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February 28, 2005
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The
Library Catalog
We'll start our tutorial
with one of the most important items on
the website. The Library Catalog
is a database that tracks what materials
the library owns. Use the Library Catalog
to discover what books and journals the
library owns.
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The
Library Catalog:
searchable
by author, title,
subject, keyword
and other factors. |
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The Library Catalog is available from the
top toolbar on the Library Home Page:
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Top
Menu Bar of the Library Home Page |
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Additional
materials tracked in the library catalog include:
audiotapes, audio CDs, videotapes, DVDs, computer
software, CD-ROMs, electronic journals and
electronic books.
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Detail
from the Catalog homepage |
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When searching the
catalog, be sure to control the pulldowns
next to the search box. There may be one or two
pulldowns, depending on the type of search.
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Detail
from the Catalog record for
the
Journal
of Experimental Botany |
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An
important feature for our
Electronic Books and Electronic
Journals are links within the
catalog that allow
you to read these items right on
the screen.
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A
library catalog's basic purpose is to tell you if
a Library "has" an item. This is an
important point: when you are connected to a
Library's website, it is hard to tell what each
of the choices is for, and the catalog is for a
very specific purpose. Use a Library's Catalog
when you want to find out the following types of
answers:
- Does this
library have this book by this
author?
- Does this
library have this book by this
title?
- Does this
library have books on this subject?
- Does this
library subscribe to this journal?
The one thing that
a library catalog will not tell
you is:
- Does this
library have periodical articles on this
subject?
That is the job of
bibliographic databases, which we will cover
later.
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The
Catalog tells us about
the
Journal
of Experimental Botany
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Here
the Library Catalog does one of
its main jobs: it tells you about
the journal holdings for a
particular title (in this case,
the Journal
of Experimental Botany):
what floor it is on (2nd floor),
what its call number is (QK1
J763) , and what volumes and
years we have, and where they are
located on the 2nd floor. The
plus sign (+) indicates we have a
continuing subscription to this
journal. |
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The left side search
menu of the Library Catalog
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 Important changes
to the Library's technology have created
even better access to electronic
journals: you should now search for your
desired journal using
both
the "Periodicals / Newspapers" pulldown
and
the "Ejournals" link in the
Library Catalog. The
"Ejournals" link uses the new
"SFX" technology. |
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Once you
get a bibliographic citation from a database, you can then use
the library catalog to see if the library
has the book (search by title) or if the
library has the periodical ( search by
the title of the periodical, not the
title of the article). |
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This
bears repeating: The Library Catalog does
not keep track of individual
articles in periodicals. For articles on
a particular subject use our Databases. Thus, use the
Catalog to see if we have any of the Journal
of Social Work, not to see if
we have any articles on "social
worker burnout". |
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Except
for Electronic Books and Journals, most
of the materials tracked by the Library
Catalog are physical items held in our
building; thus, you will have to come to
the building to use them. For electronic
materials, look for a link towards the
top of the record for your periodical or
book that says something like: "View
this publication's electronic
version" |
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Whenever
you attempt to access an electronic
version, you may be asked to supply a
"PIN number". See the "PIN Numbers" link on
the Library Home Page
to get your pin number. |
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When
searching for a journal by title, be
mindful of the exact title: thus,
searching for the journal Ecology
is different from searching for the Journal
of Ecology. |
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