WorldCat

1. There is many different searches that are possible. Such as a title, author, publisher, ISBN, subject and more. You can also do a combination such as title in one and author in the next.

2. I put "Twilight" in the for the title phrase. There were 3029 libraries that owned #1. The top library was Alexander Mitchell library in Aberdeen, SD. They listed all the SD libraries that had this book available first then went on to different states. When I clicked on the Alexander Mitchell library link I got this message "404 - File or directory not found.
The resource you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable." I then went back to the search list and clicked on the title and got this Class Descriptors LC: PZ7.M5717515; PS3613.E979; Dewey: [Fic]. When you click on the link for Stephanie Meyers it gave me 494 book records of other books by her. It also showed 70 sounds records, 42 vituals, and 22 internet sources. Some records will also have the MARC display if you are looking for a catalog entry. I use this a lot when I have to do an entry that is not found elsewhere and it also helps me in finding a call number.

OAIster I did the subject phrase search with South Dakota. I got 195 records. I into the top one,Letter, Sinclair Lewis to Marcella Powers, May 15, 1942, and then access and it went to the Minnesota reflections but the letter did not show. I then went to the second one, Log Shanty with flag, woman and seven boys, and that did show in Minnesota reflections. I would think high school students would become frustrated with the results. Unless they were doing some really deep research probably for an AP class, this would be too time consuming.