via the World Wide Web
The UNC-Chapel Hill library home page is http://www.lib.unc.edu/.To get to this page at anytime while using the computer terminal, click on the Home icon located at the top of the screen.
All blue, underlined text are hyperlinks that lead to either a search screen or additional information. Help information is also available wherever you see the
- Click on Shortcut to Online Catalog (Web Version)located in the center of the screen. This will send you directly to the search screen.
- You can also click on Telnet to former version to access the text-only version of the catalog
- Author/Title/Subject– use when you know the author/composer/performer, title or subject
- Keyword– use to combine names and phrases (names, titles, subjects)
- Number – use when you know the call number, ISBN, ISSN, etc. of an item
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Author, title and subject searching are all done from
the same screen. This screen defaults to a title search. To perform a
different search click in the circle located next to your choice and then
click in the text box to type. Use the author search to find
composers, performers, performing ensembles and editors.
From this screen you can also limit your search to a specific format (book, score, sound recording) and by a specific language. These are defaulted to all formats and any language respectively. To change them click on the arr ow located next to the text box.
Additional holdings – if the material you are looking for is not held in the music library click on additional holdings to find its location. This is also the case for items in music storage.
- Use field qualifiers to increase the accuracy and improve
response time of your search example:
| Search | Results |
|---|---|
| madrigals | yields 587 records |
| su madrigals italian | yields 288 records |
Go to the complete listof field qualifiers.
Truncation increases your search set by allowing for different forms of words
| Symbol | What It Does | Example Search | Results |
|---|---|---|---|
| ? | searches for all variations on a word stem | symphon? | lists records containing symphony, symphonies, symphonia, symphonie, etc. |
| # | searches for all possible solutions of the charater(s) replaced by the # | wom#n and theat## | lists all of the records that contain woman or women and theater or theatre (but not theaters) |
Combination Searching (Boolean operators)
Combining search terms using the Boolean operators AND, OR, NOT will improve your search results. This is the best way to locate sound recordings in the online catalog.
| Search | Results |
|---|---|
| au tallis scholars and compact | lists compact discs by the Tallis Scholars |
| au wolf hugo not sound | lists works by Wolf but not his sound recordings |
Go to KeywordHelp and scroll down to Combination Searching for more help.
| Search Type | Example | Results |
|---|---|---|
| Call Number | M452 | lists all string quartets |
| M289.H49op.115 1984 | retrieves Willy Hess's Suite Pittpresque: fur Klarinette und Bassetthorn, op.115 | |
| ML128.C58R43 1986 | retrieves Jo Rees-Davies' Bibliography of the Early Clarinet | |
| ISBN | 0385313772 | retrieves Mark Hertsgaard's A Day in the Life: the Music and Artistry of the Beatles |
*You can also search by ISSN,LCCN,OCLC# and reference number.
- Not all of the Music Library’s holdings are in the computer system at this time, so be sure to check the card catalogs if you don’t find what you are looking for.
- You don'’t have to worry about capitalization or punctuation (including umlauts)
- If one form of the word doesn’t produce the desired result try another form. For example:
| showboat or show boat |
| -or- |
| macdowell or mcdowell |
- You can print citations at the terminal located downstairs in the stacks
- You can download citations to a floppy disk by choosing save as from the file menu
- You can email the location of the citation by choosing mail document from the file menu
Revised 7/98
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This page was last updated Friday, January 13, 2006.
