 Good morning, and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I am Krista Burns at the Nebraska Library Commission And I have with me next to me us Susan Isley is going to be our presenter for this morning Encompass Live is the Nebraska Library Commission's weekly online event where we cover any sort of Library commission activities or any activities that might be of general interest to librarians in the state of Nebraska We do these sessions every Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. They are free and they are recorded so if you cannot attend a live session, you can always watch the recording later We do a mixture of different things presentations interviews webinars Mini training sessions just information sessions anything we think that may be of interest to librarians And this morning we have Susan as I said she's going to Tell us all about world care Hopefully what it is and how you can use it. I'm going to pass the mouse over So she didn't take control Okay, hi everybody I've got a lot of information to cover so I'll get started right away There we go As Krista said my name is Susan Isley, and I'm the online services librarian here at the library commission I've been here for about 10 years On this slide I just list some of the programs and activities that I am involved in on a regular basis at the library commission So you may have had contact with me via one of these other programs And I just want to go ahead and get started right away talking about what is world cat I always talk about world cat as being the most popular database available via OCLC's first search service and popular may not be the best word But it's certainly ubiquitous in the library community It's a central to lots of things that we do and librarians all across the world are going to be familiar with it World cat is a union catalog Which means it is a catalog containing holdings information contributed by many different libraries and It contains over a hundred and seventy four million records describing material owned by libraries around the world and What I always tell people when they're trying to figure out what they can actually search world cat for What they might find in world cat is think about all the different types of items libraries own and catalog So you've got your obvious items like books videos sound recordings maps manuscripts musical scores But you also have increasingly digital items digital objects sound recordings that are online digital photographs You also have interesting and unique items for instance. I even found a Catalog record describing a skeleton that one of the libraries owned so you know, you never know what you're gonna find in world cat something else I tell people is that Basically, whatever it is that you regularly search world cat for that's what it's going to look like it contains to you So if you're searching for genealogical information in world cat World cat seems like a wonderful repository of genealogical information if you're searching for You know popular fiction. That's what you're gonna find. So it really is a Place where you can find almost anything And something else to keep in mind world cat contains Records describing material in over 470 languages and dialects and also material dating back to a thousand BC So it really encapsulates the bibliographic universe and beyond When do you actually search world cat There are several reasons why you might search it and you can search for any time you're trying to Identify and locate an item that you don't own locally Either because you want to purchase an item You can't actually purchase it through world cat, but you can find information out about it You can see what other libraries collect in a particular Area so you can get ideas for color development Maybe you want to identify an item that you don't own because you want to refer your patrons to it Maybe another library in your community or a nearby community has something that your patrons can go and access there It's also the place to go when you want to find items that are available to request through interlibrary loan Whether you do your own interlibrary loan or whether you come through the library commission and we do interlibrary loan for you And this is the place that we go to identify the item and locate it And so it's a good place for you to search to when you want to find out what you can actually request This screen just captures a few more facts and statistics about world cat. I thought it was interesting to know that The database contains holdings information contributed by seventy two thousand libraries Located in a hundred and seventy one country so you really can't see how International it really is So how can you access world cat here in Nebraska? World cat is one of 13 databases That's available through Nebraska statewide first search subscription. We subscribe to something called the first search based package Primarily because we want everyone to have access to world cat If you if your library has signed up for Nebraska access then you actually have your own unique first search account Assigned to your library. You can access world cat that way Or and this is probably in Many cases I think the preferred method you can access world cat through an Account that we Established at the library commission and make available through Nebraska access it provides streamlined access to just world cat And that's what we're going to be looking at today On this screen just gives you some URLs that you would use to access world cat the first bullet point Gives you URLs you would use if you were going to go directly to first search and log into your first search account and then Second major bullet point gives you the access URL for Nebraska access the nice thing about the Nebraska access Method is that you can use a variety of means of getting authentication You can use IP recognition if your library has static IP addresses You can use the Nebraska access password that we provide to libraries That come those are changed twice a year Or and this is primarily of benefit to people in Nebraska who don't Have a library that they are served by they can also get access to the Nebraska driver's license number and I did include