introduction to opac
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LAU LibrariesOnline Public Access Catalog OPAC (WebView)
Prepared byHoueida Kammourié-Charara
Electronic Resources Librarian© 2010
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LAU Libraries Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC): WebView
To access LAU’s Libraries OPAC go to the LAU website– Libraries—Research Tools—Library Catalog OR click on the following URL or copy it into your web browser address box: http://olibweb263.lau.edu.lb:7782/eolib263
WebView includes materials (books, maps, audiovisual materials, etc.) owned by both LAU Libraries: Beirut (BE) and Byblos (BY).
WebView shows the availability of all items, whether they are available on the shelf, on loan to another user, or on order.
WebView Is multilingual; you can search for materials in English, Arabic, and French, etc.
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A variety of searches is available: Keyword is the most used search
E-reserve link
To access your Library account by using your LAU ID and date of birth
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Title/Author SearchYou can edit your search
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Title detailsBooks that are on order have the availability field empty
Availability field: Barcode, location, Shelfmark, Status (item on loan, available, etc.), Category, (building use, standard loan, etc.)
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ShelfmarkShelfmark is composed of several parts:
• Symbol for type, category or language of material: e.g. R for Reference, A for Arabic, etc.
• Dewey Number to classify material according to topics
• Cutter Number for the author
• Copy Number
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Keyword searchThe Keyword search
includes three checkboxes which specify whether the system does an exact phrase search, an automatic Boolean AND search or an automatic Boolean OR search
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Keyword SearchKeyword searches in the following fields:
TitleAuthorSubjectSeriesNotesAbstractPublisher
Boolean operators: AND, OR, NOTTruncation mark %Parentheses are used to control the precedence of
the Boolean operators
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Keyword SearchAND or and both are used, but use AND,OR NOT upper case to get used to it for the databases searching
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Keyword Searching use of parenthesis: Israel NOT (Lebanon AND war)
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Keyword Searching use of parenthesis: (Lebanon AND war) NOT Israel
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Subject SearchSubject search is different
from keyword search.
It is a controlled vocabulary taken from the Library of Congress Subject Headings.
By default the box: “retrieve a list of Subject heading” is checked.
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List of subject headings
Click on the # to go to the record
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Titles retrieved with matching subjects after removing tick
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Filtering
Several filtering options are available
# of hits per page can be increased in order to have ISBD list in one page
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Sorting
A variety of sorting options are available from the drop down menu
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Printing from WebView To print a selection of items retrieved, in the
hitlist display, click in the numbered box in the left hand column adjacent to the title(s) you wish to print.
Click on the ISBD Icon
An ISBD list will be displayed
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ISBD Titles Selection Selection is at the
page level ONLY.
Each page SHOULD be printed after selection.
You can fix this problem by increasing the # of hits per page from 20 to 500.
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ISBD List
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For more information about the Libraries e-resources visit:
http://www.lau.edu.lb/libraries/
OrContact the Electronic Resources Librarian
ext. 1817