WorldCat/First Search

I searched for "The Dressmaker of Khair Khana". I forgot to limit by books on my first try so clicked on tab that said books on my results screen. I had 10 matches. Three of which were not English so I could limit to English language also to just get a list of the 7. The first match said that 1522 libraries world wide owned this. When I clicked on the link, the libraries were listed with the SD libraries first. The first library was Alexander Mitchell. The call number or class descriptor listed are LC: DS375.K2; Dewey: 958.1; B. This is the author's only title and it wasn't really a good choice to find other titles with the subjects links. Most of them just listed the same editions of this title again but under one subject I did find, "Kabul Beauty School : an American woman goes behind the veil ".

I searched for South Dakota in OAIster. On my screen in "Advanced Search," I don't have "subject phrase" just "subject" in the drop down so it searched as a boolean search as "south and dakota". There were over 53,000 matches of which almost 1,900 were in OAIster. Then I searched it as "south dakota" (south w dakota) which resulted in a few less matches. From the records, I was able look at photos in some collections. Some of the records I tried to access required a login or were restricted. The list of records indicates what type of material the item is. So if you were looking for visual materials you could pick these out. I didn't see a way to limit the results by type of material like you can in a WorldCat search.

I also tried another search, Afghanistan. I wanted to see how the black buttons, above left of the results screen, worked. I clicked on related subjects and related authors. Related subjects is an easy way to look at the subject list for the titles in the results list. They're ranked by the % of use. Could be a useful way to zero in on a research topic. I tried selecting some titles and then emailing them to myself. So far, no email but that might have something to do with firewalls. I've used this before so I'm sure it works.