Library Catalog

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Library Catalog

• The Feinberg Library Catalog is another example
  of a database
• It has records which represent books, videos,
  CDs, and government documents held at Feinberg
  Library
• Each record is likewise broken down into various
  fields describing the book, such as author,
  title, subjects headings, and date

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Sample Book Record
These are all the different fields in the record
describing the book
This is the call number that tells you where the
book is in the Library
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Database Search Options
These are your search options author, title,
keyword, and subject are the most common. In
the Library we call them access points. In
business they are called queries or query
language.
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Demo Author Search
Note search must be entered in the order lastname
firstname
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Author Search Results
See Next Screen
The first fourteen books are listed on this page.
Type a number to see the actual book record.
Press next screen or its keymap equivalent to see
the rest of the listing.
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Subject Heading Search
The words hospitality industry are entered in
the search box
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Listing of Subject Headings
A subject search returns a listing of all the
subject headings that include the words you
typed. Note the words hospitality and industry
in all the listings. The only exceptions are
BTbroader term, NTnarrower term, and RTrelated
term. These subjects are related to hospitality
industry in these ways.
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Selecting Subject Headings
You can select which subject headings you want to
see. Separate the numbers with commas or use a
range such as subject headings 6-12
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Final result from Subject Search
Once youve made your subject heading selection
the book records will be listed
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USE in Subject Headings
The Catalog is showing you the correct subject to
use here. The search request was for the words
women in management. The catalog is telling us
USE Women executives . Women executives is the
correct subject heading.
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More Complex Subject Heading Search
Ignore this number Its an estimate
More Subject Headings
Subject search for words Mexico economic
conditions. All the subject headings listed
contain these three words. Only 14 subject
headings at a time are displayed.
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Next screen with subject headings 15-28
Still more
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Select all the subject headings
42 subject headings in total. Select them all by
putting 1-42 on the selection bar
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Finally to the book records from our subject
search
There are 94 books with this subject heading
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Use the FIND Function
Once your search is complete you can use the Find
function to further narrow your results by year.
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Why Use the Find Function

• The Find functions allow you to select a range
  of publication years
• For the majority of business research you should
  use the most recent information
• Restrict your search to the most recent five-ten
  years
• There are a few exceptions to this rule such as
  historical economic series or historical company
  research

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Results of FIND function
The search is narrowed to 13 records
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Truncation Symbol
Use the symbol for plurals or word variation.
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Truncation Results
See the variations on Mexic . You can see
titles retrieved include both the words Mexico
and Mexican.