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Finding Children's Books using the Online Catalog

 

 

1.  Enter a title, partial title, keyword or author's name in the "Find This" box.

 

2.  In the "Find Results In" box, select the appropriate type of search.  For example:

 

• If you know the exact title, select "Left Anchored Title". Omit articles such as "the", "a", "an" at the beginning of the title.  For example, type in secret garden rather than the secret garden.

   

 

• If you want any children's books about a particular topic, choose "Keyword Relevance Search".

 

• Select "Title Keyword Browse" to find books with your keyword in the title (this will focus your search to the most relevant books).

 

• If you know the author, select "Author Browse" and type in the author's name Last Name First.

 

 

3.  **For all children's book searches, select "Juvenile-Harsh" from the 3rd menu box (Quick Limit), so that the computer will only search children's books, not the entire collection**.

 

You can also search by these characteristics (alone, or in combination by clicking on the Builder Search Tab (next to the Simple Search tab on the online catalog search page) and selecting "keyword anywhere):

 

Nationality of author: for example, French author

 

Nationality of illustrator:  Russian illustrator

 

Country the story is set in:  Japanese setting

 

Language:  Spanish Language

 

Age or grade level the book is appropriate for,

using the format gr. 8 or gr Preschool, age 6, or age 12-up, etc.

 

 

Each Catalog Entry gives the following information:

 

Title, Author, Location, Call Number, and Status.

 

 

Pay particular attention to:

Library Location:  Tells you if the book is in the Juvenile Collection or the Harsh Collection. (If it says “title has multiple holdings”, there are copies of the book in both collections. Click on title for call numbers).

 

Call Number:  The "address" of the book. Use this number to find the book on the shelf. First go to the correct part of the library (Juvenile Collection or Harsh Collection), then find the call number (arranged in numerical order), and then the letter following the call number.  Click here for more information on understanding & using Dewey Decimal Call Numbers.

 

 

 

Status:  Tells you if the book is checked out (“charged”) or is "available" for check out.

 

 To see more information on a book, click on the title. Click on “Bibliographic” to see Subject Headings and other detailed information. (Click on the blue, underlined headings to see other books on that subject).

 

Some books also have information under the “Table of Contents” tab.

 

 

Click on the Author’s name to see other books by that author which are owned by the library.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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