The following materials may be used in training staff and students on the use of WebCat. The slides are available in PowerPoint for small groups or as a self-tutorial presentation. A hard copy of these presentations, along with a disk, have been sent to each librarian, along with instructions on the basics of displaying and navigating through a PowerPoint presentation. See a member of the Development Team if further information is needed.

1. Using WebCat: The Anchorage School District Library Catalog.
2. Unicorn Ecole: Library Catalog for the Anchorage School District.

Using WebCat:
The Anchorage School District Library Catalog

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Unicorn Ecole:
Library Catalog for the Anchorage School District.

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The new library catalog is accessed through a web browser. You can access it from any computer on the school district network, or from home. Students without internet approval may be allowed to access the catalog only. Students who wish to leave the catalog for other parts of the internet, must display their ID card.

TEACHERS: Students without internet approval may be allowed to access the catalog but will not be able to visit other sites. Monitoring of students without approval is going to be necessary.
Students who wish to access other parts of the internet must display their ID card.
More eyes will be needed to monitor students use of the computers since all of the computers can access the internet. We must hold the students responsible for appropriate use.

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The first screen you get to is the CATALOG screen.
You may make a QUICK SEARCH, the default - this allows you to type in a search term or two
Or you may switch to a COMPLEX SEARCH. - This allows you to search by combinations of several entries.
Eg. A word in the title along with a subject heading along with an author
The boolean operators AND, OR, and NOT may be used to narrow or widen the search.

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Keyword - looks for the presence of the word anywhere in the field.

Browse - gives you an alphabetical listing beginning with the word you choose
This is good for title or author or subject searching.

Exact - if you know an exact title or author you are looking for. Not a very useful tool in our catalog.

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When you have entered your search term(s) you must specify where you want the program to search.
EVERYTHING - is every field in the database
SERIES - eg. Dragonlance, sports hero's etc.

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Request: For Inter Library Loan or to place a hold on a book. Please ask the library staff.

Prefs: Minor adjustments for the viewing screen. Not for you

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In this section you can access directly some databases that are very useful for research.
WWW accesses other library catalogs outside of the School District.
In order to use these, students must display their ID card.

TEACHERS: Please instruct your students (and remind them) to take notes from the internet to ClarisWorks. (Copy and Paste) They need to be discriminating in their choice of material if they want to print it. Pictures should be chosen sparingly.

Newsbank is available from any computer networked. Www.infoweb.newsbank.com username: 2096 password: 2096
Students can also access from home ra-2096
Once the password has been used on a computer it will remember it.

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You can get basic information about the library and happenings here.

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If you want to find out what you have checked out, this is where you look. You may change your PIN number here so others may not see what you have.

To return to Library Resources Home Page, click on the library logo:

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Last update: 02/21/01 //s. hutchison