we're not going to go to this link, but I did include a link to page on our website That actually provides you with detailed information on all of your different linking options for providing access to the database So we've included the html code that you would include on your own website if you wanted to link directly to Nebraska access or directly to world cat or whatever. So that is a resource available for you I just want to say for anyone watching right now The PowerPoint presentation will be you don't need to try and scribble down all these URLs right now On the private presentation after this session will be loaded up to the commission slide share page And all of these links will have in our delicious account. So we'll have direct links into there for you as well Good. Yeah, and that's why I included all these URLs on here so that you would have access to them later Just a reminder if you've gotten a password you can always contact us at the library commission and we can provide you with that information and I don't know that this is the case for anyone today, but I wanted to include this slide Because it this is going up as a recording There are occasionally still libraries and schools that we stumble across that have never signed up for Nebraska access And so I did want to include the URL for the registration form And this is free and it's not anything you have to purchase right States paid for this for you. We just need your information to know that you want to access and then we get you set up At this point, I want to go ahead and go directly to world cat and start doing some demoing for you Do you think can we maybe this be a good time to check see if anybody has any questions? Anybody have any questions at this point If you have a question you can raise your hand We can unmute you if you have a microphone or you can type into the questions section if you want to Okay, I Doesn't look like anybody has questions So feel free raise your hand at any point throughout that you want to if you do have a question Just to let us know we'll see that pop up and we'll know that you want to ask Okay, I'm gonna go ahead and start out on the Nebraska access website That's Nebraska access dot any dot gov and this is a website. We put together to Present information that we've compiled. It's really aimed at end users your patrons So it includes a directory of a Subject directory of internet resources Compiled by our reference staff and it also provides access to the statewide databases and that's where we're going today So I'm going to go ahead and click on databases available to Nebraskans Mistakes you to the page that lists all of the databases available through Nebraska access. I Just want to point out that if you do want to access the first search account that provides access to all 13 First search databases including world cat you can do so down here If you want to access the streamlined world cat account That link is up here, and that's what I usually use and that's what I would imagine Most people would want to use if they're regular world cat searchers We'll go ahead and pop in And I do want to point out Since it's not necessarily obvious Authentication happens at the point where you click on the database name In my case I have IP address recognition here So when I clicked on the world cat link it automatically logged me into the database If I was accessing it from a computer outside the library commission and that didn't have IP access I would have been prompted to log in with either a Nebraska access password or a Nebraska driver's license number So that's the point at which you should expect to see authentication If you don't have the IP access set up, okay This is the world cat advanced search screen and we made this the default search screen in world cat and I'll tell you a little bit about why we did that World cat is such a huge database that if you just do a really basic search you're going to be overwhelmed with results and You really need to learn how to limit and refine your searches in world cat I think the advanced search screen Does a pretty good job of presenting what some of your limit options are and so we want patrons and librarians To come here and actually see what some of their limit options are Our concern is that if people went directly to the basic search screen They just do their search there and they never know what tools they have to improve their search So maybe completely overwhelmed, right? And if we have time I'll actually show you an example of a search What it would look like if it had been done from the basic search screen and then show you what more you can do advanced search screen I want to go ahead and start out Again, there are basically two types of searches people do in world cat They come to world cat and they know exactly what they're looking for they're searching for a known item So, you know, you might do an author title search Or they're trying to see what's out there on a particular topic So they've got some criteria and I'm looking for material that match that criteria So we're going to start out with the most straightforward type of search an author title search and I'm picking an item that I know is going to be well represented in the database so I'm typing in new moon and Then over here to the right I can specify what type of search or which field I want to look for new moon in So that's the title. So I'm going to scroll down here and Select title and then I'm also going to type in the author's name in this next search box. So Stephanie Meyer, I don't know if any of you guys have this problem But I often her name isn't spelled like Stephanie usually so many times. I've had problems finding finding her And in this case, I'm going to go ahead and select author So I've done a basic author title search. That's fairly specific and I do my search And I this is just an example that shows you even when you're doing a specific search in this case I retrieved a hundred and forty nine different records I'm describing different editions of this work If you look here, you'll say 84 of these records describe English language material and If I wanted to at this point if I knew I wanted English language materials I could just click on