When searching in the advanced search tab, when I went over to keyword the drop down menu gave me many choices for searching. I could search by author, title, ISBN, material type, publisher and so on. I played around with this and tried the different ways to search for a book. I have not used WorldCat before so am impressed with all of the search options.
The book I searched was Heir of Novron (an Interlibrary loan request). When I clicked on #1 402 other libraries had the book. The first library listed was Brookings Public followed by Sioux Falls Public. I could not pull up their records for some reason but could pull up other records. The call number was Science Fiction. I found other books written by this author. It was the 3rd in a trilogy.
In the OAIster database the result I Choose was "Letter from Sinclair Lewis to Marcella Powers, May 14, 1942". This was quite interesting to read It gave me the object which was regarding Lewis' journey through North and South Dakota. I could also browse St Cloud State University's Sinclair Lewis Collection I can see where you could find all kinds of information in this database.
I do Interlibrary Loans in our library & this will be a great place to look when looking for certain books which are not found in South Dakota libraries. I'm excited to try this as it can be frustrating when looking for certain materials.
So glad you got to try this, Shelly, as it is exactly the place to go for interlibrary loan items not available in SD! Thanks for the good report.
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