at the by: bar click on the arrowhead and scroll down to
select Title(omit
beginning 'The', 'A' etc)
Click on (Search)
The next screen gives the brief details (author,
title, location) for the titles that match your search in the top bar;
the second bar, in yellow, gives details of where to find the
item.
For more information about the book click on the Title: to get the Record view:
where you find more information about the book.
Notice that one of the titles is followed by the phrase [electronic
resource] in square brackets. At the Record view: the first line is headed Link to e-Resource:. Click on the words to the right of this heading; you
will be asked to enter your student number and PIN then provided with a
link to suppliers of the full text in
electronic format.
Record view: lists the Author:
and
Title:
followed by details such as the size, illustrations, publisher, and the
Subject
Heading(s):
Scroll down below the divider line to see how many copies the Library
has: and the Location: (which library), the Call Number:
(whereabouts the book is in the library) and Status: (the date due
where a book is on loan).
Location:
The Barr Smith Main Collection is on Levels 1 and 2.
The Reserve Collection is on Level 3, North.
The Oversize
Collection is on Level 3, North
Call Number:
The Library
uses the Dewey Decimal Classification system to indicate the subject
content of the book and where the book is located within the collection.
Status:
Available indicates that the book should be in the Library.
The phrase Due on: followed by a date indicates that the book is out of
the Library.
When a
book
that you want is on loan, consider using the Request: function. The link is found in the
centre box
of the yellow
rectangles across the top of the screen.
Enter your Username: and Password:
then follow the instructions to Recall a
book that is out on loan. When you submit your Request, an email will be sent to the existing borrower
requiring
them to return the book to the Library.
When the book is
returned, it will be kept for you and you be notified that it is
available.
Follow the links from the Subject Heading(s): in the Catalogue
record if you are interested in finding other books on the
same subject,
eg. from the
Catalogue record for Understanding
sustainable architecture
click on Sustainable architecture or Architecture Environmental Aspects
You will get a list of 50 subject headings, listed alphabetically,
starting wth the one you selected, eg.
Sustainable architecture Sustainable
architecture Australia
Sustainable architecture South Australia
Sustainable buildings Design and construction
Click on a
Subject Heading to bring up a list of the books which share that
subject heading; eg. for
Sustainable buildings--Design and construction
Above the list of results, on the
left-hand side, at Sort by:
pull down on the arrow-head and select Date (latest first)
to show the most recent titles first
REMEMBER,
the Library Catalogue does not list
individual
articles from journals, so to find out if the Library has a copy of the
journal article in your reference, you need to search under the title
of the
journal.
(1) Select
Basic search,
and type the full title of the journal in the
Search
for: bar, changing the default at Search
by: to Journal or
Newspaper
Title
eg.
click on the Full title to get the Record
view, a full description of that item,
including
the Location:, Call
Number:,
Notes: such as
Recent issues shelved in Current journals:,
the
range of volumes that the
Library
Has: a list of the
Recent Issues: received and
Status:
(whether or not the item is on loan) for each copy.
Compare the information
provided at
Library Has: and
Recent Issues: with your reference to see that the
Library
indeed has the issue that you need.
Where the Library has paid a subscription for access to the electronic
version of a journal, click Link
to e-Resource: to go to the full text
site.
Search by:
Journal or Newspaper Title when you are
trying
to find a journal article. In SALAUD this is particularly useful for
journals with a short or single word title which could be the
name of a book , eg.
if you are uncertain of the exact journal title,
or for those journal titles which are difficult to find on the
Catalogue,
for example where the journal title includes the name of a
society,
institution, association etc.
Type words from the name of the organisation,
together with the title in the Search
for: bar, leaving the default operator at
all of these and selecting from Search
by: Author and Title eg.
Search
for: journal
american institute architects [leave
the default at]
all of these Search
by: Author and Title)
to find the record for the Journal of the
American Institute of Architects
Results
The Search
Results: report shows your search strategy and the
number of titles which match that search strategy, followed by a
numbered
list of the titles arranged in order of a Relevance algorithm.
If you
want
to see the most recent titles first, go to Sort
by at the top or bottom of the titles list, and pull
down
to Date (latest first).
To see the Location: Call Number: and
Status: (whether or not the item is on loan), or Subject Heading(s): for
each
copy, click on the title for the Record
view, a full description of that item.
Use the previous
and next icons
to
move backwards or forwards through the list of titles.
Output
Click in the check box from the column to the
left of a title to mark that record to be saved in a set to
Print/Save or
E-mail
or Save To Bookbag
later.
Important NOTE - if your
search results
in more than 50 titles and you want to mark titles from the second or
subsequent
screens, click on Retain
Selected before going on to the next
screen of results.
