World Cat

    I was excited to use World Cat because I've never actually used it before. I found it very handy, but not very user friendly. It was almost information overload, and too many different options. I will have to continue to play with it to become more familiar, although I started to get the hang of it after awhile. As far as searching for a book, I ended up lookin up Ernie Pyle's "Brave Men". I choose this book because I had an old copy sitting in my office that needs replaced, so I figured I would learn more about the book while I'm at it. There was a total of 69 results for Brave Men, and the number of libraries that possessed it were 1, 436. The Dewey number was 940.542, which was nice to know because our copy was only 940.5.  I also found the list of other works by  Pyle which included Here is your war and and a collection of his WWII dispatches. I believe he was killed in the Pacific Theater towards the end of the war, making his works all the more valuable. From the Ernie Pyle page I had links to books on World War 2, the Pacific, and numerous other topics, but I choose to look at the war correspondents page. Pyle was on the list with several others such as Andrew Rooney and Philip Caputo.
  With OAIster I searched South Dakota and for some unexplained reason came up with several links to articles about the Minnesota State Legislature. However, I eventually found a link to a photograph entitled:
 " Indian shooting a steer for a beef issue at the Sioux Indian Agency at Pine Ridge."

There wasn't much background information about the photograph, although I know that the agency's allowed the Indians to "hunt" game in a locked pen in order to try to recreate the old lifestyle.

All in all I found World Cat to be helpful but a little to confusing right off the bat. With practice though I should be able to learn it better, and when I do I think it will become a very useful tool.