Exercise  7         

        Searching Summit, WorldCat and e-book collections

1.

    a. Use Summit to find videos on elections and press coverage.

     b.  Identify a video title that is available for requesting from another library.

2. 
    a. You are looking for books on how men and women look differently at their relationships!  Use the Summit catalog and perform a Keyword search.

 

    b. Looking at your keyword search results, what are some of the best Subject Headings you would use to do a Subject search on the topic?

 

3.  How would you request a Summit book?

 

4.  You want to get a hold of the 1960s TV series the "Andy Griffith show" on DVD.  Search WorldCat.

    a. What was your search?

    b. How can you request one of the DVDs in the series?

5. 

5.  Search the NetLibrary (e-books) collection for possible electronic books on a topic of personal interest.

AND/OR

Play around with Google Book to see what kind of books (full-text or limited/snippet view) you may retrieve on a topic of interest

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