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Search

The Search function enables you to find records by entering keywords or phrases. A variety of search types provide sophisticated search capabilities.

The Search function will retrieve a maximum of 2000 records per set of results. If your search finds more than 2000 records, you will be prompted to rephrase your search statement.

Basic Search

The Basic Search allows you to search by keywords in all fields of a record, the title, the author, the subject, or the exact title, and to Browse an alphabetical list by author, title, subject, or call number. Because library catalogs are alphabetical indexes, it is not always necessary to enter complete titles. For example, music arr will lead to Music Arranging and Orchestration.

Guided Search

The Guided Search allows you to search in multiple fields at once. Such searching is especially helpful when you are looking for a specific book but are not certain about its complete title or the author's complete name. For example, searching for medieval in the title field and jones in the author field will lead to such titles as Chaucer's Knight: The Portrait of a Medieval Mercenary by Terry Jones and Street Life in Medieval England by G. T. Salusbury-Jones.

Guided searches may also be limited by format (book, periodical, music, map, etc.), by library, by language, and by date. For example, a search for books published in the 1980s would involve entering 198? in the date box.

Command Search

The Command Search is useful for lengthy Boolean searches such as (amazon or andes) and (botany or plant? or forest?). To limit the search terms to particular fields of a record, see Command Language.

Journal Title Search

The Journal Title Search looks only for titles of journals, magazines, newspapers, and other serials. This type of search can be performed only in the entire catalog, not the catalog of an individual library.

Reserve Search

The Reserve Search can be used to limit the results of materials faculty have placed on reserve. Titles, authors, course names, and names of professors may be searched. This type of search can be performed only in the entire catalog, not the catalog of an individual library.

Select Individual Libraries

You may choose to search the catalog of any CUNY library or to search all CUNY libraries at the same time.

Initial Articles

In title searches, do not include a, an, the, la, les, etc. when they appear at the beginning of the title.

Capitalization

As the above examples have indicated, there is no need to capitalize anything in any search.

Truncation

Either the question mark (?) or the asterisk (*) may be used to retrieve results for several forms of a word. For example, student? will find records containing both student and students, and psycholog* will find psychology, psychological, psychologist, psychologists, etc. The question mark may also be used at the beginning of a word root. For example, ?economics will retrieve macroeconomics and microeconomics.

Variant Spellings

The pound symbol (#) can be used to find different spellings in cases where one version of a word has one more character than another. For example, colo#r will find both color and colour; arch#eology will find both archaeology and archeology.

The exclamation mark (!) can be used in cases where a single letter may vary. For example, wom!n will find both woman and women.

Adjacent Words

The percentage symbol (%), followed by a number, may be placed between two words to indicate that you want the words to appear within a particular distance from each other, regardless of the order. For example, introduction%3computer science will retrieve An Introduction to Computer Science, An Introduction to the Theory of Computer Science, and Computer Science: An Introduction.

The exclamation mark (!), followed by a number, may be placed between two words to indicate that you want the words to appear within a particular distance from each other and in the same order in which you enter the words. In this case, Introduction!3computer will retrieve An Introduction to Computer Science and An Introduction to the Theory of Computer Science but not Computer Science: An Introduction.

Command Language

The following abbreviations may be used only in the Command Search option. See Boolean Searching for examples of searches.

