1. Benny
Goodman Papers
show short, long and marc views
show information to access collection
show link to electronic finding aid
2. Professor
and the Madman
show title different from uniform title, different British and American titles.
3. The
Great Gatsby
show non-Beinecke location
4. Pride
and Prejudice
show record for video recording
5. Atlas
of African Prehistory
show multiple locations, notes for each location
6. Les
Miserables
limit search to French language and Beinecke library
1. Nature
select second record (with dates 1869-9999)
show multiple holdings
show various formats
link-out to electronic version
2. Atlantic
Monthly
show title changes
3. Political
Theory
display long view and show indexing information, etc.
4. Working
Papers
look for Institut de Ciències Polítiques i Socials (#14 in headings list)
show uniform title, other interesting things.
Keyword Search (Using Boolean)
1. children and nutrition (select Palmer book, 40,000,000 guinea pig children)
show all views
show redirected search by clicking on subject heading –children-nutrition
2. Does the library have any recordings of Evgeny Kissin playing Chopin?
chopin and kissin (select 1 record)
Select long view to show Kissin as performer.
3. (russia
not "soviet union") and economy
show same search with economy truncated at econo? for comparison.
4. Are there books by Kierkegaard about dread in English in CCL?
kierkegaard
and dread
limit to English and CCL location.
5. Does the library own Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol. 234? What is the title of that volume?
“Advances in experimental
medicine” and 234
click on series name to see all volumes
1. Search for criticism of Dante’s works in English, in the Cross Campus Library
+dante +criticism
limit to English and cross campus library on limits page
2. *"latin
america?" +women +history
view a few records to show relevancy. Re-sort by Publishing Date, Descending.
1. skey
“civil war” and tkey Lincoln
choose Abraham Lincoln and the union; a chronicle of the
embattled North, by...record
Show multiple locations.
2. nkey
kingsolver and tkey "poisonwood bible"
show same search as author search for comparison of results screen, etc.
3. Where can I find a Modern Library edition of “As I Lay Dying” by William Faulkner?
tkey
“as I lay dying” and kppd “modern library”
choose one and show results
4. tkey (precocious
and piggy)
select first record and show long view
5. What linguistics materials do we have published by Cambridge University Press?
skey
linguistics and kppd “cambridge university”
1. Joseph Campbell
select (1904-) heading
limit to videorecordings on limits page
2. Mosheh Bar-Asher
select one, show Hebrew text (if working)
3. American Chemical Society
limit to computer file show record and link out to it
4. William
H. Jackson
select Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942
select Photographic Views of North America and show extensive notes in long view
5. Gabriel
Garcia Marquez
limit to SML and works before 1990
6. W.G.
Sebald
limit to his works in German
1. William Shakespeare – search for Julius Caesar
show jumping through several screens to get to records.
choose one to display.
2. Stephen
King – search for The Green Mile – show record
3. Charles Dickens – search for Bleak House – show record
4. Wolfgang Mozart – search for an adagio – show record
5. Fyodor
Dostoyevsky – search for The Idiot – choose record to display
1. morality
plays (use see also to get at correct heading, moralities
choose Moralities, English
limit to Cross Campus Library
2. Charles de Gaulle.
post limit to French and German and SML
choose one record to display.
3. peptides
limit to English and Kline Science Library
1. Aesops
Fables
choose 1st
record (37 items) and then post limit to location (hint: this is a title search, no limits available.
2. Gilgamesh
choose Gilgamesh, English, show records and view one
3. Beowulf
choose Beowulf (80 titles), show records and choose one
4. El Cid
choose Cid (epic cycle), show records and choose one
Complex Searching:
1. dime
novels (select genre/form)
limit to French
2. usmle
(select local subjects)
show record and show local Yale subject listing is used
3. van
vechten (select local subjects)
select
The cook not mad… as example
4. “ms
notes” (select notes)
show examples of how notes are used
1. Gertrude
Stein (keyword anywhere)
and Alice B. Toklas papers [select
as a phrase] (title)
show link to finding aids
2. Does the library have the annual report from 1975 of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission?
Nucear regulatory commission[select
as a phrase] (author)
and annual report (title)
and 1975 (keyword anywhere)
show link out to electronic version.
3. Does the library have any information about Andy Warhol exhibits that were held at the Whitney Museum?
Andy warhol (subject)
and Whitney Museum (keyword
anywhere)
4. What Yale theses on public health were written between 1960 and 1980?
Yale (keyword anywhere)
and theses or thesis [select
any of these] (keyword anywhere)
and Public health (keyword
anywhere)
post limit to date range 1960 – 1980
5. What items published in Cambridge, but NOT by Cambridge University Press do we own related to philosophy?
cambridge
(publisher/place/date)
not
cambridge university press (publisher/place/date)
and
philosophy (subject)