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How to Use the AUR Catalog
The AUR catalog contains everything cataloged currently. It is designed not only to help people find materials in the local AUR collection, but in other collections in Rome, as well as those in electronic collections on the World Wide Web. It works basically the same as other library catalogs, but it allows users to search other databases as easily as possible. It is a work in progress and any comments are much appreciated. Send comments to the Library. The records in the catalog are for materials held locally (i.e. printed books and serials), and electronic texts owned by AUR. They are cataloged according to Anglo-American Cataloging Rules 2nd edition and the Library of Congress Subject Headings.
Searching
Search the catalog as you would any other catalog. The Simple Search with a single search box searches all of the text in the catalog records. If you want a more specific search, use Advanced Search.
Advanced Search
Record Display
Bibliographic records have various places where you can click to get additional information. You can try these and see how they work.
See also:
See also: AUR Library Map
The AUR catalog contains everything cataloged currently. It is designed not only to help people find materials in the local AUR collection, but in other collections in Rome, as well as those in electronic collections on the World Wide Web. It works basically the same as other library catalogs, but it allows users to search other databases as easily as possible. It is a work in progress and any comments are much appreciated. Send comments to the Library. The records in the catalog are for materials held locally (i.e. printed books and serials), and electronic texts owned by AUR. They are cataloged according to Anglo-American Cataloging Rules 2nd edition and the Library of Congress Subject Headings.
Searching
Search the catalog as you would any other catalog. The Simple Search with a single search box searches all of the text in the catalog records. If you want a more specific search, use Advanced Search.
Advanced Search
The Advanced Search provides more specific searching than in the single search.
You can search more specifically by titles, authors, subjects, series, while defining specific formats (e.g. electronic), or specific locations (e.g. reference).
You can also determine the sort order and the number of items on each page.
The browse (...) command that is available within the Advanced Search page often provides a quicker and more accurate way of searching. For example, if you browse for "Smith" as an author, you will get an alphabetical lists of everyone with the name "Smith" in their name. Some authors have written more than one book, and you can select just those items.
It currently works only with a single word.
Truncation You can search more specifically by titles, authors, subjects, series, while defining specific formats (e.g. electronic), or specific locations (e.g. reference).
You can also determine the sort order and the number of items on each page.
The browse (...) command that is available within the Advanced Search page often provides a quicker and more accurate way of searching. For example, if you browse for "Smith" as an author, you will get an alphabetical lists of everyone with the name "Smith" in their name. Some authors have written more than one book, and you can select just those items.
It currently works only with a single word.
Truncation allows you to search more than exact words. Do this with the asterisk (*). For example, fasci* retrieves fascist, fascism, fascists, etc.
Boolean searching is very simple in this catalog and everything is linked with AND. What is Boolean searching?
Boolean searching is very simple in this catalog and everything is linked with AND. What is Boolean searching?
Record Display
Bibliographic records have various places where you can click to get additional information. You can try these and see how they work.
See also:
Extending your search
Internet Search Engines
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