WAU	Author field
WCO	Author, corporate
WME	Author, meeting name
BAR	Barcode
WCK	Call number	See also: Library of Congress Classification Outline
WRD	General keyword
WLN	Language code	Use first three letters See also: MARC Code List for Languages (Library of Congress)
WCL	Library collection code	Examples: ref, stack, juv
WOW	Library, owning, field	Examples: BB, BC, BX, CC, etc.
WSL	Library, sublibrary code
WFM	Marc format (coded)	BK - books CF - computer file MP - map MU - music MX - mixed materials SE - serial VM - visual materials
WPD	Material, category of (coded)	007 field, position 1: See also: MARC 21 Concise Bibliographic: Control Field 007 A - map C - electronic resource D - globe F - tactile material G - projected graphic H - microform K - nonprojected graphic M - motion picture Q - notated music R - remote-sensing image S - sound recording T - text V - videorecording Z - unspecified
WFS	Material, form of (coded)	006field, position 1: See also: MARC 21 Concise Bibliographic: Control Fields (001-006) (identical to WRT, except for s - serial control) a - printed lanuage material c - printed music d - manuscript music e - printed cartographic material f - manuscript cartographic material g - projected medium I - nonmusical sound recording j - musical sound recording k - 2-dimensional nonprojectable graphic m - computer file o - Kit p - mix material r - 3-dimensional artifact or naturally occur'g object t - manuscript language material
WNB	New book	Example: WNB=nbl
WNC	Note, contents
WNO	Notes, general
WPE	Performer field
WPP	Publication, place of	See also: MARC Code List for Countries (Library of Congress)
WYR	Publication, year of
WPU	Publisher
WRT	Record type (coded)	See WFS
WSE	Series	Not serials / periodicals
WSC	Subject, corporate
WSG	Subject, geographical
WSM	Subject, meeting
WSP	Subject, person
WSF	Subject, uniform title
WSU	Subjects, all
SYS	System number
WTO	Title, main (245)
WUT	Title, uniform
WTI	Title
WUR	URL

Following are examples of Command Language searches:

wsu=baseball
wti=media and violence
wau=strunk and white
wau=morrison and wti=immigration
wau=nasaw and wsu=immigration
wsu=physics and wpu=oxford and wyr=200?
wow=gc

Boolean Searching

Use the Boolean operators AND, OR, and NOT to perform searches when author, title, subject, and simple keyword searches fail or are inappropriate.

AND indicates that all terms must be in a record: women and homelessness.
OR indicates that any of the terms may be present: oil or petroleum.
NOT indicates that one or more terms should be excluded: depression not economic.

AND searches are helpful when you are looking for a specific book but are uncertain about the exact title or the author's name: canadian literature and gordon. Using the Command Language abbreviations can make such searches more exact: wti=canadian literature and wau=winks. This search will find any titles containing the phrase canadian literature whose author is Winks.

OR searches are helpful when using synonyms or when you are uncertain about a name or the spelling of a name: thought or philosophy or idea?; jones or smith; cline or klein or kline.

NOT searches are helpful when you need to exclude certain records from the results: clinton not hillary.

More than one Boolean operator may appear in a search: (president? or elect?) and (bush or clinton) not (gore or hillary); (germany or japan) and world war ii and cause?.

Notice that whenever you use OR with either AND or NOT or both that you must place the terms joined by OR in parentheses.

Search History

This function displays a list of results from recent searches and allows you to

• select a set of results and see the list of records in the set;
• modify a set by Crossing (combining) it with one or more search terms;
• narrow or widen your search by Crossing sets using AND or OR;
• delete sets from the list.

Browse

Browse List

The Browse List displays an alphabetical list of entries, shows the number of records for each entry and indicates whether or not there are cross-references for the entry. Click on an underlined entry to see the associated records for the entry. Click on the cross-reference symbol X to see a list of cross-references.

There are 3 ways to go to a Browse List:

• Use the Browse function, and choose an Index to browse. After typing in the text that you want to appear at the top of the list, the Browse List will be displayed.
  
  
• Use the Search function. When viewing a bibliographic record, you may click any underlined or linked part and receive a Browse List of entries. For example, if you click the Author link, you will receive an alphabetical list of authors, with the author displayed in the record at the top of the list.
  
  
• While viewing a list of cross-references, clicking a link will present a Browse List. For example, clicking the Heading link will present a list of entries with the current heading at the top.

List of Records

A List of Records is displayed as a result of a Search request or from a Browse List by clicking an underlined entry. You can also choose a previous List of Records by selecting Search History.

A List of Records may be viewed in a variety of formats by selecting Display Options. No matter which option you set as the default, you will always be able to see the Full View of the record by clicking an underlined record number in a List of Records.

