Transcript Welcome to UTAR Library

How To Use OPAC
What is OPAC?
What is OPAC?
• An acronym for:
Online Public Access Catalogue
• A database used for searching books.
• Also used for checking your library
account, renewal of books and make
reservation if the book is on loan.
You can access OPAC at
http://library.utar.edu.my
Details
of books
Location of
books
Reserve books
What can be done by
OPAC ?
Status of
the books
Renew books
Account
information
How to locate items
using OPAC ?
Browse Search - By Title
Select Title
To see if the material is in the library, you may select “Title” search and
enter the exact title. Do not key in the articles ‘a’, ‘an’ and ‘the’ if they
appear at the beginning of the title.
Browse Search - By Author
Select Author
Or, you may select “Author” search.
Browse Search - By Subject
Select Subject
“Subject” search allows you to search for same materials in
particular subject area in the library, e.g. “management”
Browse Search - By Call Number
Select
Call Number
If you know the “Call Number”, you may use “Call Number”
search.
Viewing Records
After you have identified the title you want, e.g. “Seven habits of highly
effective people”, you will see the “Title Search Screen” as shown
above.
Viewing Records
Click “item”
to view the location(s)
of the book.
Click the title to find out more information.
Viewing Records
Check the “location” of the items.
Viewing Records
If the item is “Available” in your faculty library, you may take
down the “Call Number” and get it from the shelf.
What is Call Number ?
Each book in the library has a unique “call number”. A “call number”
is like an address: it tells us where the book is located in the library.
Viewing Records: Other Information
Number of copies
checked out
Available copies
On hold copies
Number of people
requested
Keyword Search – Using “AND”
If you cannot remember the full title of the book, you may do a
“Keyword” search, for example, “seven habits people”, then select
“title”.
Keyword Search – Using “AND”
OR, If you can remember the name of the “author” and a few words of the
“title”, you may do a “combination” of “author” and “title” search.
Keyword Search – Using “OR”
Use “OR” to broader a search, for example, “html” OR “xhtml”, you will
get books on both “html” OR “xhtml”.
Keyword Search – Using “NOT”
You may use “NOT” to filter out those titles that you don’t want, for
example, “html” NOT “xhtml”, you will get books on “html” but not
“xhtml”.
Keyword Search – Using “Anywhere”
Select
Anywhere search
“Anywhere” search allows you to search for materials found in Title,
Author and Subject fields.
For further information, please contact the
library staff on duty from any of our libraries
during office hours or email to
[email protected]