that 84 right now and limit my search But let's go ahead and take a look You can see how the results are broken down by document type the hundred and forty nine results Are made up of a hundred and twelve records describing books 17 records describing sound recordings, etc When you scroll through the result list, you will see an icon to the left of each record that gives you a visual Clue asked of the format So you can see record number one describes a book record number two describes a book Record number three describes a sound recording And I just want to point out in the case of the sound recording if you look Within the brief record you'll see another icon and it just provides you with a little more specific information about the type of sound recording So in this case, it's a compact disc as opposed to Audio cassette is the other type of sound recording you see frequently Record number four describes the DVD video for the movie You'll see record number five. We've got our first foreign language editions. We've got a Spanish language edition showing up Record six. It's a book, but you can see it's a large print So I guess what I want you to see at this point is just there are lots of great visual cues That let you know right away what each record represents I'm just gonna jump quickly to the next result screen. So we're gonna go look at records 11 through 20 and Again, you know Looks fairly similar, but slightly different editions and I just want to point out. I think this is kind of neat Here's the Chinese language edition of new moon So You never know, but yeah, you never know what you're gonna find when you're searching world cat Okay, so We got a lot of results I could start doing some limiting at this point by clicking on tabs and selecting some limit options here But I just want to go ahead and show you what I would typically do Since I'm used to searching world cat. I know how many results I'm gonna get so if I know off the bat that I'm looking for a book and I want English language. I'll usually just write off the bat say I Want English is my language and here under document type I want book so when I first do a search. I probably do this in most cases and you'll see That drops me down to 54 records still a lot, but it's a little bit narrower and more streamlined one Thing I want to point out And this sort of mitigates the fact that you get so many results the default sort order is that The records that are held by the most like the records describing items that are held by the most libraries appear at the top of the list So that basically means that The records you see first are going to be describing items that are going to be the easiest to get your hands on Lots of libraries are going to own that particular edition if it's something you need to enter a library loan Your chances of being able to find one willing to lend it to you are higher So, you know for the most part you're not going to have to be looking through all 54 records The first couple will probably do it for you. Let's go ahead and jump in and look at the detailed record for one of these The information that's available in the detailed record varies from item to item, but You can often find obviously title author in some cases. You'll find cover art in Some cases you'll find a summary describing what the book is about in a couple sentences occasionally you will have an access URL and if the item being described is actually a digital object like An audio book or a digital image the URL will actually take you to that image In this particular case the URL just takes you to a Some information about the book at the Library of Congress. So in that case, it's not particularly useful If you scroll through the record, it's typical bibliographic information about the book And then at the very bottom, I just want to point out The OCLC accession number And this number looks fairly innocuous, but it's actually very useful This number is a unique identifier that identifies this that the Edition of new moon described in this particular record This is actually the number that people use to make an interlibrary loan request So whether you do interlibrary loan at your library or whether you come through us If you are a patron who's identified what they want in WorldCat If they write down this OCLC accession number and provide it to their interlibrary loan librarian They know that the librarian is going to get to the exact same item that they were looking at so So that's very useful. I know our reference staff appreciate getting those OCLC numbers when library Librarians have actually looked the item up on WorldCat and identified it It's just a double check for us to make sure we're getting you the exact item that you were interested in Okay, the other link that I want to be sure we take a look at within this record is The library's worldwide that own item You'll see this live this item is owned by 3157 libraries So I'm going to go ahead and click on it and the first thing you'll notice is that This list consists exclusively of Nebraska libraries and it's nowhere near 3000 So I just always like to give people a little bit of background information about how Library holding libraries are displayed What OCLC uses is some sort of algorithm if a lot of libraries in your state own an item then by default what you're going to see is just a list of the libraries in your state that own the item if a few Libraries in your state own an item, but quite a few Libraries in surrounding states own it then you'll see what's a regional display and Then in some cases a few libraries in your state and a few libraries in surrounding states own it In that case, then you'll see a list of all the libraries worldwide that own it With it in this particular account We've set it up so you can override that default display though There's a link that says display all libraries and you can always click on that and then you'll see All the libraries worldwide that have indicated to OCLC they own this particular edition so That's useful information. The other thing you might notice is that some of the library names are highlighted In those particular instances that means that the library has gone into their Unique first search account and they've