Various actions may be performed on a List of Records. Clicking the white boxes next to the records indicates that the actions will be performed on only these records:

• Select All : actions will be performed on all records in the list;
• View Selected : only the selected records will be displayed;
• Deselect : record selections are removed;
• Save/Mail : selected records may be saved to a disk or hard drive or e-mailed to any address;
  Some commercial e-mail systems may not accept these records.
• Create Subset : full views of selected records will be displayed one at a time;
• Save to Folder : selected records go into folder for later viewing, printing, saving, or e-mailing;
• Refine : current search may be modified by adding another search term;
• Filter : a list of records may be limited to the titles available in a specific CUNY library; to titles only in English, French, German, Italian, Russian, or Spanish; to available items (circulating materials not checked out); to new items (those added to the catalog in the past 60 days); etc.

Full View of Record

In the Full View, which is reached by clicking the number in front of a record, you will see the complete bibliographic information and the Library of Congress Subject Headings.

Clicking a title, author, or subject link will create a Browse List.

Clicking the name of a campus will provide the call number (if the item is a book) and its loan status.

Clicking the Information icon will give you a library's address, telephone numbers, and hours.

Holdings

Availability, due dates, and locations of materials are available by clicking the underlined Holdings link of a record. A list of items will then be displayed.

Title Requests

If you are a CUNY student, staff or faculty member, request any circulating book found in CUNY+.

Here are the steps for placing a request in CUNY+:

1. Make sure that your record at your home library contains the e-mail address you currently use. You can check this information at the Circulation Desk.
   
   
2. Register yourself in CUNY+ by clicking on MY ACCOUNT at the top of the screen. Follow the instructions for entering your bar code and setting a password.
   
   
3. When displaying the full view of a record in the union catalog the option to request the title is in the orange bar at the top of the screen. Click on it and select the library where you would like to pick up the book. The first available copy in any CUNY library will fill your request. You will be notified by e-mail when the book has arrived at the pickup location you specified in your request.
   
   
4. If you request a title in the catalog of a individual library only that specific copy will be used to fill your request.

CLICS

CUNY's New Book Delivery Service

How to use CLICS

Need a book that is checked out at your home library? Use CLICS: a new book delivery service that lets you request a book from any CUNY library to be delivered to you for pick up at any other CUNY library!

How it works:

You are a student at the College of Staten Island and a circulating book you need is not available in that collection.

• Log in to My Account in CUNY+
• Search the CUNY+ Union Catalog instead of your local library collection
• Locate the information on all of copies of the title you want by clicking on the campus holdings information

• If the item status is listed as Regular Loan the item is a circulating book and you can request it
• Click in the link mark 2. Request

• If you haven't signed into your library account yet you will now be prompted for your library username and password at this time. If this is this first time you have used the system your username and your password will be you library barcode that is located on your CUNY ID.

• Select your pick up location from the drop-down menu.

• After you select your pickup location Click Go to finish your request, you will then see a confirmation message that the request has been completed.

• Log out of your CUNY+ session
• E-mail notification will be sent to you when the book is available for check out at the Circulation Desk of the selected library or if your request could not be filled and you need to try another library. For CLICS to work properly the library needs to have a valid email address for you on file.Please visit the circulation desk of any library to confirm or change your email address. You can review your address information in "My Account".
• NOTE: Also check your "My Account" in CUNY+ to see if CLICS requested items are On Hold meaning they are available for you. The following CUNY libraries - BMCC, Bronx, City College, Hostos, Lehman, Medgar Evers, and York are not yet configured to send email notifications regarding requested items. If you request items from these libraries, you can check "My Account" to see when it is ready for pick up, or On Hold for you. If an item is In Process it is still en route.

Here's another example:

You are a student at the Graduate Center, you live near City Tech and you know that a needed book is only available at the Hunter College Library.

• Log in to "My Account" in CUNY+
• Select the Hunter College Library and search for your book
• Request the item
• Select City Tech from the drop-down menu as the pickup library
• Log out of your CUNY+ session
• E-mail notification will be sent to you when the book is available at the City Tech Library Circulation Desk

It's that simple.

