Sentences with phrase «search library catalogues»

Facebook applications include: to - do lists, calendars, file and link sharing, instant messaging, social bookmarking tools (i.e. del.icio.us), RSS feed sharing (i.e. Google Reader), and even the ability to search library catalogues.

We saw the value of accessing Scribd content categorized by the user who uploaded it, which is analogous to searching a library catalogue or database for other secondary material written by an author of a specific resource we found useful.

On a teachable moment opportunity: I often used Internet defamation as a teaching example in teaching students how to effectively search the Index to Canadian Legal Literature (ICLL) online (the example also works well in searching a library catalogue using Library of Congress Subject Headings).

Not exact matches

Most bookstores require an ISBN, and library catalogues and search engines prefer them.

With physical books, access to books can be impeded by three barriers: archiving (physical books are expensive to preserve); indexing / search (even where catalogues are available online, searching for relevant books on a given topic can be difficult, and many books are not yet indexed); and obtaining books (once you find a book you think you want, you may need to buy it, borrow it or, if you have access to a library with the right relationships, attempt to order it via interlibrary loan).

Set - up is free with a library card from any OverDrive - powered library, and through an integrated catalogue, booklovers can search for the title they want, and depending on the title, choose to either borrow or buy.

I pick through my own collection, searching for suitable stories, and ordering books directly from the library catalogue online.

I would search catalogues from other larger libraries, search the legal literature indices (usually on Quicklaw) and, depending on the time frame, either provide a list of cites or track down the items themselves from outside libraries.

This is a reference to searching in library card catalogues but it's true that, along with all of its faults, the card catalogue also provided library users with a reasonable representation of the information space and their place within it.

[late addition: sorry, most of the links above will take you to a message about the session being «timed out» — they were links to searches I did of the U of A catalogue, showing the holdings of the law library.]

In other words, Google says that being able to search books on its site — which it describes as the equivalent of a giant library card catalogue — is not the same as making the books themselves available.

Discovery services are independent of the library's catalogue software; the idea is that the library catalogue is just one of the databases being searched.

None of the CLIC material is now online, I think, so I searched through the UVic law library catalogue.

Alternatively, if your library doesn't own the print title needed or if you don't find them in the above databases, you can identify other library holdings of Haitian legal materials in print and electronic format by checking catalogs such as Open WorldCat, AMICUS (choose «entire AMICUS database» to search through all Canadian library collections, including the e-content), CCfr (Catalogue collectif de France), Gallica (the Bibliothèque nationale de France's digital collection), and COPAC (British and Irish university libraries).