Hi Everyone. I did an advance search for Martin Luther and used the audience level to find books that were not to far over the 4th and 5th graders heads. A couple of the books I suggested were My Life with Martin Luther King Jr because it looked like it might have some interesting tidbits. The Mitchell and Watertown Public Libraries both have copies of this book. I also recommended the book A Dream of Freedom: the civil war movement from 1954 to 1958. It looked like it explained the concept of the civil war as well as some of the events that happened during it. This book is located at the, surprise the Bison Public Library as well as the Rapid City Library.
Well I did and advanced search for graphic novels and classic novels together with the limiter of books only and came up with The Hobbit by Chuck Dixon, David Wenzel, Sean Deming and J.R.R. Tolkien.
Ok you've got me on this one. I will have to look at some other blogs to see if I can find how they did it. Every way I tried to search brought up nothing.
Ok gave it another shot after finding a tip to also add Musical to the keywords with My Fair Lady as the Title, English language and musical scores as the limiter. I think I found what the director would be looking for. The accession number would be OCLC 750364538. Would probably help if I understood anything about searching for musical scores a little more. Thanks to the other blogger for the tip.
Hi, Hopeful! Thanks for giving WorldCat a try. It is a very "librariany" resource that is very powerful, but complex. We asked you to find books about Martin Luther, the Reformation leader, not Martin Luther King, the Civil Rights leader. If you add 1 thing to the search you did, you will get good results: in the dropdown menu on the left, change the "and" to "NOT" and type "King" in the box to the right of it. That way, you will get books for kids about Martin Luther. Your classics choice is a good one. Musical scores are tricky, tricky, tricky, as you found out. You found a record for soprano solos of show tunes from a variety of shows, including My Fair Lady. You did a good job & were on the right track, but made this search a little more complicated than it needed to be. Here's an easier way: My Fair Lady as Title Phrase, click limiter Musical Scores. You will get several choices, many of which are the vocal scores that could help your patron. The neat thing about WorlCat is that there are usually many ways to get good results. We'll work more on this at Institute. Thanks for sticking with this!
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