UNC-Chapel Hill Libraries Catalog

Our goal for the new catalog is to provide more intuitive searching and a better browsing experience. Many of the features are what you might find as common place on the Internet, such as tabbed navigation, sorting, built-in spell correction, and "Did You Mean..." Other features include:

• A new document delivery service, Carolina Blu.
• Enriched content including book covers, Tables of Contents, and summaries.
• Integration with Search TRLN, which allows you to expand your search to include materials from other Triangle research libraries.

Course reserves are not included in this version of the catalog. You can search our Classic catalog for course reserves.

Yes, you can still access the classic version of the catalog from the University Libraries home page.

The basic search auomatically searches for all the words that you enter across the most common fields, including author, title, and subject. If you need to specify that your search terms appear in a specific field such as author or title, use the Advanced Search tab.

The new catalog offers what is called "Guided Navigation." Simply put, the left side offers options that help to narrow your search results more easily. The left side options are generated from the results that match your search. Any options you select are then listed at the top of your search results. You can remove any of your criteria at any time of your search by clicking on the small red box next to the word or phrase.

The system automatically searches for all the words that you enter. No need to use AND. If you need to do a Boolean search using AND, OR, and NOT, go to the Advanced Search tab, where you will find a Boolean search field at the bottom.

The catalog automatically searches for the plural forms of nouns, but it is not currently possible to truncate your search terms or use wildcards. You can use the Boolean search field on the bottom of the Advanced Search page to look for variant forms of a word, such as color OR colour.

For catalog searches that include diacritical marks in titles, keywords, or subject headings, we recommend that you choose the Classic Catalog from the new interface and perform your searches there, omitting diacritics. In the new catalog, searching without diacritics may cause you to miss items that are present in the system with diacritics.

Include the apostrophe in your search term. For example, to search for the book title Ain't my America, search the title as-is and do not drop the apostrophe.

Sorting by "Most Popular" returns your search results based on the number of times that items have been checked out from the UNC Libraries. Titles that have been checked out the most often will be listed first.

Currently, you can export individual citations to RefWorks, and you can text call numbers to your cell phone. Other export features, including Endnote and Zotero compatibility, are slated for future development. A "shopping cart" feature, which will allow you to tag multiple records for saving/exporting in batches, is also in the works.

There is a quick direct export option for single catalog records built into the catalog. You can find it on each individual record's screen; it is not on the list of results. However, if your records contains diacritical marks (such as accents), a separate procedure for importing MARC records from the catalog will result in cleaner RefWorks data. Please see our detailed guide to importing MARC records from the UNC-Chapel Hill Beta Catalog.

Immediate help is available during most Davis Library Reference Department hours by clicking on the on the Have a Question? Chat Now button. You can also visit Davis Reference in person. If you prefer to call, the Davis Reference phone number is 919-962-1151. You can also click on the Feedback link at the top of the page to send an e-mail anytime.

All UNC Chapel Hill faculty members, currently enrolled graduate and undergraduate students, and staff can use the campus delivery service, however service options may vary depending on your affiliation.