04.03.01 Title – Begins with and Contains Search

Some questions for the researchers…

  • What is Title?
  • Do all books have a Title?
  • What about Videos, Kits, CDs, Websites, Magazines, Newspapers, Games, etc?
  • What is the Title of this book? (With a book in hand…)
  • Can a book have more than one Title?
  • What is a Sub-Title? (Try to find a book with a sub-title… Teacher Reference is an easy place to find an example)
  • Is this a good Title for this book? Why?
  • If you wrote this book, would you give it a different Title? Why?
  • What is the difference between a Begins with and a Contains search?
  • How would you find this resource using a Title Begins with search?
  • How could you find this resource with a Title Contains search?
  • How do you do a Begins with / Contains search using the computer?
  • What about in the Junior Catalogue search (if you have it installed!)
  • What about in the Web Catalogue?
  • Do you think you could show Mum and Dad how to look up some Titles in the Web Catalogue from home if they would like to see if we have a book?

Doing a Title Begins with Search…

  1. Go into the Catalogue (CMEPlus).
  2. Click on the Title and Other Searches tab.
  3. Type in a few letters of the Title you are looking for.
  4. Click the Title Begins button.

Play around with the results until you end up printing a list of the results, looking at the details screen to see if the item is available or not.

Doing a Title Contains Search…

  1. Go into the Catalogue (CMEPlus).
  2. Click on the Title and Other Searches tab.
  3. Type in a few letters of a word you think is in the Title of the item you want to find.
  4. Click the Title Contains button.
  • Again, play around with the results until you end up printing a list of the results, or looking at the details screen to see if the item is available or not.
  • Notice there will be some strange entries if you used a few letters that could be the start of a word or in the middle of a bigger word!

 

See Using the Results Screen (Resource Lists) for more details about manipulating the list of resources that appears as a result of your search…

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