Library Circulation Student Assistant training

1. What is ONESearch?

2. What's in this
Slideshow?
What is ONESearch?
What resources are
"discoverable" by ONESearch?
How do you search for a book
by title in ONESearch?
How do you help the patron
find the book?

3. What is ONESearch?
• It's a "discovery service"
• a single search interface to "discover" all
the resources that are managed by Alma
• Multiple sources, ONE search*
• search and relevancy ranking like you
might expect from Google or a similar
search engine
*ONESearch doesn't discover everything perfectly

4. Library Catalog
Databases
What resources are
"discoverable" by
ONESearch?

5. Library
Catalog
Books
eBooksVideos
Print
Journals

6. Library
Databases
Articles
(scholarly,
news,
magazine)
Reviews (movies,
literature)
Videos

7. Search for a Book by Title in OneSearch
Enter the title in
ONESearch
1
Choose the "Library
Catalog" option &
hit the search
button
2
Check the "Held by
library" option on
the left & click
"Apply Filters"
3
Make sure the book
is available
4
Note the call
number
5

8. Search for a Book by Title in OneSearch
1. Enter the title in ONESearch
2. Choose the "Library Catalog"
option & hit the search button

9. Search for a Book by Title in OneSearch
3. Check the "Held by library"
option on the left & click
"Apply Filters"

10. Search for a Book by Title in OneSearch
4. Make sure the book is
available
5. Note the call number

11. Help Patron Find the Book
Write call
number on
bookmark
1
Circle the
floor the book
is on
2
Direct patron
to find the
book
3
Point out the
text for help
option
4

12. 1. Write call number on bookmark
2. Circle the floor the book is on

13. 3. Direct patron to find the book
4. Point out the text for help option