exploring the library catalog
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Exploring the Library Catalog
Honors 110: Research MethodsFall 2010
Search Results
Catalog Record
Catalog Record
Catalog Record
Table of Contents
Subject Links
Working with Your ResultsIn addition to sending a title to your cell phone, you can also save multiple items to list. You can then save, print, or email this list.
Other Ways to Search
• Quotation marks around phrases like “civil rights”
• Use AND to connect search terms (“bus boycott” AND
Alabama)
• Truncation (Gree? picks up both Greek & Greece)
• Advanced searching (Builder Search) → Helps to refine search
• And more…
Other Catalog Searches
Advanced Catalog Search
Advanced Catalog SearchMore options: Search as a phrase
Do You Know the Title You Want?If you know the title you want to find, check out this online tutorial.
• Following slides show keyword search in WRLC
catalog
• Can’t find a topic or title in the Mason catalog?
– Check out the WRLC to see if a consortium library has
it, like George Washington or American.
Washington Research Library Consortium
WRLC
Washington Research Library Consortium
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WRLCSearch Results
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WRLC
• Contact the librarians working with your Honors 110
section
• Call the Reference Desk
– Fenwick: 703-993-2210
– Johnson Center: 703-993-9070
• IM
• Check out the Infoguides
• Stop by the Reference Desk!
Questions?