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FINDING BOOKS, JOURNALS AND MORE IN THE LIBRARY

Use the catalogue to search for books, journals, theses, films etc. at the University of Warwick library.

  • Use the Location and Classmark displays to determine where in the Library an item is located, at what classmark it is shelved, what type of loan type and whether it is available.
    Item display example
  • Available items are checked out using self-issue machines and returned at the two return machines on Floor 1 of the main library.

STATUS tells you if the book is available or checked out. eg.:

DUE + date the item is checked out until this date
AVAILABLE the book can be checked out
LIB USE ONLY the book may only be used in the library
ON HOLDSHELF the item is on hold for another patron
  • Connect to online resources such as e-journals and e-books via the links provided in the full catalogue record. eg.

journal link example

  • Access full-text journal articles that the Library holds or has online access to by searching for the title of the journal (eg. journal of algebra). If the Library does not hold a print journal or subscribe to e-journal content then Warwick staff and students may use the Library's Document Supply service to obtain photocopies of articles. To discover journal articles directly you need to search Encore, Google Scholar or individual databases.

 

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EXPORTING RECORDS

You can export records from your Bag, My Lists and Reading History.

Save to your Bag:

  • From your page of search results, mark the items you wish to export by clicking on the check box to the left of each item.
  • Click on the Add Marked to Bag button before moving on to a new page. Alternatively click on the Add All on Page button.
  • You can continue to add items from other searches.
  • To view and to export, click the View Bag button.

NOTE: The Bag is just temporary storage (per browser session). You may want to consider saving into My Lists which are kept in My Library Account for as long as you want them.

Export from your Bag, My Lists, and Reading History

  • From View Bag, the My List you want to export, or from your Reading History - click Export List.
  • First decide on Format of List.
    • Choose Full Display or Brief Display if you want to email or download the records. Brief Display will give you Author, Title, Imprint (Publication).
    • Choose EndNote if you want to save the records to your computer and then import into EndNote.
  • Send list of records to either of:
    • E-mail
    • Screen (say, if you want to copy and paste into Word)
    • Local Disk (and save to your computer as a text file. You must do this if you them want to import an EndNote file into EndNote)

Exporting from catalogue and importing into EndNote

Getting references from the Library catalogue into your Endnote Web account is a two stage process:

  1. Go to the list in View Bag, My Lists or Reading History that you want to export.
  2. Click Export List and set the following:
    • Format of List to EndNote/RefWorks
    • Send List To to Local Disk, saving the file to your computer (it is helpful to create an Endnote folder)
  3. Login to your EndNote Web account and import this file from your computer into your EndNote Web account as follows:
    • Click on Import References in Collect
    • Next to File browse to the file you have just saved
    • Under Filter select the option Endnote Import
    • Under To select the group you want to send references to and click on Import. Further help is available on the Library website EndNoteWeb page.

 

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FINES AND CHARGES PAYMENT

Viewing and paying fines/charges:

  1. Log into your My Library account.
  2. Click on the Unpaid Fines and Bills link.
  3. Click on Pay Online button - this opens a new window where you may be required to login again. Follow instructions,

Notes:

  • Current fines accruing on an overdue book will also show in the Status column when viewing 'Items currently checked out'.
  • Fines cannot be paid on the Catalogue only computers in the Library.

 

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MOBILE ACCESS FOR SMARTPHONES

Our portable catalogue for library users on-the-go, supports an expanding set of smartphones and tablets including iPhone, Blackberry Storm, Palm Pre, devices running Google's Android OS, and also ipod touch and ipad.

  • Functionality : Search with a simplified search interface -- perform renewals and check holds via My Account -- full connectivity to e-books, e-journals and databases is available.
  • Access: Point your browser to mobile Library catalogue at http://m.lib.warwick.ac.uk/. Smartphone users going to the standard Library catalogue web address of http://webpac.warwick.ac.uk/ will be automatically redirected to the mobile version of the Library catalogue.
  • The full interface has a link to 'Mobile' at the top right.

