Transcript Revision of Joao Barretto’s Workshop A Searches (PDF file) Revised in Powerpoint for the iPac by Manly Horowitz April 1, 2004

Revision of Joao Barretto’s
Workshop A Searches (PDF file)
Revised in Powerpoint for
the iPac by Manly Horowitz
April 1, 2004
How to Search the Library
Catalog
Find books and other library
materials
At the Library Home Page, Click on
“Find BOOKS: Library Catalog”
You will see an initial Catalog
screen that shows the various
searches you can do
Start an Exact Title Search: Type in
“The Joy Luck Club” and click “GO”
Click on “The Joy Luck Club” at the
top of the list of titles to see 7 items
Click on the second item –”The Joy
Luck Club” for it’s full record
Note important information in this
book’s record – for more record,
pull down the bar to the right
Also check the important
information in this part of the record
Let’s go back to the top part of the
record
Note the Subjects of this book Click the second one for all the
titles the library has on this subject
There are 5 titles on this subject Click on “Mothers and daughters United States - Fiction” to see them
You can now see all 5 titles
To start a new search, there are
two main ways - One way is to click
on “Library Catalog”
Clicking on Library Catalog takes
you back to the initial search page
The other way to start a new
search is to use the options at the
top of your current screen
First click on the arrow to show
your search options – select one
Let’s select “Exact Title” and search
again for “The Joy Luck Club”
This time click on the second title
for the motion picture soundtrack
Check the full record to see this
item’s location – the Media Center
For another new search let’s click
on “Library Catalog” and return to
the beginning search screen
Let’s do next a Title Keywords
search – some main words you
remember in a title
Type in bell and tolls, two words
you recall from a title you want
Click on the first item of the list of
title results
Note the different locations and call
numbers for this book
Next, an Author search – We want
to know what we have by Amy Tan
- Type in Tan Amy (last name first)
We have 13 titles by Amy Tan –
Click on Tan, Amy to view them
Click on the second title, “The
Kitchen God’s Wife”
View the full record – 3 copies of
the book are available
Let’s try an Exact Subject search for the subject, “Latin America”
A list of exact subjects appears,
with “Latin America” at the top
Clicking on “Latin America” brings
up 22 titles – Note the date of #1
Let’s sort titles by publication date
so the most recent come up first –
Click on the arrow for sort options
Select “Publication Date” and click
“Go”
Now the first item’s publication date
is 1999, not 1974 - Let’s select the
second item, published in 1998
In this record we can see a
“Contents” area - For the rest of the
record, pull down the bar
Now location information appears
as well
Try another Exact Subject search –
for items on (not by) Toni Morrison
Click on a subheading, “Criticism
and Interpretation” (19 titles)
Click on the first of the 19, “Critical
Essays on Toni Morrison”
Check this book’s full record
Let’s do another Exact Subject
search – Type “Native Americans”
Zero results because our catalog
doesn’t use this term - The “See”
below tells us the term that is used
The term that is used gives 110
titles on our topic – Select that
The first items of the 110
Let’s try an Exact Subject search
on the subject, “Aids”
“AIDS (Disease)” is the main term Note the “See Also” lines below it
“See Also” refers to a closely
related topic – Click on the first
closely related topic
2 titles for the closely related topic,
“AIDS (Disease) in children”
Let’s now do a “Subject Keyword”
search. Type in, “gulf” and “war”
From the list of subjects having gulf
and war, click the one circled
There are 2 titles for this subject –
Select the first
View the full record
Next, a “Keywords in Plays, Songs,
Essays, Short Stories” search
We’re looking for the short story,
“Red Pony” – Type that in
5 titles come up. These titles are
collections of works - of songs,
short stories, etc., – Let’s select #5
The record here has a “Contents”
area – “red pony” is highlighted
The contents area tells us this
collection includes the short story,
“Red Pony” by John Steinbeck
Let’s do another “Keywords in
Plays, Songs, ...” search. We want
now Chekhov’s play, “The Seagull”
Select the first item, “Plays” by
Anton Chekhov
“Contents” shows that this
collection contains “The Seagull”
One more “Keywords in Plays, etc.,
search – We recall from a song title
only 3 words – “turn” “I’m” “radio”
The cassette, “For the Roses”,
comes up
Looking through “Contents”, we
see that “For the Roses” has the
song we want
To get the cassette, we need to go
to the Media Center
Let’s now search for “Reserve
Materials by Instructor”
Let’s say your instructor has a book
on reserve you need – Type in her
name, last name first, and click Go
Click on Redick, Mary at the top of
the list of instructors for 11 items
Pull the bar down to find the book
you want, “Cultural Anthropology”
Click on “Cultural Anthropology”
Note important information like
circulation periods, availability, and
the courses using this book
You can also search for reserve
materials by course
Type in the course name
(abbreviated) and number
Click on Math 840 at the top of the
course list
Select the first item
Pull the bar down for “Copy/Holding
Information”
Note circulation periods and other
needed information
Let’s say we want a circulating
book, but we see it’s checked out
when we look it up in the catalog
We can get the book by placing
a hold on it. The following
screen shows you how
Let’s say we want, specifically, Amy
Tan’s “The hundred secret senses”,
but it’s checked out
If you click the “Place a Hold”
button, you can have the book held
for you once it’s returned
After clicking “Place a Hold”, you
are asked for your barcode and
your phone number’s last 4 digits
Type in your information and click
Login
You’ll be notified by mail
when the book is available
for pickup
..
Now suppose we want a book that
is circulating but is at another
campus library
We can request this book be sent to our
campus library, again by clicking on the
“Place a Hold” button
For this Downtown book to be sent
to Rosenberg, click on “Place a
Hold”
Fill in the information required and
click Login
You should allow a maximum of 6
days for the book to arrive. A
request made Monday through
Wednesday should arrive in less
time.
There is one more “Place a
Hold” option
A circulating book that is “On the Shelf” can
be held for you if you are searching from a
computer outside of a City College
library. If you search in a City College
library and the book is there, you must
retrieve the book yourself. Perform the
same “Place a Hold” procedure outside a
City College library and have an “On the
Shelf” circulating book held for you.