entered a URL for their catalog and So that allows you to actually jump to their catalog to see if they actually have the item on the shelf and if it's available So There are two ways you'll typically see this done and it really depends on the capacity the capabilities of the library's catalog In some cases and I'm going to click on Grand Island here That link will just take you to the catalogs main search page And you can re enter your search and then find a listing for that particular item in the catalog This looks like it's taking a long time Okay But basically it takes you to the opening screen of their catalog and you can retype in Stephanie Meyer search In some instances and let's see if Carney's works They can set it up so that you can jump out to their catalog and it actually redos the search for you So you get to a holding screen you get the Call numbers you find out whether the item is checked out or on the shelf or lost etc So, you know, this is particularly nice if you have Patrons who have access to multiple libraries and you know, you want to just say run across town and you can get this there And it's also sometimes helpful when you're talking To a patron about it in your library alone, you can you know, you can tell them well, it looks like it's available And it's on the shelf in different libraries So, you know, we're probably not gonna have any trouble getting a hold of it for you So that's all information that you can use to, you know, work with your patrons Okay at this point That's sort of our run-through of Basic search for known item and hopefully gives you anyone who maybe hasn't worked with world cat a lot an overview of What information is available and how to use it? So I want to go ahead and go back and do some searching now So I'm going to go up here and click on the search tab And I want to point out here this clear button in world cat when you've got all these limit options, it's really easy to You know accidentally leave some limit option checked So if you're going to come back here and do a new search It's good to get in the habit of clicking that clear button so that gets rid of all of the Selections you've made And what I want to do now is I want to give you an example of the other type of search This is when a patron comes in and they have a vague idea what type of book they want But they don't have an author or a title And so you you can use world cat to help identify what they might be interested in So in this particular case what we're going to be searching for is adult biographies about spies Now a patron's not going to come in probably and say I'm looking for adult biographies about spies They're probably probably going to come in and say yeah I like to read books about spies and so You're going to have to negotiate with them at that point to find out what exactly it is they want and This is the search why I want to jump to the basic search screen for a moment and show you what would happen If you did a basic search For a broad topic like this, so I'm going to jump to the basic search screen And you can see how limited it is if you have an author in the title you might be able to get pretty good results But in this particular instance all we know is the patron once books about spies So about all I can do is type in spies and Notice this is a keyword search. It's not even a subject search So it's going to retrieve any record that has the word spies in it almost anywhere And there's not really any useful way I can limit that so if I did that particular search I get over 28,000 Results so you can see that basic search screen is really not a good option I'm going to go ahead and jump back to my advanced search screen and Let's go ahead and redo this search. I'm going to type spies I'm going to go ahead and specify that I want to do a subject search for spy spies and I'm just going to go ahead and do it at this point just to show you how much difference keyword versus subject makes so You know that now we're down to 12,452 Titles still a huge number too many don't really look through but we've cut our results in half from what we were able to get to on the basic search screen so at this point You're going to want to find some ways to limit and so you're probably going to be doing some sort of reference interview with the patron and find out Okay. Wow. Are you interested in you know? Spy novels or are you interested in? nonfiction books about spies and maybe you find out that the patron really wants They really like to read about real spies and so that gives you a lot more information So I'd go through here and I'd say okay English language. That's one limiter. I Know I went to book And then you can come down to these subtype limiters and you have an audience option and you can specify juvenile or Adult which they list as not juvenile so you know you can tell if the person wants an adult or a juvenile title and Then you also have a content Limitered over here and you've got a fiction option a Not fiction option and so we could theoretically use the not fiction option But if you look One down on the list you'll see there's also a specific biography option So, you know if you know they want to read about individual spies as opposed to you know a work that talks about spying throughout history, you know, you can go ahead and click on biography and We do your search and we're down to Let me go back and we do that. That's actually I think I missed one of my limit options here spies subject oh I know what I did When I was preparing for this I did stick in a year limit or I thought well, let's There's probably lots of current material on this topic. So let's just limit it that way too. So in 1995 And then I left to the ending date open So that would be through the present and then that that will also get anything that still has a future date every once in a while You'll get a pre pub record in WorldCat. So it might have a 2011 date Okay, so now I'm down to 680 results and if you just look at the titles you can tell that they pretty much are about specific spies and so that's a pretty good way to narrow a search and Identify items that would meet what your patron was looking for one final way you can limit a search like this Would be by