Media Collection: Search Strategies
Select the keyword search to retrieve the maximum number of media materials.
- Example: A keyword search for rainbow retrieves the song title "Over the Rainbow" on the audiocassette A Child's Celebration of Song.
Use an asterisk (*) to truncate the search term which locates alternate endings and plural spellings.
- Example: fox* (finds fox, foxes, foxy, foxed, etc)
Limit the search to a specific media format by using the "modify search" icon.
| 2-D Graphic |
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Charts |
| 3-D Object |
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Models and Puppets |
| Computer File |
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CD-ROMs |
| Kit |
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Titles with More Than One Component |
| Projected Medium |
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Videorecordings, DVDs, and Slides |
| Score |
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Printed Music Scores |
| Sound Record |
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Audiocassettes & Compact Discs with Vocal or Instrumental Music |
| Spoken Record |
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Audiocassettes & Compact Discs with Poetry or Prose |
Note the location of Media, on the Catalog record, located just to the left of the call number.
- Possible Media locations include:
| Juvenile |
Media N. G. A. (National Gallery of Art) |
| Juvenile Oversize |
Media Newbery |
| Media |
Media Oversize |
| Media Caldecott |
Media Poster |
| Media CD |
Media Reavis |
| Media DVD |
Media Textbook |
| Media Map |
Media Video |
Choose the broadest possible Library of Congress subject heading to locate media.
- Example: Animals--Study and Teaching
Locate most of the Media Collection's feature films by conducting a subject search for "feature films."
Ask the Media Collection staff for help.
Date Last Modified: Nov 12, 2004
Page URL: http://www.coastal.edu/library/media/search.html
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