I was looking up a book’s availability online this morning when I realized that perhaps others have different ways of doing that or maybe they re-invent the wheel every time.  Is this true?  I can find out with your help.

The book I was curious about was  Nineshift: Work, life and education in the 21st Century.  I had run across a quote from it in Harold Jarche’s blog.

There are 24 hours in a day. We have no real discretion with roughly 12 of those hours. We need to eat, sleep, and do a few other necessary chores in order to maintain our existence. That hasn’t changed much through the centuries, so far.

That leaves approximately 12 hours a day where we, as individuals, do have some discretion. That includes work time, play time, and family time.

Of those 12 hours, about 75%, or 9 hours, will be spent totally differently a few years from now than they were spent just a few years ago. Not everything will change, but 75% of life is in the process of changing right now.   (Nine Shift – Work, Life and Education in the 21st Century. http://nineshift.com/. Accessed 16 Jan. 2019.)

Some novel ideas here, so I want to find the book.  Here is a screencast that shows how I do it.

I often assume that we all do simple search activity the same way.  For example, I assumed that everyone in my classes would highight a search item and right click for the context menu and search from there.  It saves at least two clicks.  One of my students was watching me use that trick when they said, “Wait, what did you just do there?”  I showed them and they were dumbstruck as if to say, “Why has no one showed this to me?”

So, here it is: how to find a book that you are interested in and track down where you might get it via interlibrary loan.

I am also including an etherpad embedded below so that you can either suggest alternatives, other cool click saving paths, or just some ideas of your own.