Thursday, April 08, 2010
OCLC
I actually use this site quite a bit for doing ILLs, so I'm already pretty familiar with it. For the title search, I looked for "Never Look Away" by Linwood Barclay. There were 4 records found, with 690 libraries owning the top record. The first library that owned it was actually my library, AML. This was the class descriptor: LC: PR9199.3B37135. You can also see the OCLC Accession number, number of pages, subjects, genre, language, year written, etc.. As far as the OAIster database, I happened to pick one of the articles that was not full-text. This database was ok, I don't think I would recommend it to someone over Proquest.
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Hi, Slow Movin'! If you do ILL, you are indeed very familiar with WorldCat! I hope you will try OAIster again. It is not intended to compete with ProQuest--and you are right that more patrons would find ProQuest more useful. However, OAIster contains audio, video, and image files as well as documents from open source collections of materials scanned or created in digital format. The video of "Daily life in a South Dakota town during the Great Depression: Britton" is one example. It's one more at-your-fingertips resource. Thanks for your comments.
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