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this screen you can re-order the search results, see more details
about a selected title, or refine your search to return fewer or more results. |
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To
sort search results
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Click the Sort by
drop down button and select an option from the list. |
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Click the A..Z or
Z..A button to re-order the results in alphabetic or
reverse alphabetic order. |
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Note: The Sort by
options will not appear if the set returned is too large. |
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To find out more details about material of
interest
To reduce the number of search results
| Repeat the search with
one of the following suggestions: |
- Add more information about the author or title.
- Apply additional limiters to the search (Location, Collection, Library Site,
Date from the standard search screen. Advanced
searching also offers language, format and Opus
number limiters).
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To increase the number of search results
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Repeat the search with
one of following suggestions: |
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- Remove some of the search terms.
- Don't apply any limiters.
- Try a keyword search rather than a title search.
- Try searching for just a keyword, or just the title, or just the author
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Go to advanced search.
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On the browse a
list form set Choose a list to browse to an
appropriate index. |
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Enter the search
term. |
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Click the Search
button. |
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The screen will
display details of the index which match your search on the
left hand side and details of the material associated with
the highlighted index entry on the right.
Click on other entries in the list to see details of the
material associated with these entries. |
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Search results look irrelevant
| Try one of the following
suggestions: |
- Use Next and Previous to browse through the
results.
- Click on the title to view full details of the item.
- Repeating the search adding some further limiters. (Location, Collection, Library Site,
Date from the standard search screen. Advanced searching also
offers language, format and Opus number limiters.)
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| References can look
irrelevant if index entries are created from different parts
of the record. For example entries in the author index can be
created for a writer where s/he is the subject rather than the
author of the book. |
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To browse an index (following a Browse a list search on the advanced
search screen)
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In the index panel on
the left of the screen click Next icon to see the next set of
entries in the index. |
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The left
hand panel will display the next set of index entries.
The right hand panel will show the material associated with the
highlighted index entry. |
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Use Previous to
see the previous set of index entries. |
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To view the records for an index entry
(following a Browse a list search on the advanced search screen)
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Click the index entry
you are interested in. |
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The right
hand panel will display the items associated with your selected
entry.
If there lots of items associated with the index entry you can see
details of items further down the list by clicking on Next on
the right hand side of the screen. |
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To request a title
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Click the request
icon next to the right of the title you require |
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If you are not logged in
the screen will ask you to enter your barcode and pin number. |
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Click the Place
Request button. |
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The screen will guide
you through the process of placing the request of your choice. |
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For further information
click on Place Request Help. |
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What does Reserves mean
in the copies information?
| The number under the
Reserves heading indicates how many reservations there are
outstanding for the item. |
| If you choose to request
the item then it will take longer for you to get a copy the more
reservations there are. |
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What do the dates under Availability
mean?
| The dates are the due
dates of the items. This tells you when the item(s) should be back
in the library. |
| You can request an item
using the request icon if all the copies are on loan, or if you cannot find the item. |
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,videos 
and cassettes 
click on list to see details of copy availability.
click on Show
Library Holdings to see more information about the holdings.