Search Screen
What is the first field you can search by in the library catalog?
Keyword
What is the color of the circle if the book is in the library at this moment?
Green
How do you find further detail or information about a book?
You click on the title or cover of the book.
How do you access the library catalog?
What is the second field you can search by in the library catalog?
Title
What does the number inside the colored circle mean?
It is the number of copies of that book still in the library.
True or False. I can find where the book was published from the book detail page.
True.
True or False. You can click on the pictures of the books shown at the top of the search results page to see similar titles to the ones you have looked at.
True.
What is the third field you can search by in the library catalog?
Author
What happens when you click on an author's name?
It brings you to a list of other books by that author that the library has.
How do you get in line to borrow a book if someone already has it checked out?
Select the "Request" button under the book cover picture.
Why are some words highlighted on the search results page?
They are the words you entered into the search screen.
What can you click on to change or begin a different search?
The "Reset" button.
What does clicking on the blue words at the top of the screen do?
Changes the way the books are listed in the search results.
What happens if you click on the text under "Series Title"?
Other books in that series will come up.
What happens if you spell a word incorrectly in the search field?
The catalog will suggest the word that it thinks you are trying to spell. If you click on the link it will search by that new term for you.
What icon can you click to get to the more advanced search screen?
The airplane icon
How do you know how many books the search engine found that matched your query?
The number is listed at the top near the page navigation buttons.
What does clicking on a link under the "Subjects" subtitle do?
Provides you with a list of other books that have the same subject as the one you clicked on.
How do I see new items the library has just gotten in?
Select "Opals Home" and scroll down, a list is at the bottom of the page.