Dial Access to ILLINET Online Terminal Settings * Up to 9600 Baud (auto-adjusts to caller's modem speed 300-9600 baud * Parity EVEN * Word length of 7 bits * 1 stop bit * Full Duplex (Echo On) Logon/Logoff Procedures * When Communications software indicates a connection, press ENTER or RETURN key 1-2 times * At IO logo screen, type B and press Enter or RETURN key * System responds with a "WELCOME" message and you may begin searching * To quit, type LOGOFF and DISCONNECT WITH YOUR COMMUNICATIONS SOFTWARE Dial number closest to you Chicago Area * Chicago 312-996-8844 * N. Suburban 708-295-0077 * W. Suburban 708-355-9528 Northern Illinois * DeKalb 815-753-1863 Central Illinois * Champaign-Urbana 217-333-8269 * Bloomington-Normal 309-452-5623 * Springfield 217-786-6286 Western Illinois * Macomb 309-836-2050 * Quad Cities 309-799-7347 Southern Illinois * Metro east 618-692-2903 * Carbondale 618-453-8091 ILLINET ONLINE SEARCHING GUIDE IO searches will automatically search the collection of one ILCSO library. The "default" or "scope" for each dial access number is listed below: Bloomington-Normal 309-452-5623 Illinois St. Univ. Carbondale 618-453-8091 Southern Ill. Univ.-C. Champaign-Urbana 217-333-8269 Univ. of Ill.-Urbana Chicago 312-996-8844 Univ. of Ill.-Urbana DeKalb 815-753-1863 Northern Ill. Univ. Macomb 309-836-2050 Western Ill. Univ. Metro East 618-692-2903 Southern Ill. Univ.-C. N. Suburban 708-295-0077 Univ. of Ill.-Urbana Quad Cities 309-799-7347 Univ. of Ill.-Urbana Springfield 217-786-6286 Univ. of Ill.-Urbana W. Suburban 708-355-9528 Univ. of Ill.-Urbana To search for items from other libraries or groups of libraries enter the scope codes from the list below in this format. F T THERMAL POLLUTION $SC (Find Title Thermal Pollution at location (Chicago State Univ., Chicago) AR Aurora Univ., Aurora NC North Central College, Naperville CT Catholic Theo. Union, Chicago NU Northeastern Ill. Univ., Chicago CS Chicago State Univ., Chicago NI Northern Ill. Univ., DeKalb CL Columbia College, Chicago OA Oakton Comm. College, DesPlaines DP DePaul Univ., Chicago RU Roosevelt University, Chicago EA Eastern Ill. Univ., Charleston RO Rosary College, River Forest EL Elmhurst College, Elmhurst SX St. Xavier College, Chicago GS Governors St. Univ., Univ. Park SS Sangamon State Univ., Springfield IB Ill. Benedictine College, Lisle SA School of the Art Inst., Chicago IT Ill. Institute of Tech., Chicago SC Southern Ill. Univ., Carbondale IM Ill. Math & Science Acad., Aurora SE Southern Ill. Univ., Edwardsville IS Ill. State Univ., Normal SM SIU School of Medicine, Springfield IW Ill. Wesleyan Univ., Bloomington TC Triton College, River Grove JU Judson College, Elgin CC Univ. of Ill., Chicago KK Kankakee Community College MC Univ. of Ill., Health Science Libs. LF Lake Forest College, Lake Forest UC Univ. of Ill., Urbana-Champaign ML Millikin Univ., Decatur WE Western Ill. Univ., Macomb ILLINET LIBRARY SYSTEMS ILLINET online scoping codes (in parenthese) Bur Oak Sys. (BOLS) North Suburban Lib. Sys (NSLS) Chicago Library Sys. (CLS) Northern Illinois Lib. Sys. (NILS) Corn Belt Library Sys. (CBLS) River Bend library Sys. (RBLS) Coumberland Trail Lib. SYS. (CTLS Rolling Priairie Lib. Sys. (RPLS) DuPage Library Sys. (DLS) Shawnee Library Sys. (SHLS) Great River Library Sys. (GRLS) Starved Rock Library Sys. (SRLS) Illinois Valley Library Sys. (IVLS) Suburban Library Sys. (SLS) Kaskaskia Library Sys. (KLS) Westem Illinois Lib. Sys. (WILS) Lewis & Clark Library Sys. (LCLS) Lincoln Trail Lib. Sys. (LTLS) Research & Reference Cts. Chicago Public Library (CPL) Illinois State Labrary (ISL) SIU -Carbondale (SC) Univ. of Chicago (UOC) Univ. of Ill-Urbana (UC) As a Group (RRC) Ctr. for Research Libraries (CRL) ALL ILLINET Library (ALL) THERE ARE TWO LIBRARY SYSTEMS FULL BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD (FBR) AND LIBRARY COMPUTER SYSTEM (LCS) WHEN YOU CALL ILLINET YOU HAVE ACCESS TO BOTH SYSTEMS. YOU CAN USE EITHER CODEING SYSTEM. FBR SYSTEM CODES SEARCH COMMANDS KEY IDENTIFIERS F FIND A AUTHOR T TERM I ISBN S SELECT ISS ISSN KEY access points KAC CORPORATE AUTHOR KEYWORD L LINK R RECORD ID H HOLD S SUBJECT SET SERIES TITLE T TITLE OPTIONS BOOLEAN OPERATORS $,S SUMMARY DISPLAY .and. .a. * = and $,M MINIMUN DISPLAY .or. .o. + = or $,F FULL DISPLAY .not. .n. / = not $,C COMPLETE MARC $,X ACCESS POINTS $,,T TITLE SORT $,,T AUTHOR SORT FIND COMMAND The FIND (F) command will provide you with bibliographic information about one or more books. Bibliographic information may include authors, title, place of publication, number of pages, etc. The abbreviation for the FIND command is F. You can search for books by specifying a subject, an author's name, a title or the title of the series in which they are found. For example: F S ROBOTS will get you information on books about robots. F A TWAIN, MARKwill get you information on books by Mark Twain. F T BELL TOLLS will get you information on books with these words in the title, such as "For Whom the Bell Tolls." TERM COMMAND The TERM (T) search provides a way to verify an author's name, a subject heading or a series title. If you are not getting the results you want from a FIND search, a TERM search will often help. For example, if you could not find any books by the Galloping Gourmet, you would type T A GALLOPING GOURMET, and the online catalogue would respond: Galloping Gourmet SEE Kerr, Graham. When you have located the name or subject that you want, you can do a FIND search to see information about the relevant books. Suppose you had done a search for the subject, androids. (T S ANDROIDS) The online catalogue responds: 1. Androids. 2.--Fiction. 3.--Juvenile literature. If you wanted stories about androids, you would type F 2. This would get you information about books under the subject heading ANDROIDS--FICTION. If you wanted to see all books about androids, you could type F 1-3 or F 1,2,3. This table gives some options for doing precise TERM searches. Subject Author Series General (includes all options given below) S A SE Personal name SP AP SEP Corporate (group) name SC AC SEC Corporate (group) name, by keyword KSC KAC KSEC Uniform title STU ATU SET Topical term ST Geographic term FBR command. SG BROWSE COMMAND The BROWSE command provides better searching of subject headings, authors' names and series titles when the TERM search produces more than 10 headings. You will also want to use it if you do not know the exact heading to search. Browsing allows you to move through the list of headings from a specified point, displaying all headings in alphabetical order. The displayed headings are options that you can use as you continue your search. The BROWSE search is usually used after a TERM search. To display the alphabetical list of headings that follow a given heading, type BROWSE and the number of the heading from the previous TERM search. BROWSE may be abbreviated B. For example, suppose a TERM search gave you these results: 3. Veterinary medicine. 4. --Diagnosis. 16. --Handbooks, manuals, etc. 5. --Diagnosis, differential. TITLE SEARCH You can use the title search even when you do not know the exact title of a book. The search looks for the titles that include the words you specify. You can list the words in any order. You do not have to type the whole title, but your search wil be more precise if you do. For example, all of these searches get you the book "For Whom the Bell Tolls" F T FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS F T TOLLS BELL WHOM F T BELL The last search is not a good choice, however, because it will get you information on more than 100 books. You probably do not want to see it all. SUBJECT SEARCH The library assigns subject headings to books from lists prepared by the Library of Congress and National Library of Medicine. If you are certain that you know the subject that you want (perhaps you found it at the bottom of the catalogue information from another book), you can simply type FIND SUBJ (or F S) followed by the subject that you want. For example, F S RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL F S TUBA ENSEMBLES F S HISTORY--ERRORS, INVENTIONS, ETC. SERIES SEARCH, TITLE The series title search will get you information on books in a given series. If you are reasonably certain that you know the series title, read on. Otherwise, you will want to do a TERM search to verify the title. The abbreviation for this search is F SET. To do this search, simply type the name of the