Archbishop Spalding High School Library Media Center

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Archbishop Spalding High School Library Media
Center

• presents

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OPAC
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On-line Public Access Catalog
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Searches

• Authors
• Subjects
• Titles
• Keywords

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Like this

• OPAC

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Advanced Search Methods

• Wildcards
• Boolean Operators
• Truncation

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Wildcards are used to Expand Searches
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? Replaces an character with a character

• Wom?n gives you both
• Woman Women

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Like this

• OPAC

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Boolean Operators

• AND
• OR
• NOT

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Use to Expand or Limit Searches
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In OPAC called Power Search
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Like this

• OPAC

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Truncation lets you search by root
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lets you truncate the root myth

• for searching
• myths, mythology, mythological, etc.

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Like this

• OPAC

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The Bookbag

• lets you print out bibliographies.

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OPAC lets you know if an item is in or out of
the LMC
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NOWREVIEW
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On-line Public Access Catalog
OPAC
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Advanced Search Methods

• Wildcards
• Boolean Operators
• Truncation

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? Replaces an character with a character

• M?n gives you both
• Woman Women

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lets you truncate the root myth

• for searching
• myths, mythology, mythological, etc.

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Now explore