Monday, April 19, 2010

1. Do a search for a topic that interests you. Note the default search is "full text." You may want to change the search to keyword. Review your findings and observations. When I put in the search "Weddings" "full text" and "ALL" formats, I got 955 hits. When I put in "Weddings" "keyword" "e-books", I only got 7. What a difference.

2. The leader of your exercise class needs some new material. Do a keyword search for "fitness" and sort by "Newest First." View a book or two and make a recommendation. I would of course recommend "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Fitness!" Hah. Of course, she's the leader of MY exercise class. Good to see they had other books she could use.
3. You have a patron who wants to read everything about Western history. He has exhausted your collection. In NetLibrary, click "Advanced Search." In the Publisher box, type "Nebraska" or "Oklahoma." Report your findings. I didn't find anything when I put in Nebraska but when I put in Oklahoma, I found two books.

1 comment:

Jane Heitman Healy said...

Thanks for trying out NetLibrary, Serial Reader. Don't know what happened, but a publisher search using the words "Nebraska" or "Oklahoma" should yield a big bunch of Western stuff published by the University presses. Hope you could see some use for this resource for yourself & your patrons.