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New Titles @ UIUC: Descriptions and Quick Examples

This page goes over the interface for the New Titles page as well as gives examples of several common types of searches for the New Titles webpage.

Search Options

There are three search criteria for the New Titles List: libraries, call number ranges, and date added. The results of the search using these criteria can then be sorted by a fourth criteria.

Select Libraries and Select Call Numbers

Both the Select Library and Select Call Number sections have a checkbox at the top called "Include All". This checkbox will search all the choices in that section. Beneath the include all option are lists of choices you may wish to include. Click on the expand/collapse button to show the choices in an individual list.

Select Date

This is the date that the item was first available to the public. It may appear to be a day off as the new titles database is updated once a day in the morning. This means anything shelved that day is not likely to be added till the next morning. For example, if a title was shelved on July 13 of 2005 the new titles may not add it until July 14 of 2005.

The specific date range allows people to search for a date range such as all the new titles from on or after July 1, 2005 but before August 1, 2005. Notice that when you're specifying the end date, it is everything before that date. So in the previous example you won't get any titles added on August 1. Titles older than 2 months are periodically removed.

Select Sorting

Select sorting determines how the titles are ordered when they are returned.

Buttons

Review Your Selections

This button will expand any collapsed list that has a checked selection.

Clear All

This unchecks all checkboxes that have been selected.

Display Search Results

Returns a browsable list of new list items based on the criteria selected.

Create RSS Link

Create a link to a RSS feed that matches the criteria given.

Create HTML Link

Create a link to a page that matches the criteria given.

Examples

Example 1: Browsing new title added to a particular library

Let's say an English major named K. Sharp is interested in what new books are at the English Library. She checks for new books every week or so and decides to search just the English Library for books in the past week.

Result:
These criteria will return all the titles within the English Library added in the past 7 days, sorted by call number order.
Example 2: Browsing new titles added to a specific call number range within a library

Bob is interested in the systems aspects of librarianship. He selects both Library & Information Science and the call number 000 Computer Science in order to get all the new books in the Library and Information Science Library that are shelved in the 000's.

Result:
These criteria will return all the titles within the Library and Information Science added in the past 14 days that fall within the call number range 000-009, sorted by call number order.
Example 3: Browsing multiple call number ranges within multiple libraries

An information scientist wants to track books that are new to either the Library and Information Science or Grainger Engineering Library. Most of the books he reads either fall within 000-009 or the 600-609 ranges.

Result:
These criteria will return all the titles within the Library and Information Science and Grainger Engineering Library added in the past 14 days that fall within the call number range 000-009 or the call number range 600-609, sorted by call number order.
Example 4: Browsing through books added during a specific date

Bill hasn't checked to see what new books have been added to the Chemistry Library for a while. He knows that he last checked the list sometime in June, so decides he wants to see all the new books added since the first of July to the end of the month. He selects Specific date range, setting the "on or after" to 1 Jul 2005 and the "but before" to 1 Aug 2005.

Result:
These criteria will return all the titles within the Chemistry Library for the month of July, sorted by call number order.
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Updated on: Friday, 22-Jul-2005 16:01:30 CDT jtg