to request a specific
copy. See Request
a specific copy of a title.When you click the title itself, the Availability or Full Display button, or a book jacket image for a title, you see more details about the title. A Hide Details button appears, and you can click the button if you want to hide the additional information.
You have many options for viewing and working with the title. See the following topics:
: MARC Record (Librarian’s View)
: Accessing Digital Collection Materials
: Purchase a title from a Web vendor
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Your library may display titles with local items highlighted in your search results. This is a quick way to tell whether your branch has a title.
You can also get detailed information about where copies of the title are located. Click Availability if the locations are not already listed. Since there may be several copies of a title in the library or the library system, there may be more than one entry in the list. Each entry is a separate item. The entries are organized first by location, then by collection at each location. The list may be quite long, and you may need to scroll the page to see all the entries. You can click the plus sign (+) to expand the listings for a location or collection, or click the minus sign (-) to hide them.
Note:
The Availability button
and availability information are not displayed in remote database search
results. For more information about searching remote databases, see
Search
multiple databases.
For serials such as magazines or newspapers, a summary of what issues the branch keeps appears just below the branch name. Expand the list to see individual issues.
Certain items may be marked by special icons:
: You may be able to
request that the library hold a specific copy of the title for you.
Click to request a specific
copy. See Request
a specific copy of a title.
: Some item information
may include notes, in which the library offers additional information
about items. These items are marked by the notes icon 
. To view the notes, click
the notes icon 
.
: An item on reserve
for a course is marked by the course reserve icon 
. You can click the icon to launch a search for
the course record.
The availability list may display call numbers. These call numbers help to identify the shelf location of each item at the branch. If you are viewing a periodical such as a magazine, a Designation column displays the volume number, issue, and date of each entry.
Click Full Display to see bibliographic information for a title. You may find links in the full record for the title. For example, you may be able to click the author’s name to browse authors in the catalog, beginning with the name you selected. This is an easy way to find other titles by the same author. Other links may lead you to titles about related subjects. See Browse the catalog.
Note:
The bibliographic record may include a call number. This call number does not necessarily correspond to the classification method
of a particular branch. Local call numbers for specific items may be
included in the availability list. See Availability.
MARC Record (Librarian’s View)
You may see a Librarian’s View link. Click Librarian’s View to see the MARC record for the title. This information is most useful to librarians responsible for the library’s catalog records.
Your library may subscribe to services that offer enriched data such as tables of contents, reviews, and summaries for titles in your search results list. Click the title, the book jacket, or the Availability or Full Display button for a title in the search results list, and click an information link in the list on the right side of the title information.
~ Summary, Reviews, Large Cover Images, Awards, Excerpts - This type of information appears below the title when you select the link. When you have finished viewing the information, you can select another information link or click Hide Details.
~ Ebsco’s NoveList® for fiction titles - Your library may offer NoveList, a readers’ advisory service for fiction titles. You can click the NoveList link to view additional information about a title in your search results, and do further searches for fiction within NoveList. Click NoveList in the list of information links. The Ebsco NoveList Web site opens in a frame in the lower part of the page. Use the browser Back and Next buttons and controls on the NoveList Web site to navigate the site, and click the link above the NoveList frame to return to your search results.
~ Find more like this - Click this link to get a list of related titles available at the library. If your library offers related titles, you see a list of title links in the lower part of the title information. You can click a title link to search for the title in the library.
~ Find similar titles - This link takes you to a Web site where you can specify the characteristics of a title that interests you and get a list of similar titles available at the library. When you click the link, a checklist of characteristics is displayed.
Select (check) the characteristics that interest you, and click Search at the bottom of the page (or click Reset to clear your choices). A list of similar titles is displayed. For more information about a title, click the title link.
The title information appears in a new frame at the right side of the page. You can scroll the frame to see more information, check new characteristics, and launch another search. For the shelf location and status of the title in the library, click Shelf Status. Click Close Window near the bottom of the page to return to your original search results.