SD Library Challenge 7--World CAT and more

1.  I chose the title "From Tadpole to Frog" and got 48 results.  1206 libraries worldwide have the book.  Brookings Public Library is the first library listed.  The call number is (Dewey) 597.8/9.  I found 437 more records for this author.  I clicked on the subject tadpole and found 932 more records were available.  It also shows how to:  cite the book which would be great for students; More like this (with the same title and author); subjects, abstracts, notes, vender, material type, document type, author and illustrator.

2.  Other First Search Databasers--Wow! WorldCAT is in over 470 languages and records are contributed for over 100 countries from 1000 BC to the present!  Some other features listed are:   Articles first--has citations from over 16,000 journals, etc.  Ebooks--but it says most of them aren't accessible due to individual licensing restrictions;  GPO--US Government document which has citiation access to nearly 35 years worth of publications; ERIC--over 600 journals from the US Dept. of Ed.;  Medline--useful for the serious medical researcher;  The World Almanac--can search all resources at once or only one (nice!); ArchiveGrid (starting point for research done for historical projects) and Camio--95,000 images form prominent museum collections that have rights cleared for educational purposes.  Nice to know since I teach art!

3.  Discovery exercise part 2--For S.D., I got 764 results.  I clicked on the title "A School of the Prairie".  I tried clicking on the link next to Access for this title and it said, "Not found".  I'm not sure why but I tried it for many others, too and all the results said the same things.  After going through a few of the other blogger's posts, I see they were able to click an item and wonderful pictures would come up.  I can see this would be great for our fourth grade class right now for their SD history projects.  (that is if they can get the images to open!)