library if a particular library is A contributor to OCLC they contribute their holdings information to OCLC They will have a library code assigned to them. So if you know that code You could type that in and limit your search to a specific library This is something you may or may not be interested in doing I know sometimes I'll actually search WorldCat and limit it to Lincoln City libraries Because that's just down the street from me and I'm more comfortable searching WorldCat than my local library catalog So if I wanted to do that I would I know that their code is NLN If you don't know Library code, there's a little link that you can click on to find codes and it lets you search by library name And then also one of the final pages of screens of my PowerPoint I have URL that takes you to a document on our website that lists the codes for Nebraska libraries that Have their holdings represented in OCLC. So That there are a couple ways you can get those codes So this is Lincoln City libraries and now I've got my results down to 33. So You know, it's not that hard to go from really large result sets to manageable and very focused results in WorldCat Okay, so now I want to go ahead and show you Like I said, I'll usually stick limiters on my searches right away and That sometimes works really well and occasionally it does backfire But I don't it's not necessarily a problem as long as you are Flexible and you're always willing to sort of redo your search once you look at your results and analyze So I just want to show you another example of a search that I might do and it might not work out Well the first time that I'll show you how I revise it. So This is another example of going from broad to narrow Or anyway, I think I'm going from broad to narrow I'm looking for juvenile fiction that would be set in World War two So if I were gonna look for that type of material, I'd come down here and I'd say world War two that sounds like a logical subject heading. So I'm gonna select World War two and Say subject search for that as a subject English language I Want juvenile and I want Fiction so that seems like a pretty logical search. I do my search and I get four results Now this is where the more experience you have as a searcher better off you are You know somebody who's not very experienced might think they're only four books. They're only four Fixed juvenile fiction books set in World War two. Wow, you know, this is really Not a very great database Who knew there were so few books like this? When you've got a little more experience, you think, okay, this is this can't be right This is a huge database. There's gonna be lots of books that meet that search criteria. So that means Something was wrong with my search. My search didn't work the way I thought it should so all you need to do is go back to your search screen and And you know at this point I would think okay Well World War two maybe isn't the subject heading but I bet the phrase World War two appears somewhere within the record So I'm gonna put my search My little World War two statement in quotation marks and I'm going to switch from a subject search to a keyword search There we go And I'm gonna leave everything else the same and I'm gonna redo my search So now I've gone from four records to 979 and These are looking pretty good At this point I'd pop That search is probably gonna do you fine So you could probably stop at that point if you want but If you're an anal retentive searcher like I am you'd probably come down here and you'd look at the Descriptor or subject heading field and you'd look and see The subject heading is not World War two. It's World War comma 1939 to 1945 And so I would come back here probably And I type in World War 1935 and Again, this is personal preference The previous search that we did the keyword on World War two probably retrieved a lot of books that meet the search criteria But I always you know, I hate to think that there's one really great book I got away from me because my search didn't cover it. So I always like to keep trying so and Notice when I do use the correct subject heading My search results jump up again to 2312 So this is a situation where Don't really think there's any other way to narrow or limit the search unless I wanted to limit by date or holding library I think it's probably a good search result. I went from narrow and only a few results to more results But I still think that that's a good search in terms of giving me a good Representative picture of what's out there on this particular topic Looking at my time. We still have 15 minutes a couple other examples I'm gonna go back to the search screen and hit clear and I sort of alluded to this before but I want to say it a little more directly I think it is really really useful if you have a page and come in and Ask you to find a particular type of book for them And if they're not really clear on what they want they can't really articulate it exactly what it is They want if you can get them to sit down next to you while you do a world cat search That can be really useful because sometimes You can pull up Result list that has a lot of different types of items in it And they might not be able to describe in words what they want But when they see it in a list of results, they can easily say oh, that's not what I want That's more what I'm looking for and then you can sort of put it into words what it is. They're looking for And I think that's true even for librarians sometimes a patron will come and they'll ask you for something and What they're asking for is really vague, but you don't know enough about the subject to even ask good questions in order to You know pin them down on what they want sometimes if you Do a search in world cat while they're there you look at the result list You'll get ideas about what to ask them in order to narrow it down. So One example I have is say a patient comes in and they say I want meditation CDs and You know, you might not know exactly what do they need meditation CDs But you might not really know what to ask them and they can't really explain any more than that, you know Meditation CDs. I want meditation CDs. So you can type in meditation and again, I'm going to try that as a subject and You could