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1 1 Online Searching, 4 th ed. Chapter 7 WorldCat Search Example 5: Finding Materials in Other Libraries (the mystery of the British Journal of Clinical- something-or-other at SUNY Buffalo) pp. 143 – 144 Librarian’s Guide to Cultivating Database Skills for Research and Instruction

2 2 Maybe we could just look it up in the Title Phrase index… …or… maybe not! There are 5 screens of British Journal of Clinical [x] listings. Easier to just truncate and limit to the library that is supposed to have it.

3 3 Quick, back to the search interface: Expert tip: if you tab to the dropdown, and then type t… and t again… it will auto-move to the Title Phrase field (e.g., the second field beginning with “t”). Same for other fields. Once you get familiar with the choices/field names, just tab and type. Now to find that library code:

4 4 Presto! Well, geez, that was easy. Presto! Well, geez, that was easy.

5 5 Beyond the Textbook Moment: Although we probably don’t need to (with “Journal” in the title), we could have also Limited to material type: Serial Publications Beyond the Textbook Moment: Although we probably don’t need to (with “Journal” in the title), we could have also Limited to material type: Serial Publications Search example 5 ready to run:

6 6 Argh, what a shifting target everything is. The University of Rochester has pulled its holdings from WorldCat, so it no longer shows up as owning this journal (as described in the textbook): But the University of Wisconsin libraries DO have it (go badgers), so here is their record, showing the “local library owns it” indicator:


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