DESTINY

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Get all the features and functions you need today
to support your instructional class lesson
plans! Locate information from the ALL Library
Media Centers in Tuscaloosa County Schools
District. Access the ALSDE Standards
individualized Web sites (via Webpath).
Access at school and at home with Internet access.
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Destiny Tutorial
A guide to making your catalog (OPAC) successful!
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Destiny Tutorial
Notice small print on green line. This is how
you move from screen to screen in Destiny.
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The Destiny catalog is a useful tool when trying
to locate materials in the TCSS libraries.
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School Home Page
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Using the catalog you can search by keyword,
title, author, subject
Look at your school or view all Tuscaloosa County
Schools.
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Searching by keyword
Using keyword, Destiny returns a list of items
with that word appearing in any record.
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Keyword gives you multiple listings. This list
gives 15 items with books a website. You are
viewing the end of search list.
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Searching for an author
Enter authors entire name or last name and find
books written by this person.
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Author display multiple listings.
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Searching by Title
Enter a title and Destiny lists a selection of
books or A/V materials in your school or TCSS or
websites on the Internet.
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Title indicates book A/V items
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Searching for a subject
If you want to find items about a specific
Subject, enter part of the word or all of it.
Make sure to use plural form instead of singular.
i.e. flies not fly lions not lion
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Subject search results
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Correlations with WEBSITESSpotlights posted each
month
Correlations with WEB SITES
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Current Internet results for Iraq
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ALSDE COS located in Destiny
All grades content subject areas
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ALSDE COS Standards- selectAlabama, standard,
subject, grade
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Correlations with ALSDE Content Standards
Content Standard 3 for 8th grade poetry in
Language Arts.
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Another feature of Destiny is the MY LIST
button. With Resource Lists, you can create a
bibliography for students to use or a list for
you to locate materials at library. It can be
printed for research and to search the shelves.
To add all the items in the search results to
your list, click ADD page to My List at the top
of the page. To add just the ones you are
interested in selecting, click ADD to My List
beside each item. Then, to see, edit, and print
your list, click View My List on side menu.
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Destiny
And never hesitate to ask for help! Destiny
offers much more!