How To Find a Book

@The LibraryDigital Presentation by: Mrs. J. Ziemba

Library Media Specialist

St. Lucie School District

Internet Address http://destiny SELECT Your

School Library

BookmarkYour

LibraryLink

Our Homepage has loads of free resources for

SCROLLDown

GALE & Kids InfobitsPasscode = student

Grolier & World BookUsername = stluciePassword = reads

See Your Librarian to learn more about these resources!

SELECT Catalog tab to start

your search

BASIC SEARCH

Keyword

Subject

Title

I want to find books about

Baseball.

Now The Search Begins!

Let’s Search by

Keyword

KEYWORD Option searches all titles, authors, series, and notes for your search term. This search option will provide the most results.

baseball

225 results with the keyword “baseball”

Here are 3 of the 225 results. Let’s look at the information about the first title.

TITLE

CALL NUMBERThis is the location of the book in the library

Here you see how many copies the library owns and if they are available Now!

Let’s compare Keyword to Subject Searches

Now Search bySubject

SUBJECT Option searches all subject fields in the title records.

baseball

205 results with the Subject search for “baseball”

Remember our Keyword Search gave us 225 results?

I want this one!

Latino Legends: Hispanics in major league baseball

B

SILVERS

NOW, I want to find the title

Guinness book of world records

Title Search

Now let’s try a Title Search

Title Option searches all titles by that exact name or partial name.

Guinness book of world records

Let’s Browse Titles to see a list of titles closest to this search term.

Yes, this is the one!

1 copy is available!

The Summary gives a few details about the title.

CALL NUMBER: This is the location of the book

on the shelf!

GUINNESS BOOK OF WORLD RECORDS

031.02

GUI

LATINO

LEGENDS BSILVERS