2. How Do You Request an Interlibrary Loan from the Worldcat Database?

WorldCat Practice Questions

1. How can you get a citation for an item in WorldCat? Which citation styles are available?

2. How do you request an Interlibrary Loan from the WorldCat database?

3. How do you limit a search to just journals in WorldCat?

4. A J.R.R. Tolkien fan wants to know how many libraries around the world (approximately) have a copy of the 1966 publication of "The Hobbit".

5. “I’m looking for the Journal of Management Education in paper,” a patron on chat writes. Can you find this in Infokat? Can you find it in WorldCat?

6. A faculty member sends you an e-mail asking whether or not UK has the book, Remaking Eden: cloning and beyond in a brave new world by Lee M. Silver. Does UK have this book? How many libraries in Kentucky have it?

7. A student comes to you asking for the journal, "Computer & control abstracts". What is the name of the library closest to UK that has this journal?

8. A psychology student comes to the desk looking for an article in the 1967 issue (volume 19) of the Australian Journal of Psychology. Do we have this available at UK?

9. A music student is trying to find a musical score of "The Magic Flute". She has searched Infokat, but is unsure whether or not any of those results are actually music scores. Can you find this for her on WorldCat? Does UK have it?

10. A patron comes to you with a problem. He says that last week he found this really great Internet resource in WorldCat, but he can't remember how he got to it. It was about global warming, and was written in Spanish. However, the patron can't remember the title of it. How would you help him find this?