Lesson 6 - WorldCat

For Part 1 of this lesson's discovery exercise, I typed in Of Mice and Men as the book title, with 917 results indicated. The top library listed was the Augustana College library. The Class Descriptors included both LC: PS357.3234 and Dewey 813/.52. The first link was to the book Steinbeck: Novel and Stories 1932-1937. Of Mice and Men is one five Steinbeck novels that are found in this anthology of Steinbeck novels. When I clicked on "Steinbeck," the titles of many other novels written by Steinbeck appeared, including Travels with Charlie, The Winter of Our Discontent, The Grapes of Wrath, etc. When I clicked on the four subject links, doing so took me to a list of other American stories and novels of the 20th century.
When completing Part 2 of the discovery exercise, I selected an an article entitled," Containment of Small Group Infestations of the Mountain Pine Beetle in Ponderosa Pine." I selected this article because two years ago, our family hiked up Harney Peak, where we were shocked and saddened to see the devastation caused by the mountain pine beetle in the Black Hills. Coincidentally, a few nights ago I received an email from a cousin who informed that she and her brother will be unable to come to our family reunion scheduled for next weekend because her brother is currently involved in trying to save the pine trees on land he owns in Colorado from these same beetles. Although the article was authored by employees of the the Rocky Mountain division of the US Forest Service, the article appears in a search of "South Dakota" because it refers to a study that was done to investigate the ability of semiochemical tree baits to contain the samll group infestations of the mountain pine beetle in the ponderosa pine trees thar are found in the part of the Black Hills National Forest that is located near Lead, South Dakota. I was able to read the article after I clicked on link nex to "Access."
I found World Cat to be an easy-to-use source with great potential for use not only by my students but also by me!