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Basic Catalog Searching

Basic Catalog Searching. Rich Edwards Innovative Coordinator Washington State Library. Catalog Cards/Bibliographic Records. Catalog Cards/Bibliographic Records. Author. Catalog Cards/Bibliographic Records. Author Title. Catalog Cards/Bibliographic Records. Author Title Subjects.

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Basic Catalog Searching

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  1. Basic Catalog Searching Rich Edwards Innovative Coordinator Washington State Library

  2. Catalog Cards/Bibliographic Records

  3. Catalog Cards/Bibliographic Records • Author

  4. Catalog Cards/Bibliographic Records • Author • Title

  5. Catalog Cards/Bibliographic Records • Author • Title • Subjects

  6. Catalog Cards/Bibliographic Records • Author • Title • Subjects • Location/Call Number

  7. Catalog Cards/Bibliographic Records • Author • Title • Subjects • Location/Call Number • Description

  8. Card Catalog Duplicate cards Different drawers Author Title Subject Shelf List Online Catalog One Record Different Indexes Author Title Subject Call Number Keyword Filing in the Catalog

  9. Innovative Interfaces, Inc. System • Computer database • Computer at The Evergreen State College • Several “views” of the same database. • Interactive, real-time • Many modules: Circulation, Catalog, etc. • Innovative Coordinator

  10. Online Web Catalog

  11. Telnet Public Catalog

  12. Telnet Staff Catalog

  13. Millennium Circulation - Staff Search

  14. Staff Command Line Search

  15. Author Search - Web

  16. Author Search • Last name first • First initial enough • Punctuation not necessary (replaced with space)

  17. Author Index Browse - Web

  18. Author Index Browse -Telnet

  19. Author Index Browse -Millennium

  20. Author Index Browse -Millennium

  21. Author Index Browse -Web • Alphabetical order • Titles shown • Location Codes (Bibliographic) • Date of publication

  22. Bibliographic Record - Web(Catalog Card)

  23. Bibliographic Record - Web(Catalog Card) • Item Record current information • Location • Status

  24. Bibliographic Record - Web(Catalog Card) • Links to do searches

  25. Bibliographic Record - Telnet Public (Catalog Card)

  26. Bibliographic Record - Telnet Public (Catalog Card) • Item Record Current Information • Location • Status

  27. Bibliographic Record - Telnet Staff (Catalog Card)

  28. Item Record - Telnet Staff • Staff Coded • Current Online Information: Location, Status, MORE!

  29. Bibliographic Record - Millennium (Catalog Card)

  30. Bibliographic Record - Millennium (Catalog Card) • Item Record Current Information • Location • Status

  31. Bibliographic Record - Millennium (Catalog Card)

  32. Bibliographic Record - Millennium (Catalog Card - View)

  33. Cross References • Web Catalog • Telnet • One entry for all versions of one person’s name (Authority File) • System provides guide for searchers • Linked to automatically performed search

  34. Title Search

  35. Title Search • Alphabetical Title Search (looks for your search terms at the beginning of a title, in the order you've entered them) • You may ignore initial articles (a, an, the) • Truncation assumed

  36. Title Index Browse - Web

  37. Bibliographic Record - Web(Catalog Card)

  38. Subject Search

  39. Subject Search • Alphabetical Subject Search • Library of Congress Subject Headings (Authority File) • Truncation assumed

  40. Subject Index Browse - Web

  41. Bibliographic Record - Web(Catalog Card)

  42. See Also References • Controlled Vocabulary - Authority File • (Library of Congress Subject Headings)

  43. See Also References • System provides guides for searchers • Linked to automatically performed search

  44. Keyword Search

  45. Keyword Searches • Searches for Words in multiple parts of the record • Searches for Words regardless of where they appear in the line • Multiple words are assumed to ALL be required for retrieval (Boolean “and”)

  46. Keyword Searches

  47. Keyword Searches • To broaden your search use "or" as a connector. Search will return records that contain any of the words used

  48. Keyword Searches - Browse Display

  49. Keyword Searches • To exclude a term, use "not"

  50. Keyword Searches - Browse Display

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