do the generic sound recording which would cover Cassettes and CDs But if you're able to confirm with them that they really are only interested in CD format You can come down to this format drop-down menu and say CD audio And You know, this is not a very specific search, but you do it and Then if you look through the result list with them, you'll see On the first thing you'll start noticing is that a lot of these records describe audio books There's basically it's a book about meditation that has been turned into an audio book. You'll see here. It says Non music lecture speeches compact disc Here's another non music compact disc So they might be able to tell you right away. Oh, that's not what I want. I don't want to listen to a book about Meditation I want a CD that well like I can listen to while I'm meditating You know, maybe like number seven here is one that says circle songs by Bobby McFerrin it says it's music and It's a compact disc You can go ahead and look at that Get a little bit more of a sense of how it's described in the record Yeah, I've clicked on it twice. That's probably enough Well, I'm not gonna wait. I'm gonna jump back to the search screen, but I will tell you there is a specific subject heading Music for meditation So one option you would have would be to change your subject search to music for meditation and then CDs Or you could also come down here and under content You do have a choice between do you want a musical recording or do you want a non-musical recording? So a non-musical recording would be spoken word usually and You can say I want a musical recording here and you can redo your search And now you should be able to tell From the titles these are all music CDs yoga zone music for meditation Japanese flute music for meditation earth drums, you know, so Again, I just think this is a good example of when if you look through a list of results with the patron They might be able to tell you no, that's not what I mean. That's not what I mean That's this is more what I'm looking for. So You still got ten minutes, that's good I do want to go back and I do always like to make sure people are aware of the option to limit by language Because we do have population various populations in Nebraska that speak Their their native language is something other than English and so you may have people coming in saying, you know I want this book, but I want I want to read it in my my native language, so I'm just gonna go ahead and do you And Down here and this time I'm gonna select Spanish since that is a language that many of you serve people who speak Spanish and book I'm going to do that search and This brings up ten records. So there are ten different editions That are in Spanish The one thing I want to point out here is When you look at the lists of libraries that own them If you're trying to find out if a specific library owns a Spanish language edition And you don't see that library listed here in this first list There are two things to keep in mind first They're not there many libraries in Nebraska that don't catalog with OCLC And so their holdings aren't going to be represented in the WorldCat database That doesn't mean they don't have this particular edition of the book It just means that you're not going to find that holdings information in WorldCat So that's one thing to keep in mind The other thing to keep in mind is that there are multiple editions So maybe the library you're interested in doesn't own this edition, but you have nine Additional editions to look at so I'm going to jump back to the list of records and then You know you want to keep working your way through the list and looking to see maybe the library that you're interested in owns One of the other editions, so that's something to keep in mind Now one other thing that sometimes happens is somebody will be so thrilled to find out that you can actually Interlibrary loan material for them in their native language You know maybe the first time they came in they had a specific author and title But then they'll say what else is out there that you can get me in Spanish You know I want to see a list of all the stuff you could possibly get me That is that can be done, but it's not quite so straightforward. And so I want to show you that So somebody wants to read you know contemporary fiction written in Spanish adult fiction in Spanish. So let's go Spanish Books adult Fiction So that seems like pretty straightforward search, but what happens is It says no search terms were found And That's because nothing was typed in these search boxes There's a way around that But it's not necessarily intuitive So I just want to point it out. You can't actually type your language up here and Then one of your drop-down menus one of your limit options for freight is you can search the language phrase field So I'm going to search for Spanish in language phrase that that puts a search term up there in this area Where it wants a search term? I'm going to do books audience adult fiction and Let's just say since they want contemporary stuff. Let's just say you know 1990 to present so when you do it in the search box you do that instead of the Do that instead of the language you don't have to go you don't have to do both I'm not sure what happens if you do do both. Maybe not So, you know, I've got 123,000 records now that I can show and You know, here's the house on mango Street by Sandra Cisneros the Da Vinci code You know, you'll recognize many of the titles because they're contemporary fiction that is Been popular. So, you know Like I said that sometimes the follow-up question You'll get once someone finds out that you can get them for language material. They want to know what else you can get That's the easy way to do it We are about out of time and So I'm gonna think it's probably smart to stop right now and See if there are any questions Does anybody have any questions right now? I know I covered a lot But we have about five more minutes. So Michelle says she has a question. Um, you can unmute her. We'll see if she has a microphone Michelle if you have a microphone, you can go ahead and talk into your microphone. If not, you can just type your question into Yep, we hear you you heard somebody Michelle we have