Using the NEW MIRLYN

1. Using the NEW MIRLYN Documents Center University of Michigan October 2004

2. MIRLYNhttp://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/ • Search Ann Arbor • Books, Periodicals, and Electronic Materials in Library System, Bentley and Clements • Find Articles • Periodical Indexes • Find Other Library Catalogs • Catalogs of Independent Campus and Big 10 Libraries, EMU, Ann Arbor District, Business Administration, Law

3. MIRLYN Catalogshttp://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/

4. MIRLYN Signonhttp://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu • GUEST Signon is automatic. • VALIDATED Signon at first chance for: Indexes, recalls, renewals, remote retrieval Links to campus-licensed web products, saving searches

5. MIRLYN – Two Major Searcheshttp://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/ BASIC – browse or keyword; ADVANCED – keyword in multiple fields (e.g. author, title)

6. MIRLYN – Basic Searchhttp://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/ Browse or keyword: author, title, subject, entire record, journal, call number

7. MIRLYN – Basic Search http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/ Browse Title

8. MIRLYN – Basic Search http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/ Click on Title for Search Result

9. MIRLYN – Basic Search http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/ Search results list location and call number. Click on Location for circulation and retrieval information.

10. MIRLYN – Basic Search http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/ If book is in Buhr Storage or North Campus, you can request delivery to the Graduate Library

11. Retrieving Bookshttp://mirlyn.web.lib.umich.edu For the most part, you want to come to the library to retrieve the book in person Graduate Library Stacks Directory http://www.lib.umich.edu/navigator/gradstax.html

12. Circulation Periodhttp://www.lib.umich.edu/circ/ Length of circulation varies with library Undergraduate = three weeks for everyone Graduate = eight weeks if graduate student semester if faculty or T.A. three weeks if undergraduate Books can be recalled after three weeks regardless of initial circulation period

13. MIRLYN Subject Searchinghttp://mirlyn.web.lib.umich.edu Subjects Use Library of Congress Subject Headings (Controlled vocabulary regardless of title)

14. MIRLYN Subject Searchinghttp://mirlyn.web.lib.umich.edu LC Subject Country and Form Subdivisions Country Subject Subdivisions United States--Foreign Relations China--Foreign Relations Elections--Yugoslavia Elections--United States Form Subdivisions Elections--Bibliography Politicians -Biography Economics--Dictionaries

15. MIRLYN – Basic Search http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/ Typical Library of Congress subject browse search

16. MIRLYN – Basic Search http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/ Results provide a browsable list with all subject or geographic subdivisions

17. MIRLYN – Modifying Search http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/ Default list is alphabetically by title You can sort the list (e.g. by date, format, author) Use MODIFY to limit by language

18. MIRLYN – Modifying Search http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/ Use Modify Search to Only List English-language Titles

19. MIRLYN – Printing http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/ To print, save, or e-mail an INDIVIDUAL record, use your web browser or click on Print/Export/E-Mail button

20. MIRLYN – Printing http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/ To print, save, or e-mail search a list of results, either SELECT ALL (all boxes checked) or CHECK INDIVIDUAL BOXES and add to BASKET

21. MIRLYN – Printing http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/ VIEW THE BASKET

22. MIRLYN – Printing http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/ In the VIEW BASKET mode, click on the Print/Export/Email button

23. MIRLYN – Printing http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/ Choose RECORD format; then PRINT, SAVE, or EMAIL. Printing or saving with web browser doesn’t always work well.

24. MIRLYN – Basket http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/ You can add NEW search results to the Basket To see what’s in the basket, click on the blue BASKET at the top

25. MIRLYN – Basket v. My Shelf http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/ Baskets for all searches can be printed or exported for current session only You can save individual titles in baskets to MY SHELF for subsequent logons, the call numbers will NOT be saved.

26. MIRLYN – Saved Searches http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/ Your searches are automatically saved during your session. Click on PREVIOUS SEARCHES to see them.

27. MIRLYN – Saved Searches http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/ Searches in one session can be combined (and OR or) They can be saved permanently through ADD TO MY SAVED SEARCHES.

28. MIRLYN Keyword Searchinghttp://mirlyn.web.lib.umich.edu Uses Boolean Logic

29. MIRLYN Keyword Searchinghttp://mirlyn.web.lib.umich.edu http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/training/boolean.pdf

30. MIRLYN – Keyword Searching http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/ Keyword searching available in Basic Search for ONE field: all, author, title, subject, or journal name.

31. MIRLYN – Keyword Searching http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/ KEYWORD PROTOCOLS: Phrases in quotation marks: “gender gap” AND, OR, NOT russia not soviet Truncation as * or ? wom*n or wom?n cat? Or cat* Within a few words: ! “security council” !5 resolution

32. MIRLYN – Keyword Searching http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/ “gender gap” is phrase; and = operator; vot* is truncated

33. MIRLYN – Keyword Searching http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/ Blair !5 Bush means blair within 5 words of Bush

34. MIRLYN – Keyword Searching http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/ Keyword (vietnam) and author (ellsberg) would identify titles when you don’t exactly remember; use resulting subject headings in record for similar materials

35. MIRLYN – Format Symbols http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/ Symbols in search results stand for format, e.g. book, journal, microform, CD-ROM, internet; internet items are hot-linked

36. MIRLYN – My Account http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/ Includes books checked out to you, recalls, holds, fines; allow you to renew books