1. I used the Advanced Search and entered Martin Luther as a "Named Person" and limited the type to "Books" and the Subtype Limits as "Juvenile" audience and "not fiction" content. The results showed 861 books, many of which were about Martin Luther King Jr., so I decided to make some additional limits. I used the Subject Heading and limited it to "Luther, Martin" and used the Languae Heading to limit it to "English." Now, I have it narrowed down to 125 results. I normally would look at some reviews to make a recommendation to the patron. However, I don't have a lot of time for that right now, so I am going to recommend a newer book (from 2006) called Martin Luther: Father of the Reformation by Barbara A. Somervill.
2. I started by using the Advanced Search and entering "classics" as a keyword and "illustrated" as a keyword. I limited the type to "books" and the subtype to a "juvenile" audience. I checked out The Invisible Man, which was one of my top results. I saw it was from a series called "Classics Illustrated" So, I went back to the search screen and entered that as a Series Title and entered "graphic novel" as a keyword. I had 51 results, which I narrowed to 46 by limiting the Subject Heading to "graphic novel." A couple of series looked pretty promising. There was an older series (1990s) by Acclaim Books called "Classics Illustrated" and a newer series (2000+) by Papercutz which was also called "Classics Illustrated." I would probably lean toward adding the newer series because it looks a little hipper and current. Students tend to veer toward current looking materials. However, I like the titles in the Acclaim series better. So, I could actually choose a title by each publisher and order it through interlibrary loan in order to research the pros and cons before I actually choose a series. I'm going to choose Frankenstien from the series by Papercutz (because it will probably have some cool and creepy illustrations). I'm also going to choose Uncle Tom's Cabin by Acclaim Books because I think it's a very moving story and I'm interested in seeing an illustrated version of this classsic.
3. Using the Advanced Search, I entered My Fair Lady as a Title Phrase and limited the Type to "Musical Scores." I had 441 results, so I limited it to English to narrow the results to 257, then limited it to "musical revues and comedies" to further narrow to 102. I chose the second result, which was the first one with My Fair Lady as the title. The first result was a complilation of many scores by Lerner and Loewe. The Accession number of the item I chose was OCLC #26429906.
I checked out some other blogs. It looks we have different ways to go about finding our answers. Most of us seemed to come up with a different accession number for My Fair Lady, so I'm not really sure if I did it right or not.
Great work, clueless! The cool thing with WorldCat is that there are many ways to get good results. For #1, you could have used "NOT" and "King" to eliminate the Martin Luther King results, but your way did that, too. You have shown how you can combine search terms and fields to get complex results! Thanks for the comments.
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