Title search - Well the book I'm currently reading (The Not-So-Great Depression) yielded no results so I tried one of the last ones I read - Ninth Ward. Only 40 libraries have this book world wide. This actually didn't surprise me much because it's a fairly new, fits into a somewhat niche collection of middle grade fiction. The Alameda County Library in California was the top library in the list. The call number for this is pretty easy because it's fiction. The Alameda County Library has it listed as "J RHODES,J" because of author name and the juvenile fiction classification of the title.
Since it wasn't clear if we were supposed to see what else was available for that subject from WorldCat or the top listed library of that title, I did both, but only for one subject descriptor: Hurricane Katrina, 2005 --Juvenile Fiction. The Alameda County Library had 4 total titles for with the same subject descriptor, one being Ninth Ward. There were 22 titles in WorldCat with the same subject heading. Some of the titles in WorldCat were a little hokey (in my opinion), such as Jake and Friends Encounter Hurricane Katrina. I'm sorry, this makes it sound like they took a little road trip somewhere and happened upon a hurricane. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Maybe I'm judging a book by its title, but someone at that publishing company should have raised a little flag about that.
I have always liked using WorldCat and I think it is a very good interface - very user friendly and intuitive.
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Great comments about WorldCat. It is always amazing to me just how much information is in this resource. Sorry the question wasn't clear--we were trying to encourage you to explore in WorldCat, which is what you did!
Hi, library chick! Totally with you on the title of the "encounter Katrina" book! I tried searching for your first try and found it--WorldCat is pretty literal, so when searching for titles everything has to be exact. In this case, drop the "The" and include the hyphens: "not-so-great depression" will yield 2 results by different publishers. Thanks for your comments!!
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