Searching OCLC Assignment

LIS 605

Spring 2012

Dr. donna Bair-Mundy

Hulcr, Jiri. 2013. Xyleborini of New Guinea, a taxonomic monograph (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae). Annapolis, MD : Entomological Society of America

xyl,of,ne,g

Derived key title search:

3,2,2,1

Derived key title search:

Hulcr, Jiri. 2013. Xyleborini of New Guinea, a taxonomic monograph (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae). Annapolis, MD : Entomological Society of America

Pirsig, Robert M. 1974. Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance : an inquiry into values. New York: Morrow.

zen,an,th,a

Pirsig, Robert M. 1974. Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance : an inquiry into values. New York: Morrow.

Pirsig, Robert M. 1974. Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance : an inquiry into values. New York: Morrow.

Pirsig, Robert M. 1974. Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance : an inquiry into values. New York: Morrow.

Brown, Dan. 2004. The Da Vinci code. New York : Doubleday. (Special illustrated ed., 1st ed.)

da,vi,co,Note: Nothing after third comma

da,vi,co,

da,vi,co,

Brown, Dan. 2004. The Da Vinci code. New York : Doubleday. (Special illustrated ed., 1st ed.)

da,vi,co,

Brown, Dan. 2004. The Da Vinci code. New York : Doubleday. (Special illustrated ed., 1st ed.)

Brown, Dan. 2004. The Da Vinci code. New York : Doubleday. (Special illustrated ed., 1st ed.)

da,vi,co,

British Standards Institution. 1963. Xylenes. British Standards Institution.

xyl,,,Note: Still need 3

commas

Uris, Leon. 1958. Exodus. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday.

exo,,,Would retrieve too many records

uris,exodName/title search

Uris, Leon. 1958. Exodus. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday.

uris,exod

Uris, Leon. 1958. Exodus. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday.

uris,exod

SeriesIndex

Multiple indexes to main file

Bibliographicrecords

ISBNIndex

BrowseTitle

Index

AuthorIndex

Call no.Index

SubjectIndex

Rowling, J.K. 1999. Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban. New York: Arthur A. Levine Books.

ti:harry potter prisoner azkaban

tiTitle index

:Key word search

words to search on

Command-line keyword search:

Rowling, J.K. 1999. Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban. New York: Arthur A. Levine Books.

ti:harry potter prisoner azkaban

Command-line keyword search:

Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban in Hungarian

ti:harry potter prisoner azkaban and la:hun

Boolean operator language

index

Code for Hungarian

Combining fields using Boolean:

Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban in Hungarianti:harry potter prisoner azkaban and la:hun

Combining fields using Boolean:

Uniform title

Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban in Hungarian

ti:harry potter prisoner azkaban and la:hun

Finding a language code

MARC Code List for Languages

MARC language codes

MARC language code for Hungarian

Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban. In Chinese.

ti:harry potter prisoner azkaban and la:chi

Boolean operator language

index

Code for Chinese

Crichton, Michael. 1969. The Andromeda strain. New York : Knopf.

ti=androm#da strain

tiTitle index

=Phrase search

Words in sequence

#Single-

character wildcard

Command-line phrase search:

Gone with the wind in Japanese

gon,wi,th,w la:jpn

Combining derived-key and keyword searches:

The assignment:1. Find your records in OCLC

245 10 Harry Potter and the goblet of fire / $c by J.K. Rowling ; illustrations by Mary GrandPre.

250 1st American ed.

260 New York : $b Arthur A. Levine Books, $c c2000.

240 1 0 Harry Potter and the goblet of fire. $l Chinese.

245 1 0 Hali Bote yu huo yan bei / $c J.K. Luolin zhu; Ma Aixin yi.

260 Beijing : $b Ren min wen xue chu ban she, $c 2001.

Light pink: Easy Lavender: A bit more interesting

The assignment:

2. Write down the OCLCnumber

3. Turn in for each record:Colored sheet with:

Your nameOCLC number

OCLC Searching Exercise

OCLC 47702921 Name Belinda Beststudent

…245 1 0 Harry Potter and the goblet of fire

Bring to class next class session