you and you did if you want to go ahead I'm gonna hand the mouse over to Christa so she can we're not hearing for some reason Okay. All right, Michelle. Yeah, you don't have a microphone. That's fine. Go ahead and type your question into the questions box We'll see it there We do have a question as you previously we can go back to and do that while you're go ahead and type while you are Michelle on that Susie Dunn had when is it a Good idea to use the title or subject phrase phrase option up So the question was when to use the title phrase or the subject phrase And I know I've had good examples of this in the past But let me see if I can think of some off the top of my head The top the title phrase index is Basically an exact Title search so that means that if you have any little part of the title wrong and you're doing a title phrase search You won't find Your result exactly. So you have to be very precise When it works is if you're doing a title search You're getting lots of extraneous results because lots of other books have the same title the same words in the title as what you have in your title, so Let me just go ahead and do Let me just try this Margaret Atwood has a book out called Year of the Flood Let me just see what happens when I do a title search for that In this particular case, I do get her book right away, but you'll see there are lots of other titles that also Contain Somewhere within these records. They probably have some you know Title feels that have year of the flood in them If I were to go back and redo this search as a title phrase search As long as I have my title Correct It will just bring up Books that have that exact title You see it's hers and another book the same title different author number three there. Oh, yeah You have to look beyond that. Yeah People have shared a title. Yes, people can use the same title So that's an example Where it can make a difference Especially if whatever book you're looking for doesn't show up right away. You've got a long list The other thing you can do instead of doing a title phrase search is you can come over here and click on this This is a browse button and it lets you browse The title phrase index and so that's an alphabetical index of all the titles in the database and So you can see here Year of the fling fling year of the what labor year of the fling year of the flood So, you know, that's another way to search sometimes you'll have the beginning of the title Correct, but there'll be something wrong towards the end of it. Maybe a patron gave you slightly You know, maybe they gave you a slightly incorrect title. It has even the wrong preposition If you if you go in here and browse and look for Alphabetically you'll often spot it The same thing goes for subject headings If I type in something like Let's do my world war search again If I just do you know subject search It will find it'll retrieve records that have You know more specific subject headings, this is a portion of the subject heading that they may have You know Right, so if I just do World War two 1939-1945 I get but 427,000 If I I believe It's just going to The exact subject heading So well, it did it did reduce a little bit so, you know, that's again, that's something that you can play around But when you use the phrase index you have to be you have to exactly match what is Being used or what's in the index so it it can be very useful, but you got to be careful. You got to be I'm gonna let's see if we had that We had Hers was the same thing she had a question about title phrase Okay, okay, great, and I think we had an echo because maybe we unmuted Somebody we maybe I needed people for questions and we're getting some feedback. So any other questions anybody has You can raise your hand if you have a question or you can just type right in the questions box We have that open so we can see If you do have any, okay, well, okay, if we don't have any question Do you have anything else in the PowerPoint that you wanted to show um? You said there's another slide. Let's just see what we've got This that's just my contact information if you ever do have questions about world cat feel free to give me a call Sometimes we have patrons or librarians call us. There's some search. It's just not working You know what you're looking for should be in there and sometimes it'll take a couple of us You know figure out what's going on, but you know, we're always willing to you know Co-search with you. I just want you to be aware that I've got some URLs for additional sources of information There's a handout that I use when we do world cat training during the database road show We've got some world cat practice questions and answers Here's the URL for the document that lists the Three leather codes for Nebraska libraries if you ever want to limit a world cat search to Nebraska libraries and Finally, there's a document that OCLC put together on using world cat for genealogy so that something that might be of interest also Finally, I just wanted to leave you with some of the upcoming sessions that are coming in future weeks We actually have one for next week that it wasn't Oh, yeah, so you can see here this next one that she has is the April 21st tech talk Which is two weeks from now But we do have one schedule for next week that hopefully Jeanette is in the process of getting up on the counter We just finalized it yesterday So actually next week's on April 14th will be some librarians who have attended PLA use With grants they received the library commission for the funding to get them there So we have some librarians libraries and I'm varying from John stall library That'll be coming and talking about all their experiences at attending PLA this year, which was in So that will actually be the one that should be up in the calendar today if it's not there already For April 14th, and then this is our next three after that that we have coming up. Okay, great. Thanks for all so thanks for coming today thank you very much and we will and This has been recorded so we will have it out to you also to listen to this if you want to and hopefully you'll join Us next week in the weeks after this for future ones. Thank you very much And thanks everybody for attending. Bye. Bye. Bye