UNC-Chapel Hill Online Catalog Searching
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 . Simply click on it.

To access the online catalog via the World Wide Web

• 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

There are three separate search modes:

• 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

Author/Title/Subject Searching

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.

Keyword Searching the best way to find scores and sound recordings

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.

Number Searching^* (note spacing)

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.

Points to Keep in Mind

• 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

Saving Your Search

• 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