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General Help
Search Help
Helpful Tips for Beginners 
Basic and Advanced Search
Screens
Basic Search and Advanced Search screens
have pull-down menus. Click and hold the mouse on the arrow
on the right to see the choices in any pull-down menu.
Select a choice by dragging your mouse to it and highlighting
it.
If you are using Basic Search, press Enter or click the Submit
button to send your search to the system. If you are using Advanced
Search, you must click the Submit button to send your search to the
system.
Bibliographic Records and
Fields
Searches are done on "bibliographic records" that
describe Children's Literature materials. Bibliographic
records generally look something like this:
Author, etc.:
Lovechild, Miss
Title:
The ladder to learning / [electronic resource] by Miss Lovechild.
Edition:
Marks' ed.
Published:
Albany : R.H. Pease, [1852?].
Description:
15, [1] p. : col. ill. ; 17 cm.
Notes:
Publisher's advertisement follows text on back cover.
Date from inscription.
Text printed on one side of leaf only, with printed pages facing each other;
blank pages included in pagination
Illustrations are hand-colored.
Cover title
Subjects, children's:
Alphabet rhymes--Juvenile literature.
Genre/form headings:
Publishers' advertisements--1852.
Hand-colored illustrations--1852.
Primers (Instructional books)--1852.
Publishers' paper bindings (Binding)--1852.
Alphabet books--1852.
Other author(s), etc.:
Pease, Richard H., 1813-1869.
Geographic location:
United States New York Albany.
LINKS:
Electronic resource (JPEG)
Electronic resource (PDF)
As you can see, bibliographic records are composed of
labeled sections called "fields". The sample
record above has one field labeled "Author" containing
the information "Lovechild, Miss", and
one field labeled "Title" containing the information "The
ladder to learning". There is 1 field labeled "Subjects,
children's" and 5 fields labeled "Genre/form
headings". When you do a search on a bibliographic
record, you can chose to search all the data in the record,
or only data in certain fields.
Keyword and Headings Indexes
Most search options are for either Keyword or
Headings type indexes. In a Keyword type
index, words can be searched regardless of where they
appear in the field of the bibliographic record. For
example, the search type called Keyword(s)
is a Keyword type of index. Searching
the word "John" in the Keyword(s)
index will find both of these authors:
John, Nancy
Lovechild, Miss
Pease, Richard H.
Words searched in Keyword type indexes have to match exactly.
If you want to search on part of a word, you have to use the symbol "?" to
indicate where to truncate your search term. For example, searching the word "John" in
the Keyword(s) index will not match on "Johnson",
but, searching "John?" will.
In a Headings type index, your search
term is matched against the start of each field, from left
to right. Right truncation is assumed. For example, searching
the word "John" in an author headings index will
find both of these authors:
John, Nancy
Johnson, Lyndon Baines
but it will not find the author
Dickison, J.J. (John J.)
Browsing by Author or Title
It is possible to browse the collection by clicking the Author
List or Title List buttons on the Literature for
Children collection home page. Choose one of these options
to retrieve an alphabetical list of documents available
in Literature for Children collection.
Author List: This list is arranged by
the last name of the author. Selecting a letter from the A
to Z bar jumps to documents written by authors whose
last name starts with the selected letter.
Title List: This list is arranged alphabetically
by title. Selecting a letter from the A to Z bar
jumps to titles starting with the selected letter.
Basic Searching
The Basic Search screen lets you search
for keywords, authors, titles, and subjects; genre/form
headings can be searched as though they are subjects. For
additional options, click on Advanced Search in
the toolbar.
Search types available on
the Basic Search Screen
- Keyword(s):
Use this search to find a word or words anywhere in the bibliographic record
(that is, words in author names, titles, subjects or notes). If you enter
more than one word, the system assumes that both words are required (AND)
in the same bibliographic record. This is a Keyword type
of index. If you want to search on part of word, use a question mark (?)
to indicate where you have truncated the word (e.g., typing hurricane? finds
hurricane and hurricanes).
