Transcript mirlyn - Personal - University of Michigan

Using the NEW MIRLYN
Documents Center
University of Michigan
October 2004
MIRLYN
http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/
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Search Ann Arbor
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Find Articles
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Books, Periodicals, and Electronic Materials in Library
System, Bentley and Clements
Periodical Indexes
Find Other Library Catalogs
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Catalogs of Independent Campus and Big 10 Libraries,
EMU, Ann Arbor District, Business Administration,
Law
MIRLYN Catalogs
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MIRLYN Signon
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GUEST Signon is automatic.
VALIDATED Signon at first chance for:
Indexes, recalls, renewals, remote retrieval
Links to campus-licensed web products, saving searches
MIRLYN – Two Major Searches
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BASIC – browse or keyword;
ADVANCED – keyword in multiple fields (e.g. author, title)
MIRLYN – Basic Search
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Browse or keyword: author, title, subject, entire record, journal, call
number
MIRLYN – Basic Search
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Browse Title
MIRLYN – Basic Search
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Click on Title for Search Result
MIRLYN – Basic Search
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Search results list location and call number. Click on Location
for circulation and retrieval information.
MIRLYN – Basic Search
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If book is in Buhr Storage or North Campus, you can
request delivery to the Graduate Library
Retrieving Books
http://mirlyn.web.lib.umich.edu
For the most part, you want to come to the library to
retrieve the book in person
Graduate Library Stacks Directory
http://www.lib.umich.edu/navigator/gradstax.html
Circulation Period
http://www.lib.umich.edu/circ/
Length of circulation varies with library
Undergraduate = three weeks for everyone
Graduate = eight weeks if graduate student
semester if faculty or T.A.
three weeks if undergraduate
Books can be recalled after three weeks regardless
of initial circulation period
MIRLYN Subject Searching
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Subjects Use Library of Congress Subject Headings
(Controlled vocabulary regardless of title)
MIRLYN Subject Searching
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LC Subject Country and Form Subdivisions
Country Subject Subdivisions
United States--Foreign Relations
China--Foreign Relations
Elections--Yugoslavia
Elections--United States
Form Subdivisions
Elections--Bibliography
Politicians -Biography
Economics--Dictionaries
MIRLYN – Basic Search
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Typical Library of Congress subject browse search
MIRLYN – Basic Search
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Results provide a browsable list with all subject or geographic
subdivisions
MIRLYN – Modifying Search
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Default list is alphabetically by title
You can sort the list (e.g. by date, format, author)
Use MODIFY to limit by language
MIRLYN – Modifying Search
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Use Modify Search to Only List English-language Titles
MIRLYN – Printing
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To print, save, or e-mail an INDIVIDUAL record, use your
web browser or click on Print/Export/E-Mail button
MIRLYN – Printing
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To print, save, or e-mail search a list of results, either
SELECT ALL (all boxes checked) or CHECK
INDIVIDUAL BOXES and add to BASKET
MIRLYN – Printing
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VIEW THE BASKET
MIRLYN – Printing
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In the VIEW BASKET mode, click on the
Print/Export/Email button
MIRLYN – Printing
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Choose RECORD
format;
then PRINT, SAVE, or
EMAIL.
Printing or saving with
web browser doesn’t
always work well.
MIRLYN – Basket
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You can add NEW search results to the Basket
To see what’s in the basket, click on the blue BASKET at the
top
MIRLYN – Basket v. My Shelf
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Baskets for all searches can be printed or exported for current
session only
You can save individual titles in baskets to MY SHELF for
subsequent logons, the call numbers will NOT be saved.
MIRLYN – Saved Searches
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Your searches are automatically saved during your session.
Click on PREVIOUS SEARCHES to see them.
MIRLYN – Saved Searches
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Searches in one session can be combined (and OR or)
They can be saved permanently through ADD TO MY SAVED
SEARCHES.
MIRLYN Keyword Searching
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Uses Boolean Logic
MIRLYN Keyword Searching
http://mirlyn.web.lib.umich.edu
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/training/boolean.pdf
MIRLYN – Keyword Searching
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Keyword searching available in Basic Search for ONE field: all, author,
title, subject, or journal name.
MIRLYN – Keyword Searching
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KEYWORD PROTOCOLS:
Phrases in quotation marks:
AND, OR, NOT
Truncation as * or ?
Within a few words: !
“gender gap”
russia not soviet
wom*n or wom?n
cat? Or cat*
“security council”
!5 resolution
MIRLYN – Keyword Searching
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“gender gap” is phrase; and = operator; vot* is truncated
MIRLYN – Keyword Searching
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Blair !5 Bush means blair within 5 words of Bush
MIRLYN – Keyword Searching
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Keyword (vietnam) and author (ellsberg) would identify titles
when you don’t exactly remember; use resulting subject
headings in record for similar materials
MIRLYN – Format Symbols
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Symbols in search results stand for format, e.g. book, journal,
microform, CD-ROM, internet; internet items are hot-linked
MIRLYN – My Account
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Includes books checked out to you, recalls, holds, fines;
allow you to renew books