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You can find books (text, novels, general fiction, reference), media (DVDs, CDs, VHS), educational/informative magazines, scholarly journals, business publications (stock data, performance data).

You cannot find: leisurely magazines (i.e Car & Driver, Gentleman’s Quarterly)

My book search:
Title: SuperFreakonomics : Global cooling, patriotic prostitutes, and why suicide bombers should buy life insurance.
Author: Levitt, Steven D.
Call Number: HB74 .P8 L4797 2011
Location: Baruch Stacks
Status:Regular Loan
Due Date: 09/23/11

The types of material you can find in the catalog are a list of books, references bases on your main search word in the browser. ~

The types of material that can’t be found are random lines of work that is written in the search browser of the site.~

Title: Flowers for Algernon
Author: Keyes, Daniel
Call Number: PS3561 .E769 F56 2004
Location: LaGuradia
Status: Regular loan

In the library catalog, all types of books can be found. Textbooks, works of fiction, nonfiction, autobiographies, etc can be found by searching for key words in title or the author’s name.

Key information about a book:

Title: Forever

Author: Pete Hamill

Call number: PS3558 .A423 F67 2003c

Location: Lehman College

Status: Regular Loan

Materials that can be found in the catalog are textbooks (Give Me Liberty!), reading books (Holes), and plays (Summer and Smoke). But what I could not find are magazines (ESPN the Magazine). When I tried searching for ESPN the Mag, it gave me results that were pieces on ESPN, but not the actual magazine.

Key information about a book

• Title of the book: Lolita
• Author of the book: Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich
• Call number for the book: PS3527 .A15 L618 2009
• Location for the book: Hostos CC
• Status of the book: Searching

You can find information on a book, DVDs, CDs, magazines, journals, newspapers like: titles, call numbers, cover art, edition, publisher, a description, notes, a summary, and subjects it could be found in. But what this doesn’t give you is reviews of the book or websites relating to the keyword you’re searching with.

Title: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Author: Haddon, Mark
Call Number: PR 6058 .A254 C87 2004
Location: Stacks (Brooklyn College)
Status: Regular Loan
Due Date: 09/22/11 11:00 PM

I was able to find my textbooks for class (English and Pre-cal) that were located in Baruch and also in other CUNY’s. I was not able to find a magazine article. I typed in “vouge magazine” as an example and the system seemed confused or unsure.

Key Information About A Book:

Title: Harry Potter & The Half Blood Prince

Author: Rowling, J.K

Call Number: PR6068 .O93 H65 2005

Location: Baruch Library, Stacks: 3rd, 4th, 5th floors

Status: Regular Loan

Due Date: Look on shelf

The types of materials that could be found on the catalog are books. and the things that cannot be found in catalog is online eBooks. And if that’s wrong certainly one cannot find one’s soul mate in the catalog unless it happens to be an author

• Title of the book – Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
• Author of the book – J.K. Rowling
• Call number for the book – PR 6068 .O93 H3 2000
• Location for the book – Baruch library
• Status of the book – Regular LoanDue Date – Look on Shelf

Finished

Write a blog post in class today (7 September 2011) that addresses these two things:

About the catalog

Tell me what types of materials can be found the catalog AND what kinds of materials can’t be found in the catalog. You’ll need to explore the catalog a bit to answer this. Take no more than 5 minutes.

Key information about a book

Search for a work of fiction that you know about (a novel, a collection of short stories, a play, etc.) and then tell me the following info about that book:

• Title of the book
• Author of the book
• Call number for the book
• Location for the book
• Status of the book
• Due date