Note:

1. If you prefer to use the full interface of the Library catalogue in your phone, tablet or mobile, rather than the simplified mobile version, then click on the 'Full Interface' link in the mobile catalogue.

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MY LIBRARY ACCOUNT (What is it?)

Login to My Library Account for your own personal space.

  • University staff and students login with your Warwick login. For your own security, remember to logout when you have finished.
  • Other Library members who do not have a Warwick login please use your 'Library number/PIN' to login (eg. External borrowers, Warwick Graduates, Retired Staff).

My Library Account enables you to:

  1. View and manage your loans, fines, holds, lists, preferred searches/email alerts and reading history
  2. In particular you can renew loans, pay fines, check whether a hold is ready for pickup and create email alerts.

 

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MY LISTS (a record of items of interest)

You can keep a record of items in the catalogue that interest you as you go along, for future reference. When you see something interesting add it to one of your lists and it will be kept there for you in 'My Library Record'. As you search the catalogue, mark record(s) of interest and click on 'Add Marked to My Lists' - you will be asked to login if you're not logged in already.

Follow these instructions when you've marked a record for your List and clicked on 'Add Marked to My List':

  1. Log in to 'My Library Record'.
  2. You are invited to 'Save Records to a List'. You 'Create a New List' or choose a List you have already created.
  3. If you're creating a new list, you need to give it a List Name and you can give it a Description. 'Submit' your choices then 'Return to Your Record'. If you want to add it to one of your existing lists, choose the List and click on 'Submit'.
  4. When you have returned to your record (click on 'Return to Your Record'), click on My Lists to see all of your lists.
  5. Any time that you log in to 'My Library Record', you can click the 'My Lists' button to see all your Lists. You can sort your lists by clicking on Name, Description or Date added.
  6. Click on a List Name to view the list. Click on a title to see the full catalogue record.
  7. You can manage your List(s) by changing its name or description, marking and deleting records from the List, removing duplicates, sorting the List, exporting it (you choose the format) so that it becomes the basis for a reading list held elsewhere, marking and moving records to another one of your Lists, or deleting it completely. Just click on the appropriate box to choose what you want to do.

 

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QR CODES

While using the Library catalogue, you may come across images like this -->qr code example

This is a QR code (short for Quick Response). Every record in the catalogue has one; photographing it with your smartphone will open up the item's record page on your phone, so you won't have to write down the location and classmark. Your QR reader will save these scanned records giving you a record of these items on your smartphone.

Not all smartphones have native support for scanning QR codes, but most phones have app options which can be easily installed freely. Search online with the keywords 'QR Code Reader' and the make and model of your phone. Phones running Google Android and modern Nokia handsets have the QR code reader built-in.
Be aware of the charges for downloading data if you are accessing online content through your mobile phone service provider network.

 

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READING HISTORY

Login to 'My Library Account' to view your 'Reading History' - a history of all the items you have checked out.

To opt out of this service at any time then click the 'Opt Out' button. This deletes all items in your reading history. At a later date you may 'Opt In' to start up your reading history from a fresh beginning.

 

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RENEWING

Library cardholders may renew their own materials online. All material may be renewed except for materials with reserves and materials on which you owe fines.

How to:

  1. Log in to your My Millennium Account.
  2. Click the 'Items currently checked out' if it is not the default view
  3. Select the materials you want to renew by checking the boxes in the RENEW column and then click the Renew Selected button. If you want to renew everything, click the Renew ALL button.
  4. If you cannot renew items, a message will appear on the screen. If you are successful, a new due date will appear in the "STATUS" column. Always check the STATUS column for information on the success or failure of your renewal.

 

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Click & Collect

Order up to 10 items for collection from the Library using the Click & Collect service. You will receive an email when your items are ready to collect. Available items take up to 48 hours. Items on loan will be ready when they are returned by the current borrower.

