Saturday, March 26, 2011

Need help with Library displays?

Check out Flashlight Worthy, a website that contains over 400 lists of handpicked book recommendations on hundreds of topics.

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Coming-of-Age Novels That Rocked My World
Literary Pen Pals -- Books of Letters
Run, Zombies Ahead! Books if You Love the Undead, or Are the Undead
What New Yorkers Read on the Subway
Picture Books with African-American Protagonists

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Thursday, March 10, 2011

Searching Tips

A few tips on searching in Sirsi Workflows:

-Substitution: Use the ? symbol to substitute a missing character. For example: “wom?n” will pull “woman” or “women.” The same goes for user searches such as “Darr?n” will pull “Darren” or “Darrin”

-Truncation: The $ symbol is used to truncate search terms. When truncated words produce too many variations, a partial list is retrieved. For example, “Lil$” will pull up “Lily” or “Lili” or “Lilie”