The University of Adelaide Library

Library tutorial for wine marketing

Section 3. Searching for known books and journals

Part 1 - Searching for a known book in the Library catalogue

The Library catalogue lists books that the Library gets in printed or electronic form. When you know a book's details,
you can search for it by title, author or keywords.

Title search

Link to the Library catalogue through the Catalogue tab at the top of each Library web page. Start at Basic Search.
At by: select Title
If necessary, select Limit e.g. if you want to limit the search by location, e.g. to items in theWaite Library.
At Search for: enter your title.
type the first words of the title: international wine trade
leave out initial articles like The, A, An and foreign language equivalents: international wine trade not the international wine trade
you do not need to enter the whole title, just enough of the first few words to distinguish it from other titles:international wine
use upper or lower case
try alternative spellings or punctuation: behavior could be spelled behaviour; handbook could also be two words hand book; pre-war could be a single word prewar; a title which contains an ampersand '&' instead of 'and' needs to be searched with an &
A list of results is displayed. Click the number of the required item to see full details. See further help on displaying the locations, call numbers and loan status in brief and full records (web page will open in a new window. To return to this tutorial, close the window).

Author search

Use the Author's Name option when you want to browse all books by an author or are looking for a book with a common
title but a distinctive author's name.

select Author - last name first.
At Search for: enter the author's last name and first initial.
You will see the name of the author and the number of titles by the author. Click the number [1] etc against the author's name to see a list of titles.
Click the number [1] etc of the required title to see its full details

Keyword search

If you don't know a common author's initial or the exact title or are not sure of an organisation's exact name
(is it University of Adelaide or Adelaide University?), consider using one of the keyword options.
Example shown is Keywords (search engine style).
Other keyword options are covered in Section 5 (searching for information: finding books)

select Keyword - search engine style
At Search for: enter words from the title and author, in any order
Use quotes to search for phrases, e.g. "market segmentation "
Use the truncation symbol ? to search for plurals etc: enter child? to search for child, children, childhood
To mark a word that is essential, add a + sign in front of it. For example +australia
Add ! directly before a term that must not be present. For example java !indonesia

Search results

Your search result may be a screen with brief details of several items, as in the example below, or a Record view
with full details of a single item.

If the Library holds a print copy and an electronic copy is also available, there will be a catalogue record for the print version and the electronic version (as in the above example)
click on the Full Title of each record to move from this brief display to the full record (example below of the print copy)

Look for:

the location of your book - Waite Reserve-

click on for a guide to Collections and Locations
Note that (as in this example), there may be copies of the book in other locations.
The call number of your book - 382.456632 A547w - see the guide to Library locations and call numbers
the Status - Available means the book has not been borrowed so may be on the shelf
above a search result - option to sort books by latest date
Print/save options below the result

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