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How to use the catalog to find books

This is our library catalog. Click here to access it.  You can search it to find books you would like.  Some popular ways to find books are by the title of the book, the author, or the subject.

Keyword Search

One of the easiest searches to do is a keyword search.  You can type any information into the search box, and then highlight the keyword search button, and then do a search for any information that is in the computer about the book.  For some books, the computer does not have much information in it.  But the computer will always have at least the title, and the author of the book.

Title Search

Sometimes when you search by keyword you will get a lot of different books.  If you get too many, but you know the title of a book, you can do a title search.  To do a title search type in the title of a book-but do not type in a, an, or the at the beginning of a title.  Then click the button by title and click on the search button.

Author Search

If you want a list of everything that we own by an author, do an author search.  To do an author search, type in the author's last name first.  If you know the author's first name then type a comma, a space and the authors first name.  Then click the button by author and click on the search button.

Subject Search

If you want to do a really specific search you can do a subject search.  A subject search will look at all of the titles in the computer, and will only show you titles where your subject matches a subject already in the record.  Be careful with this search-a record can have something in its title, but not in the subject and will not show up.  If you do not get any results with this search try a keyword search.  To do a subject search type in the subject you want to know more about.  Then click the button by subject and click on the search button.