Book Title Searches
Research skills include knowing the best way of finding the location of the books
and other materials you need for your studies.
You now know how to identify citations to books,
and chapters in books and now you need to know how to find their locations and
call numbers using The Catalogue.
There are three ways of searching for known books in The
Catalogue:
Search for the
Title if you know the exact book title. It's usually the quickest option.
Search for the
Author
if you know an author's surname and first initial, but you are unsure
of the title.
Use Keywords when you know only a few words from the title and/or an author's (or editor's)
surname.
Title
Title searches are not case sensitive so it doesn't matter
if you use capital letters or not.
Punctuation is ignored, including foreign
language accents.
You can type in all of the title of a book
e.g. principles of anatomy and physiology
You can truncate the title
e.g. principles of anatomy and physiol
Never use a, an,
or the if it's the first word of the title!
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Start at the Library Home.
Click on the Catalogue tab
Click on the triangle at the end of the box containing Keyword (search engine style)
Click on Title (omit beginning 'The', 'A' etc)
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Right click on the link to the Library Home
Then choose Open in New Window
Library Home


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Type the book title
principles of anatomy and physiology
into the Search for box.
Click on the Search button.
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The Catalogue searches for your title and returns the results.
Notice that The Catalogue finds nine books with
this title. These are eight editions of the same book plus another book with a similar title.
You can sort these books in various ways.
Left click in the Sort by box.
Click on a sort option.

To look at the details of any of these books you can
click on the highlighted title/author
in the Full Title section.
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In the 'live' catalogue
Click on the Full title (or the number in
brackets to the left) to
look at the catalogue record for the 2009 edition of this book.
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The graphic displays details for 3 of the 5 copies of this book and its supplement.
You would normally now write down the Location (e.g.
Barr Smith Main Collection) as well as the Call Number (e.g.612 T12p.12).
Location
The section in the Library where
the book is located.
Call Number
Where (exactly) on the shelves
to find the book.
Status
Whether the book is On
Loan, On Order, In Process, or Just Returned ... (a
particular recent date) etc.
Available
- the book is in the Library, not out on loan.
In Process means
the item is in the Library but not yet ready to go on the shelves.
On loan - Due on gives
the date the item is due back from loan.
On Order - the library has ordered the item but it hasn't arrived yet.
Overdue - Due on gives
the date the item was due back from loan
Renewed - Due on
gives the new date the item is due back from loan
Just returned -
the item was returned from loan recently, but may not be back on the shelves
yet.
Due Time Applies
to Reserve items only.
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Return to the live catalogue session.
Click on next to look
at The Catalogue record for the 11th edition of this book.
If the catalogue session has closed (after 10 minutes of inactivity) you'll need to repeat the previous steps.
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To start another Catalogue search
scroll up to the top of the Catalogue screen and click on the yellow New
Search button,
or down to the bottom of the Catalogue
screen and click on the New Search link.
Catalogue Time Out
If you don't use an open catalogue
session for 10 minutes the computer will return you to the Library Home.
Here is a movie of how to use the catalogue to search for a book by its title.
You should now know
How to search for a book (or other item) by its title
Find the collection, call number, and status from The Catalogue
Distinguish between different editions of the same title
Logon to MyUni to answer Question 2.
Click on the right pointing arrow in the top right of the screen.
Move to Page 2.

Click on the link for Question 2.

Go to MyUni
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Locations
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