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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 Rich Edwards Innovative Coordinator Washington State Library
Catalog Cards/Bibliographic Records • Author
Catalog Cards/Bibliographic Records • Author • Title
Catalog Cards/Bibliographic Records • Author • Title • Subjects
Catalog Cards/Bibliographic Records • Author • Title • Subjects • Location/Call Number
Catalog Cards/Bibliographic Records • Author • Title • Subjects • Location/Call Number • Description
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
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
Author Search • Last name first • First initial enough • Punctuation not necessary (replaced with space)
Author Index Browse -Web • Alphabetical order • Titles shown • Location Codes (Bibliographic) • Date of publication
Bibliographic Record - Web(Catalog Card) • Item Record current information • Location • Status
Bibliographic Record - Web(Catalog Card) • Links to do searches
Bibliographic Record - Telnet Public (Catalog Card) • Item Record Current Information • Location • Status
Item Record - Telnet Staff • Staff Coded • Current Online Information: Location, Status, MORE!
Bibliographic Record - Millennium (Catalog Card) • Item Record Current Information • Location • Status
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
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
Subject Search • Alphabetical Subject Search • Library of Congress Subject Headings (Authority File) • Truncation assumed
See Also References • Controlled Vocabulary - Authority File • (Library of Congress Subject Headings)
See Also References • System provides guides for searchers • Linked to automatically performed search
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”)
Keyword Searches • To broaden your search use "or" as a connector. Search will return records that contain any of the words used
Keyword Searches • To exclude a term, use "not"