Discovered that you can find some really great Web sites in WorldCat. Had a patron asking for info about contemporary author “Albert Bandura” and decided to try WorldCat after getting a bio for him from the Literature Resource Center database. There were some books by him, articles about him and 4 Web sites with images, linked pages, and tons of biographical information. I’m going to share all of this with my patron and Liz suggested I share it all with you, as well. Gotta love it when you can find a reason to use the state databases! Handed out a KS Library Card today to a community college student, too…for info about Marlowe, Shakespeare and Jonson.
WorldCat > FirstSearch Home > (insert search term) > Hit list or “List Databases by Topic > Click on “WorldCat” > Click on Search (redundant!) > Hit list or “WorldCat List of Records” > “Internet” tab to see a list of the web sites > click on the link to see the web page within the OCLC frame
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