The following steps are going to guide you to effectively use the online catalog and locate information resources at your library

1. Locating Information Resources through the Library Online Catalog August 2008 Prepared by: Yesenia Hernández Santiago Librarian Assistant II Revised and Translated by: Prof. Noraida Domínguez Flores Librarian II Information Literacy and Technologies Program University of Puerto Rico at Carolina

4. The following steps are going to guide you to effectively use the online catalog and locate information resources at your library

9. To conduct a Simple search you can click on Home .

10. Click on the arrow to see and select one search option.

13. General Keyword search was conducted using the word Egipt .

14. Search results for Egipt , 56.

15. You can limit your results by selecting a specific Library Collection.

16. As an example, if you want to locate a movie, you can choose the Audiovisual collection ( Colección audiovisual) . Click on the arrow.

17. The search was limited to 10 records for Egipt .

18. This is an information resource that matched the search.

19. Information resource title.

20. Location – Indicates in what UPR campus the resource is located.

21. Collection – Indicates in what library collection is located.

22. Call Number – the number that is used to locate the book on the book shelve.

23. Status – Indicates if the resource is available or not.

24. Item Type – Indicates the type of resource.

26. All Searches here you can find other search options. All Title Browse – To search by title. Example: Like water to chocolate.

27. Author Browse – To search by author. You have to write the Authors last name, then the name. Example: Esquivel, Laura.

28. Author Keywoard – To search by the authors name without an specific order. Example: you can write Laura Esquivel or Esquivel Laura.

29. Dewey Call Numbers – If you know the call number, you can search using this number (example: 791.4372 H673 DVD).

30. General Keyword – To search by specific words that identify your topic. This option will retrieve resources that have the word in any field.

31. Instructor Alphabetical – To locate resources that are put by professor on the Reserve bookroom (ex. Rodríguez, Lydia).

32. Journal/Newspaper Title Browse – This option is to search by a journal or newspaper title (ej. Education and training in developmental disabilities).

33. Publication Date – To retrieve resources by publication date.

34. Subject Browse –To locate resources of a specific topic (ex. Architecture).

35. Subject Keyword –To locate resources that have on the subject field the word you write (ex. Architecture).

36. Another way to limit your search is by Keyword Searches.

38. Write the word Education under Subject Keyword .

39. Limit your search to locate resources on the Circulation Collection .

40. Click the arrow.

41. 11 records were retrieved. This means there are 11 resources with Paulo Freire as author, about Education and that are on the Circulation Collection .

42. Another way to limit your search is to use Combined Keyword.

43. Here you can use the Boolean Operators ( AND, OR, NOT ). The purpose is to control the results and be able to limit the search. Boolean operators.

44. With AND you can retrieve resources that presents all the words included on the search, (example: drugs and adolescents).

45. With OR you can retrieve resources with at least one word used during the search. (ex. drugs OR adolescents).

46. With NOT you can exclude a word from the search results, (ex. adiction NOT alcohol).

47. After reading this presentation you should be able to complete the exercise.