1. SEARCHING LIBRARY CATALOGUE15 MINUTE TUTORIAL TO FIND WHAT YOU NEED LRC Skills

3. To access LRC Catalogue Online (called Heritage) go to Student Portal and click on link to LRC Portal:

4. To search catalogue put your search term in the search box on the right side of page (Simple Search) or click on Advanced Search.1/18

6. Search for simple, short phrases. Break down what you want to search for into small pieces: you should search for nutrition AND sport, not How nutrition affects sport performance.2/18

8. For example, type nutritionand click on the search button (a magnifying glass).

9. Make sure you spell words properly, because unlike Google, catalogue search won’t correct them for you.3/18

11. 36 resources have been found with newest on the top; use the arrows to jump from one page of the results to another.

12. If any of those resources seem to be useful, click on the title to see more details and find out where it is in the LRC.4/18

14. There are two copies of this book in the Library. One is on loan till 24 Nov 2010 and one is available – it should be on the shelf.

15. Shelfmark describes this resource’s location on the LRC shelves.

16. Rememberto write down Shelfmark if you want to find what you need quickly.5/18

18. If you are looking for resources on disability, you will be interested in all keywords: disabled, disability, disabling, so using disab*as your search term will give you more results.

21. Class

22. Series title

23. Title

24. Publisher

25. Publication Year

26. If you know classification number for your subject, you can use it as search term: just choose “Search in: Class” and type number. Adding star will give you better results, try: 150* for psychology8/18

28. CD (electronic materials accompanying books)

29. Digital Versatile Disk (DVD)

30. Journals (Magazines – you can only search for magazine title, it is not possible to search for articles)9/18

32. We are looking for how nutrition affects sport performance, therefore we should search for nutrition AND sport.

33. We got 5 results – that’s a good start.10/18

36. use AND to combine keywords and find more specific resources that are about both things, like: advertising AND children

38. displays resources that are about one thing or another

39. use OR to search for alternative keywords, like: sport OR fitness13/18

41. searches for the first one but not the second one

42. use if you want to exclude something from your search results, like: mice AND NOT computer14/18

45. Have a look at the graph and analyze how the number changes with subject getting more specific.

47. You will find shelfmark in the Catalogue and on the spine of the book.

48. On the shelves books are organised by number:

49. And within the same number – by alphabetical order:

50. Do you remember where to find shelfmark?17/18

51. Well done! Now you know how to search and find resources in almost every library, catalogue or database. For more information go to the LRC Portal or ask Librarians. We are here to help  Thank you!