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Exercise: creating an online order file for resources without ISBNs
This two-part task requires you to create an Order file using the SCIS record numbers for resources. To find the SCIS record number, you need to search the SCIS OPAC cataloguing database. Searching hints are provided under each question.
- In Part A, use the Basic Search facility in SCIS OPAC to locate the SCIS record number for the given resources.
- In Part B, use the Guided Search facility in SCIS OPAC to locate the SCIS record number for the given resources.
Hint: You can have a Create orders screen, and a SCIS OPAC search screen open at the same time, so you can copy and paste the SCIS record number into your order file. Go to File on the top menu, click on New in the drop-down box, and select Window. For the new window, you then navigate to the screen you need. Alternatively, use the keyboard shortcuts, Ctrl-N. To toggle backwards and forwards between the two windows, use Alt-Tab buttons by pressing down the Alt-key, and then the Tab-key on the left of your keyboard
Part A: use Basic Search to locate the SCIS record number
- Fiction title, Hannah's winter (Search hint: Apostrophes can be left out when typing in search terms. In Basic Search, words of the title must be entered in the order in which they appear on the title page and begin with the first words of the title.. Enter the title and Select In Title field )
- A DVD with the title Shrek produced 2001.(Search hint: A DVD is considered a video recording according to library material formats identified by SCIS. You can refine or narrow your search by choosing the format, video recording, in Limit by)
- An EQ publication by Jason Locke on a literacy in-service training program published in 2003 (Search hint: When searching by author, put in the family name or surname first, followed by the first name or Christian name and select In Author field)
- Find an eight page book with the title Anzac Day published in 2004. (Search hint: You can refine your search by choosing to limit by Last 2 years or by Last 5 years)
- A CD with the title Toot toot! by the Australian musical group, The Wiggles, produced in 1998 (Search hint: CDs and cassettes are considered sound recordings according to library material formats identified by SCIS. In Basic Search, you can refine your search by choosing to limit by the format, sound recording)
Part B: use the Guided Search to locate the SCIS record number
Hint: When you choose the Guided Search option, you may notice the message: Search limits are in effect! This is a leftover from doing searches in Basic Search and applying Limit by to your search strategy. Click on the top banner Curriculum Corporation SCIS OPAC, which will clear the limits and initiate a new search.
- A map of Australia published in 2000 by the National Geographic Society in Washington, D.C. (Search hint: Use the term, National Geographic Society, as phrase in publisher name field, + the term, map, in gmd field, + the term, Australia, in keyword anywhere field).
- A website created by the ABC on the 2004 Asian tsunami (Search hint: Use the subject heading, Indian Ocean Tsunami, 2004, + website as the gmd, + ABC as keyword anywhere or publisher name).
- A lift the flap book Spot goes to school in Arabic and English text.
(Search hint: Search by title, Spot goes to school, + the phrase Arabic language as keyword anywhere).
- Sheet music for a school band performance of the work Imagine by John Lennon (Search hint: Search by title, Imagine, + author name Lennon, John, + music as the gmd).
- Find a learning object with the title Create the right graph produced by the Learning Federation.(Search hint: Learning objects have the gmd, electronic resource. Search by combining title and gmd).
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