series. Because this is not a keyword search, the title must be accurate. Here are two examples: F SET STUDIES IN AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE F SET POLLUTION TECHNOLOGY REVIEW COMBINATION (BOOLEAN) SEARCH Combination searching allows you to include two or more concepts in a single search. You can search for books by joint authors, books by an author on a given subject, or any other combination that you can think of. Search concepts are combined using the following Boolean operators: .AND. Both concepts must must be in the books that are retrieved. .OR. Either or both concepts must be in the books that are retrieved. .NOT. Books with the following concept should not be retrieved. See the examples on this page and the next. To find books by Alan Purves about reading comprehension: F A PURVES, ALAN C. .AND. S READING COMPREHENSION Notice that you type the F only once but each concept (A for author, S for subject) must be identified. COMBINATION SEARCH, EXAMPLES To find works by Gilbert and Sullivan: F A GILBERT, W. S. .AND. A SULLIVAN, ARTHUR To find works by Griffith Quinby with "PCBs" in the title: F A QUINBY, GRIFFITH ERNEST .AND. T PCBS To find works about disarmament or arms control: F S DISARMAMENT .OR. S ARMS CONTROL To find works by Frank Lloyd Wright or Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: F A WRIGHT, FRANK LLOYD .OR. A MIES VAN DER ROHE, LUDWIG To find works about clinical psychology that were not written by E. Hoch: F S CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY .NOT. A HOCH, ERASMUS LEONARD To find works by Nin or Johnson under the subject of literature: F (A NIN, ANAIS .OR. A JOHNSON, BARBARA) .AND. S AUTHORS, AMERICAN Notice that you can combine more than two concepts. Parentheses group items here just as they do in algebra. Complex searches like this take a bit longer to process. Be prepared to wait a few seconds. BROADENING A SEARCH (TRUNCATION) Sometimes when you are doing a FIND or TERM search, you may not have all the information needed to do an exact search. For example, if you are searching for an author, you may not know his or her middle name or the exact spelling of the surname.If you are searching by title, you may not know how the endings of certain key words are spelled. If you are searching for a series title, you may be confident about the words at the beginning of the title, but not the end. The solution to all these problems is called "truncation." To do a truncation search, substitute a pound sign (#) for the parts of the search that you do not know. For example, if you are not sure what the "F" stands for in "John F. Kennedy", you would type: F A KENNEDY, JOHN F# This command will get you information on books by any John Kennedy whose middle name begins with "F." Truncation can be used in a search when you are not sure of the spelling of a word in the title. For example, if you want to search a title containing the words "online" and "catalogue," but are not sure whether the word is spelled "catalogue," "catalogues," "catalog" or "catalogs," you would type: F T ONLINE CATALOG# Truncation can also be used to search a series title when you know the words at the beginning of the title, but are unsure about the words at the end. For example: F T STUDIES IN AMERICAN HISTORY# Truncation is also useful when you are searching for subjects. If you want information about the Champaign area, type: T S CHAMPAIGN# This search retrieves information about the city, the county and the region. THE LINK COMMAND The two parts of the online catalogue, LCS and FBR, have separate pools of data. As you already know, FBR has flexible searching capabilities, but no call numbers or locations. However, you can do an FBR FIND search and then ask to see the LCS data that corresponds to your results by using the LINK (L) command. For example, the title search F T SOCIAL WORK DEVIANT retrieves only one record. To see the corresponding LCS record, you would type L. The search, F T PLANNING NOW, retrieves 4 titles. In this case, you could ask to see all 4 LCS records (L 1-4) or specific individual matching LCS records (L 1,3). It is important to know that not all FBR records link to LCS records. The FBR database contains