In this tutorial, I will show
you how you can search in
specific locations or collections
through the library catalog's
Advanced Search. This
option can be very
helpful if you know where
an item should be located,
like in the children's
literature collection
or an archival collection.
I'm going to start on the
Thompson Library's homepage.
Navigate to the library
catalog through
the tab on the search box,
and then click on the
"advanced search" option.
In this search, I am going
to look for children's
literature,
books that have been awarded the Newbery Medal,
and were fairly
recently published.
So for example, in all fields,
I'm going to type
in Newbery Medal.
And then I'm going to
scroll down to the date of
publication and say I want
anything published
after 2000.
I'm also going to go over to
the location options over here.
I've got it set at Flint Thompson
Library as the default,
but I really only want
children's books,
not anything about the
Newbery Medal itself.
So if I click on
Children's Literature,
I should be given
just those books that are in
the literature collection.
And if I click on
"advanced search",
I've got 23 results.
And again, these are all
children's books that
have been awarded
the Newbery Medal and have been
published since 2000.
So you'll notice that
in the awards category,
and sometimes in a
subject heading,
the Newbery Medal
will be listed.
Now the location filter can
also expand your search.
So I'm gonna go back to
the advanced search screen
and I'm gonna leave the
Newbery Medal in there,
I'm going to leave
the data publication,
but I'm going to
change the Library
from the UM-Flint Thompson
Library to All Libraries,
see if there's an
Ann Arbor there.
I could also narrow it down
to Hatcher Graduate Library,
where I know that there is
a children's literature
collection and it's
actually listed here as well.
So I've gone to All Libraries,
I'm looking at just the
Hatcher collection as
well as their children's
literature collection.
And with this new search,
I will click the search button.
And I've gotten few
different results here,
but these all should have
a copy in
the Hatcher Graduate Children's
Literature collection.
They should all been
published since 2000.
And then again,
they will all have
that Newbery Medal Award
or possibly subject heading.
So this search can be
very helpful again,
if you basically know
where this book should be.
So especially with
archival materials,
with Children's Literature,
with possibly some other kind of
special collections that
might be in other libraries.
But if you have any questions
or need help with your research,
please contact a librarian
and thank you for watching.
