1. Using the O.P.A.C.

2. What is an O.P.A.C.?
Online
Public
Access
Catalog

3. Why is the O.P.A.C important to me?
It is a list of every item in the library collection
It makes accessing the library materials easier for students and teachers.

4. Let’s Get Started! Follow along and complete the search on your computer as the program proceeds.

5. Step 1: Click on the Mozilla icon on the Desktop Step 2: Along the top bar click on Library Search.

6. This screen will open.

7. There are many ways to search for materials.
Keyword
Title
Author
Subject
Power Search
Visual Search

8. Step 3 :Choose a search type

9. Library Search

10. Use the Library Search to search by Keyword, Title, Author or Subject

11. Let’s Perform a Keyword Search for George Washington
Let’s Perform a Keyword Search for George Washington. Type George Washington in the Find box, then click on Keyword.

12. Here are the results from our Keyword “George Washington” search.
Availability
Call number
Pages of Results
Title of Book – you can click here for
More details on the book.

13. Let’s Perform a Title Search for George Washington
Let’s Perform a Title Search for George Washington. Type George Washington in the Find box, then click on Title.

14. Here are the results from our Title “George Washington” search
Here are the results from our Title “George Washington” search. These books all have “George Washington” in the Title.
Call number
Availability
Title of Book – you can click here for more
Details on the book.

15. Let’s Perform an Author Search for Shel Silverstein
Let’s Perform an Author Search for Shel Silverstein. Type Shel Silverstein in the Find box, then click on Author.

16. Here are the results from our Author “Shel Silverstein” search
Here are the results from our Author “Shel Silverstein” search. These books are all by Shel Silverstein.
Call number
Availability
Title of Book – you can click here for more
Details on the book.

17. Let’s Perform a Subject Search for Dogs
Let’s Perform a Subject Search for Dogs. Type Dogs in the Find box, then click on Subject.

18. Here are the results from our Subject “Dogs” search
Here are the results from our Subject “Dogs” search. These books are all about Dogs.
Call number
Availability
Title of Book – you can click here for more
Details on the book.

19. A Power Search can be used when you want to be very specific
A Power Search can be used when you want to be very specific. This is an example of a Power Search for Dog, Cat, and Lion. It resulted in the one book in the collection with those three tags.

20. A Visual Search is a great student introduction to searching for materials in the collection. To begin a Visual Search click on Visual Search on the Library Search Home Screen.

21. A Visual Search is a great student introduction to searching for materials in the collection. To begin a Visual Search click on Visual Search on the Library Search home page.

22. The Visual Search page will open
The Visual Search page will open. Users can click on any category of interest.

23. Let’s do a Visual Search for Animals
Let’s do a Visual Search for Animals. Click on the Animals picture on the Visual Search page.

24. There are many categories of animals
There are many categories of animals. Let’s click on Bears to see the available materials.

25. Here are the results from our Visual Search for Bears
Here are the results from our Visual Search for Bears. These books all have a Bears tag.
Call number
Availability
Title of Book – you can click here for more
Details on the book.

26. Let’s click on the title The Three Bears to get more details about the book. You can click on any title to get more information about any book in the collection.
Title of Book – you can click here for more
Details on the book.

27. Here are the title details for The Three Bears.
Call number
Title, Author, Illustrator.
Availability
Brief description
Other topics
that might be
Of interest.

28. Thanks for participating today
Thanks for participating today. Hopefully you now have a better understanding of how to use our O.P.A.C. Please complete this quick survey to give us feedback on the program. Also if you have any questions or suggestions be sure to let us know!