Ah hah! You thought this was going to be another episode of "Welcome to Night Vale", didn't you! Admit it, I had you going. No? You know, you could just lie and make me feel better
International holdings, strangely spelled sea creatures, and naked people.....I LOVE THIS WEEK! Ever since our reference presentation by you Julie (yes, you! Shout out to you on my blog!), I have been eagerly anticipating this one, ok maybe just CAMIO. Maybe.....
WorldCat
1. Searching by limiters - there's alot. I remember using WorldCat once or twice in college for those pesky resources that you needed to have for a paper. You know how it is. Your paper is due tomorrow by 5, you need atleast 10 sources, and one has to be a book. You put this project off way too long with no time for ILL, and now you are wee bit screwed. Wait! If you are incredibly lucky, you might just get a full-text book off of here. Ah, sweet victory......
And now I have told you all about my shameful dark days of undergraduate. Awesome.
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Moving on!
2. I love Anne of Green Gables, and it's a classic, and everyone needs it, if they don't already. Nice! Over 1200 results, and a little under 800 are in English. Translation! Quite a few have it available in Braille. Item #1, there are 1163 holdings for this particular version, and the top one listed it at Augustana College, courier code SDA. Sadly, our library does not have this specific copy, but I know we have multiple copies of it!
3. It's fiction. We have it in our own system as J MONTGOMERY and also as
YA MONTGOMERY but LC has it as:
Class Descriptors: LC: PZ7.M768; Dewey: [Fic]
The other items that are available by Lucy Maud Montgomery include other works by her, biographies of her, audio and video resources in which she is credited (audio CDs, DVDs, VHS).
Similar subjects:
Clicking on Orphans -- Fiction. brings up many other juvenile and YA titles on the subject, including one of my favorites!
I like how the contents of the record include the chapter titles. DAWW!! I just love this book so much! I love Anne and Gilbert. They were my OTP before I even knew what that was!
OAIster (ah its finally time for oddly spelled, yet delicious seafood, No?)
I chose the HIV/Surveillance Report. Clicking into it, I notice that this is an item that has been put into ContentDM.
However, I see this first:
South Dakota State Library: Digital Collections. These collections are best viewed using Google Chrome
Too bad! I love Firefox! Moving on....
I clicked the first link, but that just took me to the SD State Library page. Rereading, it says that to access this specific title, I have to click the other link. Available for this title are the reports for 2013 and 2014. Very interesting stats on this. Very handy reference tool as well. I am not sure where else one could go online to find this information, unless you knew specifically which department kept tracks of these statistics.
CAMIO
I love art. I love art. I love art. Did you hear? I love art. Ssh! It's a secret.
Oh, no! I will have to finish this one at work tomorrow. Oh well, I will see you again soon, CAMIO. Until tomorrow......:D
As we eagerly anticipate what I find tomorrow, enjoy this image of sassy!Toothless!
(I hear if you give him a fish, he might lick you....)
Image courtesy of Google, Dreamworks, How to Train Your Dragon, and lots of other peeps, but sadly not me.
Update!
Yay! Made it to work, braved the blistering winds, and have quite empty library. Really? No takers for a blizzard with 25-35 mph winds? No one? Yea....
Anywho, since I am at work, this means I can finally finish with CAMIO! Yay! Art time.
1. Searching for Sioux brings up 63 results. Going through these, I note that just like Lesson 8 says, nothing is from local museums or institutions. Which leads me to a side question: how does one become affilliated with this database? Is there an annual fee that must be paid to have your museum or institution's materials available to be viewed online? Is it a significant amount? Interesting stuff. I mean, I could totally see a few entities that are more local the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, such as the Journey and the SD State Museum in Pierre.
I did enjoy seeing the George Catlins that are hanging in the Smithsonian came up in this search.
2. Hands down best use for this would be if someone wanted to look at something specific and wanted to view a high quality image that is guaranteed to be the image they are looking for. It is far too easy for someone to edit or manipulate a work and then post it on a website somewhere. This is as legitimate as it gets, bar actually seeing it in person.
On that note, the images are very nice quality. Very nice! And you have the option to download it as well, with quite decent resolution. I do wish that you could click and drag to pan around the image. There are button at the top, but not the most handy.
3. My own search. I am going to search "Norse". Hmm, one hit and not what I was expecting. Let's try this again with "Viking". Yay! There are 9 results. Look! A stirrup, some brooches, a sword, and a painting with Viking in the title. Viewing favorites allows for some fun features! If you wanted to show a bunch of images on ancient jewelry, this would be a great slide show. I am not sure of any personal uses for this tool, but might come in handy for a student, an art display, or on a web page.
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There! We all got some Viking artwork, Canadian childhood heroes, and a cute dragon. What a week!
What a week! Glad you made it to work safely today to be able to check out CAMIO! There is no cost for an institution to participate, and there is a "contact us" to participate e-mail here: http://www.oclc.org/camio/contribute.en.html
ReplyDeleteYes! CAMIO provides one with the opportunity to see art that one may not be able to see in person. And great finds in the viking search.
Thanks so much for your post,
Julie