Lesson 7: World Cat and More

1.  For Martin Luther, I went into the advanced search and put in "Martin Luther" and "Protestant Reformation" and "not King", because without those limiters, there will probably be a lot of resources for Martin Luther King.  (At least I've had that happen to me before in searching other databases!)  Then I limited it to biography, books, English and juvenile.  This resulted in 12 book titles, all about Martin Luther.  I would have recommended Martin Luther: A Man Who Changed the World by Paul Maier.  It has a more recent copyright date, it only has 26 pages, so that it could be shared during one or two Sunday School class periods.  Or if a student took it home to borrow, it wouldn't take long to finish it and pass it on to the next student. It has beautiful pictures.  Also, I have used it with my Sunday School class of 5th and 6th graders and happen to know that it works.  The nearest owning library is actually our church library or my own library (where I would probably get it from and share it with a patron!).  However, for the purposes of this lesson, the closest library that has the book is the Brookings Public Library.

2.  I typed in "graphic novels" in advanced search subject phrase and "classics" as a keyword. I chose the limiters "English, books, juvenile, fiction and publication dates great than 2005", which gave me 137 results.  There were a variety of publishers, so I looked at Papercutz, Barrons, Sterling and Magic Wagon.  I went back and plugged in each as the publisher along with the other limiters and keywords.  Barrons had the most results.  Unfortunately, there was no recommended reading level and I also like to see inside a book before buying anything.  So I went to Amazon and typed in one book from each publisher.  The Magic Wagon, Papercutz and Barrons books were geared to grade 3 and up. Sterling books were geared to age 10 and up and recommended more for middle school.  I could look inside some of the books.  I thought that the Barrons graphic version of "The Three Musketeers"  would probably be an interesting one to start with first.  Watertown Public Library is the only one in state that has this book currently.  

3. I used advanced search and typed in the keywords "My Fair Lady", Loewe, Frederick (one of the authors) and vocal score and then limited it by musical scores. This returned a list of at least three copies of "My Fair Lady"'s vocal score with piano but I think that despite the fact that they had different OCLC numbers, they were the exact same thing.  They had the same publication dates and number of pages.  The one I listed here actually listed the overture as part of the score included while the others did not.  But I still think they are all the same item.   OCLC: 26429906  one vocal score.

I did look at all the other bloggers, but no one is working on this lesson right now.  I enjoyed reading their input on everything so far, though!