After learning more about the tools available to me, I'm really thankful for the RevWorks tool. It is making my life so much easier with my research project for my history class. I wish I had known about it before I had to turn in my first research component in history. I really appreciated the presentation from last Friday as well. It has helped me refine my searches quite a bit.
I noticed when looking at the Great River Regional Library OPAC, there were many different libraries to reference. I like the Miller Center OPAC much better though. It seems to be a little easier for me to use. I'm sure that has a lot to do with it being the first method I learned.
The one issue I have with the Miller Center is it's so overwhelming because I think I could just live there and read and that definitely isn't feasible.
Project Update
17 years ago
Hi Cameron,
ReplyDeleteI actually have responded to this post twice...this is the third time I have commented...I have been reviewing everyone's blogs this morning, and keep finding this most recent comment to say "0 Comments". I will have to find out why this happened!
In any case, what I have been trying to say was that in the Miller Center OPAC, it is also possible to find out what resources exist in different libraries within the MNPals system. This feature is not as important for SCSU patrons as it would be for the general public using a large public library system, so they hide it. Also, our collection is much larger than most public libraries, and so to show results from all library collections at once would really be overwhelming!
If you did want to see if there was book within the MNPals system, you could do an Advanced Search in the Miller Center OPAC, and underneath the search windows there is a pulldown menu called "Library to Search". You can ask the Circulation Department whether or not, as an SCSU student, you can borrow books from any of those libraries if they are close to you.
See you in class...
R. Wexelbaum