{"id":995,"date":"2006-09-13T19:27:23","date_gmt":"2006-09-13T19:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/classmates-as-awesome-resource-finders\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T22:04:59","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T03:04:59","slug":"classmates-as-awesome-resource-finders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/classmates-as-awesome-resource-finders\/","title":{"rendered":"Classmates as Awesome Resource Finders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have the best classmates this semester!  Each time I log in to &quot;class&quot;, I am presented with a wealth of resources that I spend about an hour a day just filing away.  The <span>latest<\/span> one was new to me, but worth taking an extra second to pass along.  <span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcatlibraries.org\/default.jsp\"><span>WorldCat<\/span><\/a><\/span> is a massive <span><span>online<\/span> catalog<\/span><span> <\/span> of library resources, including &quot;books, music, videos, articles and more.&quot;  A student in our <span><span>online<\/span> class <\/span>shared a resource link with our class by sending along<a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcatlibraries.org\/search?q=0-15-506898-9+&amp;qt=results_page\"> the <span>WorldCat<\/span> link<\/a>.  Students could then search for the resource by zip code and find the nearest local library that has the resource <span>available<\/span> for checkout. How is that for making the distance experience a little more &quot;local&quot;?  I also noticed that the site offers several <span>WorldCat<\/span> search <span>toolbar<\/span> options and the ability to quickly create a <span>WorldCat<\/span> link for an item by typing in http:\/\/worldcat.org\/isbn\/<font color=\"#009900\">[insert ISBN].<\/font>  Three cheers for DS and this resource find!<\/p>\n<p>p.s. Should you want to buy the resource, <span>WorldCat<\/span> also shows an Amazon link off to the side of the page. Neat little revenue model for the site, as well.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <!-- technorati tags begin --><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 10px; text-align: right\">technorati tags:<a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/library\">library<\/a>, <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/WorldCat\">WorldCat<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have the best classmates this semester! Each time I log in to &quot;class&quot;, I am presented with a wealth of resources that I spend about an hour a day just filing away. The latest one was new to me, but worth taking an extra second to pass along. WorldCat is a massive online catalog&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[194,242],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-reference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3133,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions\/3133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}