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PORTSMOUTH ABBEY SCHOOL LIBRARY- SAINT THOMAS MORE LIBRARY

PORTSMOUTH ABBEY SCHOOL LIBRARY- SAINT THOMAS MORE LIBRARY. DE .5 A57 1998 REF Vol. 1. HOLDINGS. Library has--- Materials (Books, CDs, DVDs, Journals) Computers Databanks on-line Reserves by teachers Staff to help you. Library has 2 floors. You will enter from the classroom stairs

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PORTSMOUTH ABBEY SCHOOL LIBRARY- SAINT THOMAS MORE LIBRARY

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  1. PORTSMOUTH ABBEY SCHOOL LIBRARY- SAINT THOMAS MORE LIBRARY DE .5 A57 1998 REF Vol. 1

  2. HOLDINGS Library has--- Materials (Books, CDs, DVDs, Journals) Computers Databanks on-line Reserves by teachers Staff to help you

  3. Library has 2 floors • You will enter from the classroom stairs • This is what you see but it is from the • inside • coming • upstairs • from below

  4. LOCATION OF MATERIALS UPSTAIRS Reference books (A-Z), Marked REF after whole call number, near window facing Holy Lawn Book Call # N in 2 art history seminar rooms Book Call # A-H Paperbacks PZ (popular current fiction) Current Magazines-Newspapers Reserves placed by teachers

  5. LOCATION OF MATERIALS DOWNSTAIRS Book Call # J-Z Music CDs Stored paper copy of magazines

  6. FINDING MATERIALS USING THE ONLINE COMPUTER • At Portsmouthabbey.org • Go to “Academics” then “Library” • “Library holdings” is a drop down • OR 4 computers in library are • Automatically set to catalog FINDING LIBRARY MATERIALS IN THE ON-LINE COMPUTER

  7. MUST KNOW LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING Like Dewey system at your former school or a good bookstore it is based on subjects BUT- has More subjects and more complicated sub system Need only general idea of how it works to be able to browse the shelves like a bookstore

  8. PS 3515 .E37 F3 Letters for American Literature =PS 20th century authors whose last names begin with A-H =3515 Letter and number for Hemingway is E37 (30 books or so this number) Letter and number for title Farewell to Arms =F3 CALL NUMBERS (example 1)

  9. ooo E 302.6 .F8 C54 Letters for monasterycollection holding Letter for American history # for 18th century Amer. Biography Letter and # for Benjamin Franklin Letter and # for author Ronald Clark CALL NUMBERS (example 2)

  10. DE 59 .C55 1987 REF Letters for Greco- Roman Civilization Number for general works-Greece and Rome Letter & number for title of the work Year of Publication Located in REFERENCE area CALL NUMBERS (example 3)

  11. LOOKING UP A BOOK Do you know- • The author? • The title? • The subject?

  12. USING THE COMPUTER SCREEN • One button says author • One says title • One says subject • One says keyword • One says series

  13. MAIN SCREEN • main.JPG

  14. AUTHOR BUTTON Use Last name first to search what someone wrote example King, Martin Luther King, Stephen NOT Martin Luther King or Stephen King—THESE OPEN The alphabet at M or S not King

  15. AUTHOR SEARCH-KING

  16. AUTHOR SEARCH HENINGWAY

  17. On Screen-see left side • Notice what you typed appears in BOLD letters at top left column

  18. SUBJECT BUTTON • Think about what is truly the subject in simplest terms United States-History Impressionism-Art Trees Genetics Cloning

  19. SUJJECT-GENETICS

  20. SUBJECT BUTTON-PEOPLE • For items about people (as subject of biography or autobiography) not as author Use subject button then- Last name first

  21. SUBJET HEMINGWAY

  22. TITLESIf you know the complete, accurate title, use this button. Here all item titles in the collection are shown in alphabetical order.

  23. TITLESFOR “HEMINGWAY”

  24. KEYWORD AND POWER BUTTONS • Search System defaults to “subject” even if hit keyword button on main screen. Use the Power tab instead (located in upper left) to do a • Keyword search

  25. POWER TAB More useful for the times you know only a part of a title or want to see everything with that word in any record in the system. Can find all times Hemingway appears in any item record.

  26. CHOOSEPOWERFROM MAINSCREEN YOU SEE

  27. POWER SCREEN

  28. HEMINGWAY-Collins-came up when used power screen

  29. HemingwayPowersearchExample

  30. Why see Gates record? • Ernest Hemingway comes up but so does a co-author named Hemingway on a book about Bill Gates. It appears because you used power screen for searching all times Hemingway appears in any item record.

  31. IN CLOSING • If you have questions after viewing the presentation come visit the library and we will help you. • Thank you for listening

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