The Library Catalogue

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The Library Catalogue
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From the Library homepage follow the link to
the catalogue.
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The catalogue home page consists of 3 parts Top
banner - with links to University and library
websites, My Library and Help. Central search
interface - where you choose search type and
input search words. Right side section -
supplementary links and news.
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For a basic search there are three main elements
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Search types
1 Search type The catalogue defaults to Keyword
search, but you may select Advanced, Title,
Author or Subject in the top tabs, or, ISBN,
Classmark etc in the Other Searches menu.
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What words
2What words you want to look for e.g. knowledge
economy
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Which collection
3Which part of the collection you want to look
in e.g. All Collections, Journals, E-Resources,
Theses
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Lets look for books about knowledge economy in
All Collections.
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First 18 hits are in the top relevance group
Most relevant titles
Sorted by relevance
The results list displays all the items that
match your Search sorted into up to five
relevance groups. Within each relevance group
items are displayed in date order (most recent
first)
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Top sort menu
Sorted by date
You may switch easily from relevance sort to
date or title sort by clicking in the top sort
menu. eg. This shows the results in date order
(reverse date)
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Top sort menu
Sorted by title
Sorting by title. Here is an alphabetical list of
ecology journals produced by doing a keyword
search on the word ecology in the Journals
Collection and then switching to title sort .
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Edition
Print format
Electronic format
DVD, Video
Library location
You can see basic details about items in the
initial display of hits. eg.Title, author,
publisher, edition, library location, and format
icons on the right side.
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Click on a title link to view a record.
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Here you can see more information about the
book. Availability gives the information about
each copy of the item.
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The Location tells you where to find the item.
eg. Main library, Learning Grid, Short
Loan Important Click on these locations for
further information. For example click on Main
Library and you get a classmark locator.
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Here is another example of clicking on a
Location. Click on BioMed Grid and a pop up
appears with information about the BioMed Grid
and a map.
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Classmark tells you where on the shelves to look
Loan type tells you how long an item can be
borrowed, or whether it is for use only in the
Library.
Status tells you if the item is available in the
Library, or, if it is on loan, when it is due
back.
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Help Link
for more information about Status and Loan
Types look at the catalogue help pages. Help gt
Locate Items
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Click on Full Record to see all the catalogue
record information.
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• Click on Find Similar Items to isolate the
  subject and author headings.
• You may click on these headings to find
• other works on these subjects
• other works by these authors.

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Click on Permalink to get a permanent link (url)
for this catalogue record. You can copy and
paste this web address into a web page. eg.
Reading list, blog, web bibliography.
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Type in the name of the journal e.g. Harvard
Business Review
Select the Journals collection
You can search for particular types of material.
For example a journal Choose title search,
enter Harvard Business Review, select Journals
collection and click on Submit.
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Result of title search for Harvard Business
Review journal
Print journal
Click on title of print journal for location and
holdings
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We can see the two locations for this print
journal the years which are held in the library
and the most recent copy received. In this case
pre-2000 holdings are held in our Store.
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Result of title search for Harvard Business
Review journal
Electronic journal
Click on title of the electronic journal for
holdings and access
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Check that holdings dates cover the date you are
interested in, then, click the link to access
full text..
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Sometimes you may find that a book is already on
loan
in that case you can request the book if you
need it yourself.
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Click on Request
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Enter the letter p followed by your library
barcode
Enter your library PIN
Click Submit
If you want to, you can choose a date when the
book will no longer be useful to you.
Further help
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If your request is successful you will see this
message. An email will be sent to your Warwick
account when it is ready to collect.
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You can view your own library record at My
Library. 1. View and Renew loans 2. Check and
cancel requests 3. Save favourite searches 4. Set
up email alerts 5. View outstanding fines 6. Keep
your reading history 7. Set up My Feed RSS
alerts Click My Library
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Login to My Library with your library
identification.
Enter the letter p followed by your library
barcode
Enter your library PIN
Use help if you have problems
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This an example of the display of a patron
record in My Library. Remember this is your
personal space and the information is
confidential to you. LOGOUT when you are
finished!
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Dont forget to use the Help function if you
get stuck. Click Help in the top right corner
of any catalogue page.
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Click to view tips
Also Need more search tips help is available on
all search screens as illustrated above for
Author Search Tips.
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Happy researching
Two hints to finish with

• Make use of the location guidance in the
  catalogue.
• To access journal articles, search by the journal
  title not the article title.