How To Find a Library Digital Presentation by: Mrs. J. Ziemba Library Media Specialist St. Lucie School District

Internet Address SELECT Your School Library Bookmark Your Library Link

Our Homepage has loads of free resources for SCROLL Down

GALE & Kids Infobits Passcode = student Grolier & World Book Username = stlucie Password = reads See Your Librarian to learn more about these resources!

SELECT Catalog tab to start your search

BASIC SEARCH Keyword Subject Title

I want to find books about Baseball.

Now The Search Begins! Let’s Search by Keyword KEYWORD Option searches all titles, authors, series, and notes for your search term. This search option will provide the most results. baseball

225 results with the keyword “baseball”

Here are 3 of the 225 results. Let’s look at the information about the first title. TITLE CALL NUMBER This is the location of the book in the library

Here you see how many copies the library owns and if they are available Now!

Let’s compare Keyword to Subject Searches Now Search by Subject SUBJECT Option searches all subject fields in the title records. baseball

205 results with the Subject search for “baseball” Remember our Keyword Search gave us 225 results?

I want this one!

Latino Legends: Hispanics in major league baseball B SILVERS

NOW, I want to find the title Guinness book of world records

Title Search Now let’s try a Title Search Title Option searches all titles by that exact name or partial name. Guinness book of world records

Let’s Browse Titles to see a list of titles closest to this search term.

Yes, this is the one!

1 copy is available! The Summary gives a few details about the title. CALL NUMBER: This is the location of the book on the shelf!

GUINNESS BOOK OF WORLD RECORDS GUI LATINO LEGENDS B SILVERS