  1. Click on Click & Collect and then login to My Library Account.
  2. Fill in any required information and click Submit.
    • At this stage if this is a multi volume work you will be offered a form to select one of the volumes.
  3. You will receive immediate confirmation that your request has been accepted.
  4. We will send a notice by email when the requested copy is ready for pickup.You may check the status of your current requests in My Library Account.
  5. Collect requests from the Click & Collect shelving on Floor 1 of the Main Library.

Requesting multi volume works

The system will not allow you to request more than one volume of a multi volume work - You may ask library staff to overide the system and place requests on more than one volume of a multi volume work.

 

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REVIEWS (ADD TO CATALOGUE RECORD)

Members of the library may add a review to a catalogue record.

  • In a full catalogue record click on the Add a reviewicon and login.
  • Give your review a headline, type in your review and submit.
  • Your review will not show until after it is approved by the Library (during next working day)
  • You may view or delete your reviews in My Reviews - part of 'My Library Account'.

 

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PREFERRED SEARCHES & EMAIL ALERTS

When you are logged in and search Classic Catalogue there is a Save as a preferred search button offered to the right of the search box. This enables you to rerun a search at the click of a button and to set up email alerts.

How to save a preferred search and set up an email alert:

  1. Log in to your My Library Account.
  2. Click on the New Search button and do a search.
  3. When your results are displayed, click the button marked Save as preferred search.
  4. Check the Mark for Email box and you get an email alert when new items are added to the library collection that match your preferred search. The email alerts are generated once a week on monday mornings. Be sure that your patron record information includes your current email address.
  5. The next time that you log in to your My Millennium Account, you can click the Preferred Searches button to see a list of your saved searches.

 

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SEARCH TIPS (Keyword)

Multiple Words

The more words you type, the more specific is your search and the fewer hits you will get (System retrieves records that contain all words anywhere in record).

Examples

climate (broad search ~1000 hits)
climate change tourism (specific search ~10 hits)
business research hussey (1 hit - to find a specific known book easily type some words from the title and an author surname)
brand strategy (~50 hits)
brand strateg* (using a word stem broadens out search to ~100 hits)

Phrase Searches

Search for complete phrases by enclosing them in quotation marks. Words enclosed in double quotes will appear together in all results exactly as typed.

Examples

"just in time"
"process improvement"
"a to z of medical writing"

Wildcards

Words may be right-hand truncated using an asterisk * in place of other characters. You may use ? to replace a single character anywhere within a word. Note: the system does not automatically look for plurals so these wildcards can be a useful way of including plurals.

Examples

ethic* (finds ethic, ethics, ethical...)
wom?n (finds woman or women)
environment* polic*

Search Operators (Classic Catalogue only)

The boolean operators 'and', 'or', 'and not' allow you to construct your query and indicate the relationships between your search terms. By default, ie. if you do not use an operator, an 'and'-relationship between the terms is established. Use brackets when you are constucting a complex search.

 

Examples

stocks or bonds
music and (blues or jazz)
management after cardiac

Field Limits

Field limits allow you to do keyword searching specifically in title, author and subject fields rather than anywhere.

  • a: (Search only author fields) eg. a:greene
  • t: (Search only title fields) eg. t:cities
  • d: (Search only subject fields) eg. d:ecology

You may use Advanced Keyword search as an alternative to typing these field limits.

Location, Material Type and Language Limits

Select these as needed in Advanced Keyword Search or Modify Search. Multiple limits within one box may be selected by holding down the CTRL key as you click (eg. Print material and Video/DVD can both be selected).

Grouping

Keyword search results are grouped by relevance to bring the most likely titles to the top of the list (strongly weighted towards words occurring in the title). Each group represents a similar level of relevance and results are sorted within the group by date or title. If you use boolean operators to form a complex query then the results are not displayed in relevance groups.

Most relevant Most relevant titles 

Highly relevant Highly relevant titles 

Very relevant Very relevant titles 

Relevant Relevant titles 

Other relevant Other relevant titles 

While keyword results are initially displayed in relevance order by default, you may easily switch to sorting by date or title by using the 'sorted by relevance | date | title' menu at the top of the result set.

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