WorldCat

The advanced search helps to narrow down the results. When used correctly, you will probably have only the book you are searching in the results. The search boxes offer many ways to search, for example you can select keyword, access method, accession number, ISBN, language, material type, publisher, subject, title, and many others. I chose Battlefield of the Mind in the title phrase box and the limiter "books". There are 629 libraries worldwide that own the title. The top library was Alexander Mitchell  Library in South Dakota.
Further searching revealed that the call number for the book is 248.4. The author, Joyce Meyer, has additional books available through WorldCat. Those books are Beauty for Ashes, Joyce Meyer: A life of redemption and destiny, one book in chinese, two journals, and one internet source. The subject this book falls under is Christian Life and in selecting this subject 168,444 results were found. One can also search the publisher for additional sources. When you have found the book you are searching for, you can search the South Dakota State Library, borrow from another library, and cite the item. For patrons writing a research paper, the citing ability would be very beneficial. It provides many different citing styles to select from. At the library the ability to find the call number is very beneficial for the cataloguer. This resource has alot of potiential uses for both the library staff and patrons. When used to its full potential many patrons will be using this resource for locating books, citing sources, and finding adddition resources for a subject of interest.

I have never used the other databases available through WorldCat. I found it to be another great resource for libraries. I selected one result that was an article and one that was a picture. Regarding the article, on the main page of the link is the abstract of the article and a link on the page that downloads the entire article. The main page for a picture provided additional links which all lead to the details for the picture. The page also provided the description, type, source, rights, and more for the picture. Above is an example of the of a picture I found in my result list.