Eligibility

• CUNY undergraduate and graduate students, faculty members or staff members with an active, unblocked library account at one of the CUNY Libraries can use the service
• Regularly circulating books may be requested whether they are on the shelf or already checked out to another patron
• CLICS requests for multiple-part music scores at Queens and Brooklyn cannot be filled; BMCC will cancel CLICS requests for CDs

Some do's and don'ts:

• Circulation and overdue fine policies of the lending library apply
• Consult the CUNY Libraries Circulation Policies for current loan and fine policy information
• Request circulating books (exceptions above) from any CUNY libraryfor delivery at any other CUNY library

Exception:

• You cannot request books to be delivered to the same library. For example, if you request a title from CCNY, you can't request that a book be pulled from the stacks at CCNY and be delivered to the Circulation Desk at CCNY. CLICS only works for books going from one CUNY campus to another.

Other related news:

• Courtesy reminders will be emailed to borrowers 3 days prior to an item's due date. (Make sure your library has your current email address!)
• You can renew items through "My Account" in CUNY+ as long as they are not several days overdue

FAQ's

1. Why can't I just use Interlibrary Loan service to request books from other CUNY Libraries?

At some campuses you can do that, but CLICS is easier to use, faster, and is open to undergraduates. It also costs the libraries a lot less to fill book requests via CLICS. At campuses where you can use either CLICS or ILL, there may also be limits on the number of concurrent Interlibrary Loan requests or fees charged to you.

 

2. Can I use CLICS from home?

Yes. You can search and request from CUNY+ using any browser from any location. CUNY+ recognizes your home campus by your library barcode.

 

3. How long will it take to get my book?

That will depend on the day of the week and time of day you make your request. However, as part of the CLICS implementation, the CUNY libraries are all receiving daily inter-campus week day pick-up and delivery service. Our aim is to gradually reduce delivery time to several days, excluding weekends and holidays. Our ability to achieve this goal will depend on the volume of requests as well as staff availability. [Note that books requested from the Hunter Health Professions and the School of Social work libraries will require additional delivery time since they are first sent to the main Hunter Library.]

 

4. What if I something I requested using CLICS is missing?

You will be notified if your request can't be filled by the library from which you requested it. You can try to request it from another CUNY library.

 

5. What if none of the copies listed in CUNY+ are available?

If copies of an item are out on loan, you can put a hold on one of the borrowed copies. You will be notified when it becomes available. If all the listed copies are missing or are unavailable for other reasons, you can request it through your local Interlibrary Loan service. Check with your library's Interlibrary Loan policies and procedures for eligibility, etc.

 

6. I have more questions. Where can I get additional information?

Contact staff at the Circulation Desk at any of the CUNY Libraries. For individual library loan and fine policies, you can look at the CUNY Libraries Circulation Policies

 

7. Why didn't I get an email about my CLICS book?

The following CUNY libraries - BMCC, Bronx, City College, Hostos, Lehman, Medgar Evers, and York are not configured to send email messages yet. You can always check "My Account" in CUNY+ to see if CLICS requested items are available.

My Account

This function allows you to view information about the items you have borrowed (such as due dates and fines), to renew books, and to run alerts.

Alerts

You may create a search strategy that will be run at intervals you specify. The results will be sent to you through the message function of the catalog.

Display Options

This function allows you to set preferences for the display of information on your screen. You can establish the order in which records are sorted and determine the format in which records are presented. Your preferences for printing and e-mailing records are also set here.

Folder

The Folder is used to hold records you want saved or e-mailed. From a list of results, click in the white box next to the record number, and then click Add to Folder to move the selected records into your folder.

The Folder can be opened at any time by clicking Folder on the top blue bar of the catalog, and the records can be viewed, saved, or e-mailed. You can empty the Folder by clicking Delete All.

Click Save/Mail to save records to a disk or hard drive or to e-mail them to yourself or others. To e-mail records, enter one or more addresses, click the Go button. When entering more than one, separate the e-mail addresses with a semicolon (;). To save records, leave the e-mail line blank, and click Go followed by Save Selected. The saved records will appear, and you can use the File/Save As function of your Web browser to save them to a desk or a directory. Be sure to change the Save as type to Text file.

End Session

The function returns you to the first screen.