These video lessons are designed to introduce the staff of the Rockford Public Schools to the different ways the electronic card catalog can be searched for materials in all of our district libraries.
Please
note: As
you view a lesson it may be helpful to have a second computer session open
to the electronic catalog. That way the video lesson can be paused at certain
points and the procedure can be practiced on the actual electronic catalog.
| Introduction to the Gateway Electronic Card Catalog System | 2:19 |
| Title - How to locate a work by its title | 1:34 |
| Author - How to search for all holdings by a given author | 1:14 |
| Keyword - How to conduct a broad search using keywords found in any area of a title's record. | 4:27 |
| Subject Keyword - How to use keywords to search the subject field only | 3:34 |
| Subject Headings - How to conduct a specific search by specified subject headings only | 1:28 |
| Boolean - How to search using a strategy of inclusion, exclusion, and matching | 3:53 |
| Series - How to list complete series of titles | 2:10 |
| Call Number - How to search for works by Dewey Decimal Call Numbers | 1:34 |