Lesson 8 WorldCat with Camio Comeing Later

Basic Discovery Part 1

Advanced Search

The keyword search terms are an extensive list of search options. There are the basic keyword searchers like  “keyword”, “author”, “title”, and “author”.  The ones that I think will be useful for library services would be “title”, “author”, and “ISBN”. This would work well with searching for books. The ones I found to be unique and interesting were the “musical composition” and “corporate and conferences”.

Title Phrase Search

I looked up “The Dark by Lemony Snicket. The search resulted in 1724 libraries worldwide that own this title. The top location for this book was Alexander Mitchell Library. The top libraries start in South Dakota then moves onto local states such as, Iowa, Minnesota, and Montana. The interlibrary loan feature is really useful. The listing itself has the books as a whole but then it also had listing for the different versions of the book published in different country. This looks to be a very useful tool.

Into Result #1

The call number for “ The Dark” by Lemony Snicket is LC: PZ7.S6795; Dewey: [E]. The results for entries for Lemony Snicket was 2549 entries. The first entries were all of his books. Then the entries change to sound recording and library searches. The subject term I click on was “Fear of the Dark” Fiction. The results were of other books that are based on fear of the dark. There was a total 708 entries. 606 entries were books, 53 entries were internet, 35 sound, 12 visual, 2 computer and 1 article. I click on the computer tab to see those entries and it took the viewer to an interactive book called  Pajama Sam. There is a lot of information here.

Discovery Exercise Part 2

OAIster

After selecting OAIster I put in “South Dakota” and came up with 413 records found. The records consisted of a wide range of topics. Majority seemed to be government related documents. I look at the 10^th result which was titled “Sweet Clover in Great Plains Farming”. This report was from the U.S Department of Agriculture. This was a technical bulletin September 1933 that discussed the impact of hay production and usage going back to 1920. This report discussed the uses of sweet hay and the related problems. I can see how OAister could be a powerful search tool for specific topic searches.  

 

Common Core

After searching Common Core State Standards and narrowing the results down to books there were 938 books found. I chose the third result “Digital teaching platforms: customizing learning for each student”. I even requested it as an interlibrary loan. The reason I picked this book is because I have been looking into learning modules. Rapid City Schools library/ media curriculum is split between two basic areas basic library structure/ usage and research. The elementary media specialists this year have been meeting to develop our curriculum. The curriculum is rather broad and the primary grade levels have basically the same curriculum with increasing difficulty. Intermediate grades are also very much the same. This year being my first year I have taught k -1 the same materials and 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th grades the same materials. Next year I’m going to have a problem because I do not want to repeat. My early idea is to set up learning modules for the content. These modules would be in a spiral curriculum format. I really want to give students choice and break away from the traditional teacher from the front of the room model of instruction. I’m really interested in the Khan Academy blended learning model.  Wish me luck ;-)

Camion I will need to do at School