Limited to material
type: Serial Publications
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Argh, what a shifting target everything is. The University of Rochester
has pulled its holdings from WorldCat, so it no longer shows up as
owning this journal (as described in the textbook):
But the University of Wisconsin libraries DO have it (go badgers) , so here is their
record, showing the “local library owns it” indicator:
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Librarian’s Guide to Online Searching, 4th edition
Cultivating Database Skills for Research and Instruction
End of this search example
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