And here I thought coots were the guys who sat in the park and fed the
birds.
I also get mostly relevant sites in Google. The same search (keyword)
in Worldcat yields no results.
--
Andrew Ashton
Systems Librarian
Scribner Library, Skidmore College
(518)580-5505
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[mailto:NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Martin,Giles
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If you put the words "Coots food" into Google, then most of the results
that you get on the first page do seem to be about what coots eat.
Giles Martin
Assistant Editor, Dewey Decimal Classification OCLC marting_at_oclc.org
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[mailto:NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Edward Corrado
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----- "Martha Yee" <myee_at_UCLA.EDU> wrote:
> I know this is asking for trouble, but I can't resist sharing my
> latest Google adventure with you all. My husband and I were feeding
> stale bread to some coots on Echo Park Lake (in a neighborhood park
> near our house), when I was suddenly conscience-stricken at the
> realization that I didn't actually know if stale bread was good for
> coots. When I got home, I typed in to Google's famous search box
> "what do coots eat?" The reply that came back was a web site entitled
> "What do eagles eat?" In the list of eagle edibles was coots.
>
> In LCSH, the heading Coots--Food would give you perfect recall and
> precision for monographs wholly about what coots eat, if there were
> any.
However, if you search for "what do coots eat?", this wouldn't come up
either with LCSH. You would need to know the pseudo-thesaurus that is
LCSH to know this. Many librarians might know this, but most of the
people that I see at the reference desk wouldn't. I guess the point is,
that neither approach is perfect.
Edward
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