A Guide to UsingNew Brighton Public Library’s

Online Catalog

Maria FeraciolyLS 500

The Guide

• Intended for novice users as an introduction to the online catalog’s capabilities.

• The guide would be available on the New Brighton Public Library’s website or available at the library, printed as a hand-out for use at home or in-library use.

• Users would be able to successfully use the online catalog to locate books and perform searches with ease.

Accessing the Library Cataloghttp://www.beaverlibraries.org/newbrighton.htm

In order to access the catalog, begin by clicking on the On-line Catalog icon.

The web address to reach the home page

Accessing the Online Catalog

Next, choose to Search.

Search Options

There are a variety of search options:

• Author• Title• Author/Title• Subject• Keyword• Call Number

Click on the search option that best fits your need – each will garner different results.

I’m going to choose to search by keyword.

The SearchI chose baking.

You can search the entire Beaver County collection or use the drop down menu to specify the library of your choice.

The Results: Entire Collection

You can see that searching the entire collection resulted in 171 matches, most of which are not located at the New Brighton Public Library.

But you could visit a neighboring library and check the book out with your card.

The Results: New BrightonNarrowing the search to the New Brighton Holdings reduced the results to 22.

Sorting OptionsThese results can be sorted by relevance, date, or title, by clicking on the appropriate link. You can see that the results default to sorted by relevance.

Results: What Do They Mean?

The heading shows the title of the book, publisher and date of publication.

The location of the book is shown, the call number and whether the book is available.

OptionsClicking on the call number will show a list of books nearby on the shelf, which lets you browse the library shelf without being there!

Additional OptionsYou can use the check boxes beside the relevant title to mark and save the record, which will allow you to print your list and take it to the library for ease.

Then choose whether you save the marked record or save on one page.

And More Options

Clicking on the title provides you a detailed description.

The Book Description

Clicking on show similar items will provide books similar to this entry.

Visit the Library

Once you locate the book(s) from the online catalog, we encourage you to visit us and are looking forward to helping you.

If …

• You have difficulty, please contact the library for additional assistance.

• The book you are looking for is checked out, please call the library, some times they are returned early; and we can contact you when it is returned.

• You have other questions, please stop in or call.