- Author's Name:
Use this search to find authors, editors and other contributors. Authors
may be people or organizations. You can type all or part of a name, but
you must type the author's last name first.
Examples:
scott
scott thomas
jacksonville board
- Title:
Use this search to find a title. Don't enter initial articles (i.e., type "sound
and the fury" not "the sound and the fury"). You can type
all or part of the title.
Examples:
dogs grand dinner party
ladder of learning
sugar and spice
- Subject:
Use this search to find subject headings, including
Library of Congress subject headings, genre/form headings,
and geographic locations. If you don't know the heading
exactly, try using a Keyword(s) search. You can enter
all or part of the subject heading. If the subject heading
displays with a double dash, include the dashes in your
search.
Examples:
alphabet
alphabet books--1852
New York
primers
When searching geographic locations, separate name elements with spaces;
do not use commas. Name elements may be listed in any order. Searches for "New
York Albany", "Albany New York", "New Albany York" and "York
Albany New", for example, produce the same result.
Format Options on the
Basic Search Screen
Most materials in the Literature for Children collection
have been digitized and are available for viewing online
in both PDF and JPEG formats. Some materials have been
selected for digitization but are not yet available. The Format box
allows you to retrieve information about all materials
that match your search (All Items) or to restrict your
results to only those materials that are available for
viewing online (Items Available Online).
Advanced Searching
The Advanced Search screen contains an
extended search form, which enables you to enter search
terms in various field groupings. You may also limit the
format and/or grade level of the materials you retrieve.
When should the Advanced Search Screen be used?
- if you retrieve too many results with a Basic search
- if you need to do complex Boolean searches
- if you want to limit results to a particular grade
level
Search types available on
the Advanced Search Screen
The Advanced Search screen allows you
to enter all the searches available on the Basic
Search form (Keyword(s), Author's Name, Title, Subject,
Timeline). It also allows these additional searches:
- Subject Keywords: This search looks
for words in subject, genre/form headings, and geographic
location fields only. This is a Keyword type
of search.
- Title Keywords: This search looks
for words in title fields only. This is a Keyword type
of search.
- Author Keywords: This search looks
for words in author fields only. This is a Keyword type
of search.
- Browse Keywords: This search option
lets you browse through a list of terms from the keyword
index alphabetically preceding and following the term
you enter. Clicking on a term will take you to a list
of records containing that term, and is the same as entering
that term as a Keyword(s) search.
- Journal/Magazine Title: Your input
text is searched for as a title except that the results
are limited to journals, magazines, annuals and other
items that are published at periodic intervals. This
search type helps eliminate from your search results
items with similar titles that are not journals. For
example, if you want to look for the magazine Time, the
journal title search will return only Time, and leave
out the many hits on the Time-Life books series. This
is a Headings type of search.
- Subject Headings LC: This search looks
for Library of Congress Subject Headings only. This is
a Headings type of search.
- Browse A/T/S: This search type allows
you to search the merged author/title/subject (a/t/s)
headings index in a dictionary format with cross-references.
In the a/t/s index, you can display the closest place
to the text you enter in your search statement. You will
be able to browse forward and backward through the a/t/s
headings and you may navigate to records. This is a Headings type
of search.
- Keyword Notes/Abstracts: This search
looks for words in notes and abstracts only. This is
a Keyword type of search.
- ISBN: Standard number searching enables
you to locate a work if you know the number. This search
type causes the system to look for your search text in
the International Standard Book Number (ISBN) index for
headings that match your input. This is a Headings type
of search.
- ISSN: Standard number searching enables
you to locate a work if you know the number. This search
type causes the system to look for your search text in
the International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) index
for headings that match your input. This is a Headings type
of search.
- OCLC Control Number: Standard number
searching enables you to locate a work if you know the
number. This search type causes the system to look for
your search text in the Online Computer Library Center
Control Number index for headings that match your input.
This is a Headings type of search.
- LC Control Number: Standard number
searching enables you to locate a work if you know the
number. This search type causes the system to look for
your search text in the Library of Congress Control Number
(LCCN) index for headings that match your input. This
is a Headings type of search.