information about books from several libraries. Because some of these libraries do not use LCS, some books are not linked. Nevertheless, the title could be in LCS, so you should always try an LCS search using LCS commands. LCS SYSTEM CODES There are three commands which can be used for general searching in LCS: ATS/ for author-title searches, TLS/ for title searches, and AUT/ for author search- es. The following explanations use as an example the book Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. ATS/ The search code consists of the first four letters of the author's last name and the first five letters of the first word in the title. (Words on the stoplist are not used; see HELP,STOPLIST.) example: ATS/DICKOLIVE TLS/ The search code consists of the first four letters of the first word in the title and the first five letters of the second word in the title. (Words on the stoplist are not used.) example: TLS/OLIVTWIST AUT/ The search code consists of the first six letters of the author's last name and the first three letters of the author's first name. example: AUT/DICKENCHA IF THERE IS ONLY ONE MATCH TO A SEARCH CODE, LCS WILL DISPLAY THE DETAILED IN- FORMATION FOR THE ITEM. THE DETAILED INFORMATION INCLUDES THE CALL NUMBER, AUTHOR, TITLE, PLACE OF PUBLICATION, PUBLICATION DATE, NUMBER OF COPIES, LOCA- TION OF EACH COPY, AND WHETHER THE ITEM IS CHARGED. IF THERE IS MORE THAN ONE MATCH TO A SEARCH CODE, LCS DISPLAYS A TRUNCATED LIST OF ALL THE ITEMS MATCHING THE CODE. THIS LIST IS IN RANDOM ORDER. TO OBTAIN COMPLETE INFORMATION ON A DESIRED ITEM, A SEARCH BY LINE (DSL/) MUST BE PER- FORMED. The shelf position search is used to provide a display of titles in a call num- ber area. It is similar to browsing the shelves because classification systems are designed to place materials on the same subject together as well as all editions of an item. The shelf position search can be used as a rough form of subject searching. To do a shelf position search, type the search command SPS/ followed by part or all of a call number. This search displays the 15 titles that are shelved before and the 15 titles that are shelved after a call number. The number you typed will be displayed on line 16. The first display is page 2. Type PG1 to get the preceding page or type PG3 to get the following page. To obtain detailed information on a title, a detailed search by line (DLS/) must be performed. To continue an SPS beyond PG3, reenter SPS/ and last call number listed on PG3. IF YOUR SEARCH HAS PRODUCED MORE THAN ONE TITLE, READ DOWN THE LIST OF TITLES TO DETERMINE WHICH LINE SHOWS YOUR ITEM. TO DISPLAY THE COMPLETE INFORMATION FOR THIS ITEM ENTER A DETAILED SEARCH BY LINE NUMBER. THE FORMAT FOR THIS IS: DSL/N WHERE N IS THE LINE NUMBER OF THE TITLE WANTED. YOU MAY ALSO ASK FOR INFORMATION FOR MORE THAN ONE LINE AT A TIME. THE LINE NUMBER IS ON THE LEFT OF THE SCREEN. FOR EXAMPLE: A TITLE SEARCH FOR "HARD TIMES" MIGHT PRODUCE THIS DISPLAY: PAGE 1 2 MATCHES 0 SKIPPED (ALL DISPLAYED IN 1) 01 DICKENS, CHARLES HARD TIMES 1854 02 TERKEL, LOUIS HARD TIMES 1970 THE COMMAND DSL/1 ASKS FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE TITLE ON LINE 1 WHILE THE COMMAND DSL/1/2 ASKS FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT BOTH LINES 1 AND 2. IF YOUR SEARCH HAS PRODUCED MORE THAN 10 TITLES, YOU MUST ASK FOR ADDITIONAL PAGES OF MATCHES TO COMPLETELY SCAN THE LIST (THE COMPUTER DISPLAYS ONLY 10 MATCHES AT A TIME.) ENTERING THE FOLLOWING: PG2 WILL DISPLAY THE 2ND GROUP OF 10 MATCHES PG3 WILL DISPLAY THE 3RD GROUP OF 10 MATCHES PG+ WILL DISPLAY THE 4TH GROUP OF 10 MATCHES REPEAT THIS SEQUENCE, PG2, PG3, PG+ UNTIL YOU HAVE FOUND YOUR ITEM, THEN USE THE DETAILED SEARCH BY LINE (DSL/) TO DISPLAY THE DETAILED INFORMATION. To search other college libraries' LCS databases add one of the codes shown below to your search. You may only search one college at a time. EXAMPLES: (Looking for Tom Wolfe's book The Right Stuff from DePaul) Using ATS/, AUT/, TLS/, or SPS/ : TLS/RIGHSTUFF/DP Using DSC/ or DST/ DSC/629.1W855R,DP Do not use these words in LCS author and/or title searches (ATS/ AUT/ and TLS/): A Department House Of Un Alla Dept. How On U.N. 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