Using the NEW MIRLYN

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Using the NEW MIRLYN

• Documents Center
• University of Michigan
• October 2004

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MIRLYNhttp//mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/

• Search Ann Arbor
• Books, Periodicals, and Electronic Materials in
  Library System, Bentley and Clements
• Find Articles
• Periodical Indexes
• Find Other Library Catalogs
• Catalogs of Independent Campus and Big 10
  Libraries, EMU, Ann Arbor District, Business
  Administration, Law

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MIRLYN Catalogshttp//mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/

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MIRLYN Signonhttp//mirlyn.lib.umich.edu

• GUEST Signon is automatic.
• VALIDATED Signon at first chance for
• Indexes, recalls, renewals, remote retrieval
• Links to campus-licensed web products, saving
  searches

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MIRLYN Two Major Searcheshttp//mirlyn.lib.umic
h.edu/

• BASIC browse or keyword
• ADVANCED keyword in multiple fields (e.g.
  author, title)

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MIRLYN Basic Searchhttp//mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/

• Browse or keyword author, title, subject,
  entire record, journal, call number

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MIRLYN Basic Search http//mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/

• Browse Title

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MIRLYN Basic Search http//mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/

• Click on Title for Search Result

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MIRLYN Basic Search http//mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/

• Search results list location and call number.
  Click on Location for circulation and retrieval
  information.

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MIRLYN Basic Search http//mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/

• If book is in Buhr Storage or North Campus, you
  can request delivery to the Graduate Library

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Retrieving Bookshttp//mirlyn.web.lib.umich.edu

• For the most part, you want to come to the
  library to retrieve the book in person
• Graduate Library Stacks Directory
• http//www.lib.umich.edu/navigator/gradstax.html

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Circulation Periodhttp//www.lib.umich.edu/circ/

• Length of circulation varies with library
• Undergraduate three weeks for everyone
• Graduate eight weeks if graduate student
• semester if faculty or T.A.
• three weeks if undergraduate
• Books can be recalled after three weeks
  regardless
• of initial circulation period

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MIRLYN Subject Searchinghttp//mirlyn.web.lib.umi
ch.edu

• Subjects Use Library of Congress Subject Headings
• (Controlled vocabulary regardless of title)

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MIRLYN Subject Searchinghttp//mirlyn.web.lib.umi
ch.edu

• LC Subject Country and Form Subdivisions

Country Subject Subdivisions United
States--Foreign Relations
China--Foreign Relations
Elections--Yugoslavia
Elections--United States Form Subdivisions
Elections--Bibliography
Politicians -Biography
Economics--Dictionaries
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MIRLYN Basic Search http//mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/

• Typical Library of Congress subject browse search

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MIRLYN Basic Search http//mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/

• Results provide a browsable list with all subject
  or geographic subdivisions

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MIRLYN Modifying Search http//mirlyn.lib.umich.
edu/

• Default list is alphabetically by title
• You can sort the list (e.g. by date, format,
  author)
• Use MODIFY to limit by language

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MIRLYN Modifying Search http//mirlyn.lib.umich.
edu/

• Use Modify Search to Only List English-language
  Titles

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MIRLYN Printing http//mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/

• To print, save, or e-mail an INDIVIDUAL record,
  use your web browser or click on
  Print/Export/E-Mail button

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MIRLYN Printing http//mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/

• To print, save, or e-mail search a list of
  results, either SELECT ALL (all boxes checked) or
  CHECK INDIVIDUAL BOXES and add to BASKET

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MIRLYN Printing http//mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/

• VIEW THE BASKET

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MIRLYN Printing http//mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/

• In the VIEW BASKET mode, click on the
  Print/Export/Email button

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MIRLYN Printing http//mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/
Choose RECORD format then PRINT, SAVE, or
EMAIL. Printing or saving with web browser
doesnt always work well.
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MIRLYN Basket http//mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/

• You can add NEW search results to the Basket
• To see whats in the basket, click on the blue
  BASKET at the top

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MIRLYN Basket v. My Shelf http//mirlyn.lib.umic
h.edu/

• Baskets for all searches can be printed or
  exported for current session only
• You can save individual titles in baskets to MY
  SHELF for subsequent logons, the call numbers
  will NOT be saved.

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MIRLYN Saved Searches http//mirlyn.lib.umich.ed
u/

• Your searches are automatically saved during your
  session.
• Click on PREVIOUS SEARCHES to see them.

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MIRLYN Saved Searches http//mirlyn.lib.umich.ed
u/

• Searches in one session can be combined (and OR
  or)
• They can be saved permanently through ADD TO MY
  SAVED SEARCHES.

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MIRLYN Keyword Searchinghttp//mirlyn.web.lib.umi
ch.edu

• Uses Boolean Logic

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MIRLYN Keyword Searchinghttp//mirlyn.web.lib.umi
ch.edu
http//www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/training/boolean.
pdf
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MIRLYN Keyword Searching http//mirlyn.lib.umich
.edu/

• Keyword searching available in Basic Search for
  ONE field all, author, title, subject, or
  journal name.

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MIRLYN Keyword Searching http//mirlyn.lib.umich
.edu/

• KEYWORD PROTOCOLS
• Phrases in quotation marks
  gender gap
• AND, OR, NOT
  russia not soviet
• Truncation as or ?
  womn or wom?n
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  cat? Or cat
• Within a few words !
  security council !5 resolution

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MIRLYN Keyword Searching http//mirlyn.lib.umich
.edu/

• gender gap is phrase and operator vot is
  truncated

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MIRLYN Keyword Searching http//mirlyn.lib.umich
.edu/

• Blair !5 Bush means blair within 5 words of Bush

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MIRLYN Keyword Searching http//mirlyn.lib.umich
.edu/

• Keyword (vietnam) and author (ellsberg) would
  identify titles when you dont exactly remember
  use resulting subject headings in record for
  similar materials

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MIRLYN Format Symbols http//mirlyn.lib.umich.ed
u/

• Symbols in search results stand for format, e.g.
  book, journal, microform, CD-ROM, internet
  internet items are hot-linked

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MIRLYN My Account http//mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/

• Includes books checked out to you, recalls,
  holds, fines allow you to renew books