Limits available on the
Advanced Search Screen
Format
Most materials in the Literature for Children collection
have been digitized and are available for viewing online
in both PDF and JPEG formats. Some materials have been
selected for digitization but are not yet available. The Format box
allows you to retrieve information about all materials
that match your search (All Items) or to restrict
your results to only those materials that are available
for viewing online (Items Available Online).
Taking Advantage of Boolean
and Proximity Operators:
Boolean Operators
A Boolean operator allows you to specify the logical relationship
between search terms that occur in the same record. The Advanced
Search screen allows you to use the following
Boolean operators:
- and:
The and operator is used to make a connection between two
terms that will retrieve records. And retrieves all records
containing at least one occurrence of the specified terms. All of the specified
terms must be in the record. And is useful for decreasing
the amount of records retrieved by a search statement. Please note WebLUIS
supplies and as the default operator if more than one term
appears in the input box and you do not explicitly select the operator(s)
in your search.
- or:
The or operator retrieves records that contain one term
or the other, or both, regardless of their position in a record. Or is
used to combine two or more terms that are synonyms or variant terms. Or is
useful for increasing the amount of records retrieved.
- not:
Not is used to exclude from your retrieval
sets those records that contain a certain term or terms.
In other words, the not operator retrieves
any record which contains the first term but not the
second. You should use not only when absolutely certain
that you do not want any records that happen to contain
the not term. If your not term is not very specific,
you may accidentally exclude some relevant records.
Proximity Operators
- adj:
The adj operator searches for terms that occur adjacent
to each other in the same sentence or phrase (in the order typed); in other
words, the second term immediately follows the first term. Stopwords may
exist between the two search terms, they are ignored.
- near:
The near operator also searches for terms that are adjacent
to each other. Near is the same as adj,
except that the two search terms can occur in either order.
- within n (where n is a number):
The within n operator (where n is a number) is the same
as near except that n specifies the maximum number of words that can occur
between the two search terms. For example, florida within 1 university,
would retrieve those records containing such phrases as the University of
Florida, Florida Atlantic University, Florida International University, and
Florida State University.
- same:
Using same to combine terms will retrieve those records
that have the search terms appearing in the same field of a record (not necessarily
together) and in either order. For example, common same law,
would retrieve records with information about common law and law passed by
Britain's House of Commons as well as this work: The Alien and the Immigration
Law written by the Common Council for American Unity.
Search Tips Using Boolean
and Proximity Operators
In any kind of keyword(s) search type
you may use proximity and/or boolean operators in a single
input box. For example, if you choose Author Keywords as
your search type, you may type two or more names in one
input box using a boolean and/or proximity operator --
e.g. shakespeare or aristotle. Remember,
the system default is and so use parentheses to specify
the order in which you would like the system to execute
the various components of your search statement -- e.g. (shakespeare
or aristotle) and poetry. You may use multiple
levels of parentheses (or nesting) if needed. Be sure that
each set of parentheses is complete.
Understanding Search Results
Entering your search terms on either Basic Search
or Advanced Search screens causes the system
to return with a search results page. Your Search Terms
are displayed under the toolbar and before the results
list. The total number of "hits" (records that
matched your search) is indicated as well as the record
count.
The results list usually contains short entries (generally
title, author and date of publication) for records matching
your search. The title is a hyperlink you can click on
to see the full bibliographic record. There are also hyperlinks
to the full text of the document, if it is available online,
in both JPEG and PDF formats. If you display the full bibliographic
record for a document, access points such as authors, series
and subjects are hyperlinks. Clicking on those hyperlinks
performs a new search for records matching that heading.
E-Mail and Print Options
It is possible to e-mail bibliographic records to any
e-mail address. To select a record for emailing, click
on (check) the Mark box to the left of the short results
entry, or at the top left of the full bibliographic record.
You can mark any number of records for emailing. When you
are ready to mail, click on E-mail Marked under Command
Options bar to the right of the screen. The system
will prompt you to choose a record format and to enter
your email address. The records are mailed when you click
on Send. To clear out the checks in the Mark boxes, use
your browser's Reload function.
