California Libraries Catalog Training Exercises

California Libraries Catalog

Training Exercises

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EXERCISE SET I

Check to make sure you are at the Basic Search Screen and that you’re searching the California Catalog with the limit set to All California Libraries

1. Search for The News from Paraguay by Lily Tuck. Looking at the HarperCollins edition with the greatest number of holding libraries, how many California libraries hold this material?______________

2. Your patron is searching for a book of poems by Donald Justice. How would you suggest the patron construct the search?__________________________________________________________

How many California libraries hold the 2004 title that was distributed by Random House? _______What is the title of the book?___________________________

3. Your patron has heard of an 1850 election notice for the state of California and would like to know if it’s available through the library. How would you suggest your patron construct the search? ________________________________________________________________

Once you find it, how many California libraries have a copy? ________

4. Your patron is looking for a book from 1980 about African-American cultural history in San Francisco. They believe the author’s last name is Daniels or Douglas. How would you suggest the patron construct the search? ________________________________________________________________

What is the author’s name and what is the title of the book?___________________________________________________________

5. Your patron is searching for a book about places in Southern California’s South Bay area to take her visiting nephews. All that your patron recalls about the book was that it came out in the mid-90’s and the title has something do with “kids and the south bay” How would you suggest the patron construct the search?__________________________________________________________

What is the title of the book and who is the author?__________________________________________________________

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EXERCISE SET II

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1. Search for the compact disc version of The Bourne Legacy published by Books-on-Tape. How many libraries hold this CD version?

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2. Find the accession number for the DVD of The Five People You Meet in Heaven. ______________________

3. Your patron is looking for the book Tumbling and believes the author’s last name to be Whetsone. What is the author’s last name? _______________ What is the accession number of the William Morrow publication?________

4. Search for ISBN 0374152047. What is the title of the book by Denise Chavez? _____________________

5. Search for an Inspector Espinosa mystery entitled The Silence of the Rain. What is the accession number of the H.Holt & Co. Edition? ____________

6. Your patron is looking for Daniel Cano’s last book about Chicano Vietnam vets. What is the title of the book?___________________________

7. Search for ISSN 0043-5597. What is the title of serial?__________________

8. Your patron is looking for the large print edition of Bebe Moore Campbell’s book Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine. What is the accession number?_____________

9. Bill Moyers did an interview with Molly Ivins in 2003. Your patron is trying to locate the PBS home video because of their interest in Mr. Moyer’s second interview that evening. Who was that guest?___________________________ What is the accession number?__________ Not finding a record in the California Libraries Catalog, execute the same search in WorldCat.

10. Your patron is looking for a James Earl Jones recording of Wright’s book Native Son. Searching the California Libraries Catalog, what is the accession number for the LP sound recording ? _____________________

11. What is the title of Ernest Gaines’ most recently published book? ____________________________

12. Your patron needs to see a copy of the revision to the IEEE Std 739-1995. How many California libraries hold this title?________________________(HINT: Suggest that your patron try searching the NOTES index for this standard)

13. Your patron can remember only one word from the title they are look for—“voices”, but they are certain the author’s last name is Pimentel. What is the title of the book they are looking for? _____________________________

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EXERCISE SET III

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1. The patron who was looking for a James Earl Jones recording of Wright’s book Native Son would like to know which libraries have the LP version. Suggest one library that has provided a link to the catalog (blue underlined) that the patron might check to see if it’s available. ______________________________________________________________Check the shelf status at University of California, San Diego, is it available? _____________________

2. The patron who was looking for the large print edition of Bebe Campbell’s book Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine would like to request the material through ILL.

Place a request for your patron Sarah Campbell. Her address is 3281 E. Guasti Road, Suite 560, Ontario, CA 91761. Be sure to let the instructor know if you don’t receive a message that says “Your resource sharing request was sent successfully.”

3. Search for ISBN 0374152047, The Face of an Angel, again. This time though limit your search to libraries in the Greater Bay Area. How many libraries in this geographic area hold the material? _______________Find a library for your patron that currently has the book available. Write down the name of the library.________________________________________________________

4. The patron who was searching for a Books-on-Tape edition of The Bourne Legacy needs to find a copy for her father who lives in the Sacramento area. Limit your search to this geographic area. Find a library for your patron that currently has the tapes available. Write down the name of the library._______________________________________________________

5. The patron who was searching for Ernest Gaines A Lesson Before Dying would like to request the material through ILL.

Place a request for your patron Sarah Campbell. Her address is 3281 E. Guasti Road, Suite 560, Ontario, CA 91761. (The form should be populated with this information, given that you have already sent one request.) Be sure to let the instructor know if you don’t receive a message that says “Your resource sharing request was sent successfully”

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