how to use opac 1. how to find books? 2 what is opac? 3
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How To Use OPAC
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What is OPAC?
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• An acronym for:
Online Public Access Catalogue
• A database used for searching books.
• Also used for checking your library account, renewal of books and make reservation if the book is on loan.
What is OPAC?
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You can access OPAC at http://library.utar.edu.my
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What can be done by OPAC ?
Details of books
Location of books
Status of the books
Account information
Reserve books
Renew books
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How to locate items
using OPAC ?
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Browse Search - By Title
To see if the material is in the library, you may select “Title” search and enter the exact title. Do not key in the articles ‘a’, ‘an’ and ‘the’ if they
appear in the beginning of the title.
Select Title
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Browse Search - By Author
Select Author
Or, you may select “Author” search.
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“Subject” search allows you to search for same materials in particular subject area in the library, e.g. “communication”
Select Subject
Browse Search - By Subject
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If you know the “Call Number”, you may use “Call Number” search.
Select Call Number
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Browse Search - By Call Number
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After you have identified the title you want, e.g. “Seven habits of highly effective people”, you will see the “Title Search Screen” as shown
above.
Viewing Records
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Click “item” to view the location(s)
of the book.
Click the title to find out more information.
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Viewing Records
Check the “location” of the items.
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Viewing Records
If the item is “Available” in your faculty library, you may take down the “Call Number” and get it from the shelf.
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Viewing Records
What is Call Number ?
Each book in the library has a unique “call number”. A “call number” is like an address: it tells us where the book is located in the library.
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Viewing Records: Other Information
Available copies
On hold copies
Number of copies checked out
Number of people requested
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If you cannot remember the full title of the book, you may do a “Keyword” search, for example, “seven habits people”, then select
“title”.
Keyword Search – Using “AND”
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Keyword Search – Using “AND”
OR, If you can remember the name of the “author” and a few words of the “title”, you may do a “combination” of “author” and “title” search.
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Use “OR” to broader a search, for example, “html” OR “xhtml”, you will get books on both “html” OR “xhtml”.
Keyword Search – Using “OR”
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You may use “NOT” to filter out those titles that you don’t want, for example, “html” NOT “xhtml”, you will get books on “html” but not
“xhtml”.
Keyword Search – Using “NOT”
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“Anywhere” search allows you to search for materials found in Title, Author and Subject fields.
SelectAnywhere search
Keyword Search – Using “Anywhere”
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For further information, please contact the library staff on duty from any of our libraries
during office hours or email to [email protected]
23Last Updated Jun 2011