World Cat and More FirstSearch Indexes

The World Cat is where librarians catalog books. Here you can find where a book that you are looking for is located. I did a "Title Phrase" search for "3 Cups of Tea" as this is a book that is required reading at SDSU. 12 records were found. When I clicked the #1 item, I learned that this title is at 2144 different libraries worldwide. The top listed library is Augustana College. The call number listed is LC2330 or Dewey 371.822/09549 When clicking on the author, you can find other books or recordings of books written by the author. You can click on related subjects to find additional books that may be of interest to the reader. You may also read abstract of book, learn the language it is written, publication information and description including numbers of pages and illustration as well as size of book.

Other databases are available such as Ebooks, ERIC, MEDLINE, WorldAlmanac, and OAIster to name a few. The latter is a full text database that I browsed to see what I could find when searching "South Dakota" with the subject phrase option. 145 records were found. Thinking back to teaching South Dakota unit to fourth graders I went back to search option and added keyword "history". This narrowed the records found to 4 which included Dorthie Hall, History of Greater Sage-grouse in the Dakotas, Dakota Territory, and United States Historical Election Returns; South Dakota Elections 1889-1968. These included maps and manuscripts. Unfortunately as I followed the links, only 1 worked. On the other hand the World Almanac produced many good resources. There was a great article on American Indian Languages. On other databases I found additional resources.