It is also possible to format one or more bibliographic
records for printing by first marking the record(s) you
want by checking the Mark box(es) and then selecting Print
Marked from Command Options. This reformats
the records on your screen. You can then use your browser's Print function
to actually print them.
Formats available for emailing and printing are Brief, Long and Tagged.
The Brief format is good for producing a short citation or
list of citations with locations and call numbers, for example, for taking
to the bookstacks. The Long format gives complete bibliographic
information including all subjects, series and notes, as well as locations
and call numbers. The Tagged format is useful for importing
into citation managers such as ProCite and Notebook II.
General Help
Minimum Browser Requirements
The Palmm Collection works with all standard compliant
browsers. Current versions of Firefox and
Microsoft Internet
Explorer (or similar browser with Java and Javascript
enabled) are recommended. Current versions of Firefox and
Internet Explorer are available free for downloading.
Full text documents in Literature for Children collection
are available in Portable Document Format (PDF) for downloading
and printing. Your browser must be configured to run the
Acrobat Reader software in order to read a PDF document.
Acrobat Reader is available free and can be downloaded
from Adobe's
Download Page. For a detailed instruction and a step-by-step
tutorial you may refer to the Acrobat
Reader Tutorial.
Electronic Formats: JPEG
and PDF
Documents in the Literature for Children collection are
available in JPEG and PDF formats.
JPEG:
JPEG images are good for displaying online in your browser. Every page of books
and other documents in the Literature for Children collection is represented
by one JPEG image. To move from page to page, use the Next and Previous buttons
on the menu bar at the top or bottom of the screen.
PDF:
PDF files are good for downloading and printing. In general, all of the pages
in a chapter or other type of section are "bundled together" into
a single PDF file. When you click on a link to a PDF file the Adobe Acrobat
Reader launches automatically and displays the document on your screen. The
Acrobat Reader has navigation tools that allow you to turn pages, zoom in
and out, and print or download the file. You must have the Acrobat Reader
properly configured in your browser. Please see Minimum
Browser Requirements for more information.
Using Full Text Documents
Navigation (moving around)
Choosing either the JPEG or the PDF version of a document
will take you to the Table of Contents for the document.
Selecting (clicking on) any entry from the Table of Contents
will take you directly to that section.
In the JPEG version, clicking on Next and Previous on the menu bar at the top
or bottom of the page will take you to the next or previous page of the document,
even if that page is in another section. That is, you can "next" directly
from the last page of Chapter 1 to the first page of Chapter 2 if you want.
In the PDF version, every section is a separate PDF file. You can move from
page to page within the section by using the vertical scroll bar at the right
of the screen, or the page turner in the command bar at the bottom of the PDF
window. (The page turner shows "n of n" -- e.g. "1 of 3" --
between left and right arrows.) To move to another section, use your browser's
Back button to return to the Table of Contents, and then select the section
you want.
Menu Bar
Options
The menu bar displays at the top and bottom of the Table
of Contents page and every JPEG image page. Only relevant
options display at any time -- e.g., you will never see
a "Next" button if you are on the last page of
a document. The possible buttons and their meanings are
listed below.
- Citation: This will take you back
to the bibliographic description of the document in WebLUIS.
- Contents: This will take you to the
Table of Contents.
- Go To Page: This will take you directly
to a page selected from the pull-down menu to the right
of this button. Select the page you want from the pull-down
and click the "Go To" button.
- Next: This will take you to the next
page in a document, or the next image in an ordered set
of images (e.g. the next postcard in a collection of
postcards).
- PDF Files | JPEG Images: This functions
as a toggle, switching you to the PDF version if you
are currently viewing JPEG, and vice versa. In all cases,
it will return you to the Table of Contents for the new
format.
- Prev: This takes you to the previous
page of a document, or the previous image in an ordered
group of images (e.g. an earlier postcard in a postcard
collection).
- Search results: This will take you
back to the results of your last previous search in WebLUIS.
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