Use Save
Options (at the bottom of the display) to
Print/Save or
E-mail
records to your account or to
Save To Bookbag
(1) In
Basic
Search from
Search by:
select Keywords (using and, or, not).
This option finds groups of characters or search
terms from anywhere in the Record
view including words from the title, author's
name(s),
publisher, place of publication, subject headings, notes, series title,
and groups of numbers from the ISBN and the call number.
In the Search for:
bar type words to describe your topic, then click on Search,
eg.
Using the computer commands (and, or,
not)
will enable you to make your search more specific and effective.
Where you have more than one concept, type
the
AND operator between your search words so the
Catalogue will find records which include each search word, eg.
urban
AND ecology finds
415 records which include both of these words somewhere in a record.
Where you want both singular and plural forms of a word, truncate the
word
and add an asterisk *
to the stem, eg.
Where you know of alternative words for a
concept,
enclose the string of the words within round brackets ( ) and type the OR
operator between each word, eg.
Use phrase searching where your concept is more efficiently
described rather than words combined with the
AND operator. Put the phrase in
inverted
commas, eg.
This option can be used to search for books by
Call
Number. Treat the Call Number as a phrase, with the command AND
between the parts of the number eg.
Determine the appropriate
headings
for your search by
- observation of Subject Headings in the Record
view from the results of previous
searches,
or
- from the Library of Congress Subject
Headings
which the Library uses to assign subject descriptions to each
book.
A set of these five large red volumes is kept at the Research Help
Desk,
Level 3, South.
See Also:
in the left-hand column of the Subject
Browse display, provides a list of other
Subject
Headings which exist for aspects of the topic, eg.
References
for: Urban policy
Reference
info
Narrow Term:
Community development, Urban
Narrow Term:
Urban impact analysis
Narrow Term:
Urban transportation
Narrow
Term:
Urban transportation policy
See
Also:
City planning
See
Also:
Education, Urban
See
Also:
Land use, Urban
See
Also:
Revenue sharing
See
Also:
Urban beautification
See
Also:
Urban renewal
See
Also:
Urbanization
Sub-headings can be added to search
for
a
specific aspect of a Subject, eg.
When the book is in Store, at Waite or Roseworthy libraries or On Loan
click on [Requests]
Save Options
Save individual records or a set of records from your Catalogue search.
Having the file in electronic format is a convenient way to store
information
that can be copied and pasted into the list of references for your
essay.
At the display of
Search Results: select the individual
records
of interest by clicking in the box in the left hand column. Go
to
Print/Save Options (at the bottom of the display)
and
select
Print/Save or enter your email address
and
E-mail the selected records to your account,
or
Save To Bookbag.
Instead of selecting individual titles you may
choose All on page.
Links to records sharing the same author, series, or subject heading
At the Record
view click on a Subject heading, Author's name or Series
title
to get a list of 50 headings, starting with the heading you
selected.
Click on the number to the left of a Subject heading, Author's name or
Series title, to display a list of up to 50 titles starting with that
Subject
heading, Author's name or Series title.
Display list of results by date
The default order of results is
Relevance in the keyword searches, and
alphabetically
by Title
for
other searches. To see the most recent publications first,
at
Search Results: go to Sort
by: (above the list of titles for your
search)
and pull down to select Date (latest
first).
The system will re-sort the titles and present them in reverse-date
order,
the most recent publications first. This can be useful if you are
looking
for the latest material on a topic, or the most recent edition of a
book.
You can also Sort
by:
Author
in alphabetical order.
Search History
This function provides a list of the searches done in your session,
with
links back to the search results. Under Searched
for:
click on the appropriate search strategy to bring back the results of
that
search.
Other Catalogues
This feature allows you to search the catalogues of the three
University
libraries in Adelaide at the same time.
From the options at the top of the Catalogue screen, at the right hand
end, select
[Other
Catalogues:] From the box in the middle of the
screen, highlight the three institution's names, Adelaide,
Flinders,
UniSA, to do a search across the three libraries' catalogues.
The phrase "Now searching:
Adelaide , Flinders ,
UniSA" appears in the top right of the screen.
Note that there are only three search
options available,
Title (all items), Journal Title, and
Keyword (using and, or, not) .
Use the History
facility when you want to apply an earlier search
across all the libraries' catalogues.
The Search
Status shows the number of items at each library. Click on
Show
to bring up the complete list of titles.
The column on the right,
headed Database,
shows which library has that item.
- remember that you can
borrow from the other two university libraries on your University of
Adelaide student card.
- where the item is in
electronic format you should go to a campus library of that University
and ask for
directions to the "Community Computers" where you can use the
electronic resources of that university library.
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