The New Caroline allows you to:


• Search for titles and items in the EIN catalog and in other catalog databases
• Look at item holdings information of each of the EIN participating libraries
• Use hypertext links to look at similar works
• Search for and display journal and periodical information
• Place holds on materials
• Display your borrower information to see what you have checked-out, and
  if you owe any fines, and if you have any materials on hold or request.
• Access text, image, sound and video files locally or across the Internet.

Searches can be conducted on Caroline, the library catalog, EIN Periodical databases, and other library databases. Caroline allows you to search by Author, Title, Subject, Keyword, Call Number, ISSN, ISBN, LCCN and other library numbers. Clicking on the appropriate search type button will link you to a search page with a dialog box. After you type in your search in the box and click on the search button, the results display in a list of highlighted matches or links. From there you may choose a link, click on it, and connect to the specific record details such as citation, holdings, and full text information.

Things to know:



• Caroline is not case-sensitive.
  
• Punctuation is ignored; therefore, you do not have to include it within the search.
  
• Author, Subject, Title and Numeric searching is automatically right-truncated, which means that if you do an author search on Heming the return list will include Hemingway. Or if you do a title search on Cat, the return title list will include Cat, Cataclysms, Catacomb, Catlan etc.
• When doing a Title search, do not include the initial articles. For example,
  the novel The Firm should just be searched for as Firm .

Web pages are displayed and viewed on computer screens through software called Web browsers. There are several types of Web browser software but most of them perform similar functions. The most popular types of browsers are Microsoft Explorer, Mosiac, and Netscape. Most of the computers connected to the EIN use Netscape. The instructions below assume that you are using Netscape. However, the functionality described below will work using Mosiac and Explorer.

If you are using a dial-in connection you are using Lynx, the text based Web browser. Information about using Lynx will be available in the near future.

To Begin:
Slide the mouse gently around the pad to move the arrow around the screen. (This arrow is also called the cursor.)

When the arrow changes to a pointing finger , it is pointing at a "link" to an information source.

With the pointing finger on the link, press the left button on the mouse one time.

This is called "clicking" the mouse button

Once a link is activated, the pointer will change into an hourglass , this shows you that the system is making a hypertext connection to another page or Web site.

To return or go back to a previous screen:

Click on the browser's button near the upper left-hand corner of the screen.

To span multiple screens:

Place the arrow pointer on the vertical bar at the right side of the screen. Next, hold down the left mouse button. While holding it down, "drag" the vertical bar toward the top of the screen. You will see the page move up. Release the mouse button where you want to stop the page.

To move up or down one line at a time, click once on the up or down pointing arrows above or below the vertical bar. Or use the up or down arrow keys on the keyboard.

To get back to the home page or screen:

Click once on the browser's button near the upper left-hand corner of the screen.

Navigating This Page

Some of the pages in Caroline have a button called "Navigating This Page." When activated this link provides detailed descriptions of how each button or link on that page works. For more detailed information on how to search the catalog, you should use the "St. Bernard Help" button that will link you back here to the main help pages. And of course, you should ask a librarian if you need more help. They are here to help you.

Author, Subject, or Title Searching:

1. Click on the Caroline icon or button to link to the catalog.

2. Click on the Author, Title, or Subject icon on the resulting search page

3. Click inside the dialog box to activate the cursor and type in the search terms.

[When doing a Title search, do not include the initial articles. For example,
the novel The Firm should just be searched for as Firm . ]

4. If desired, limit by Type of Materials or by Language by clicking on the down-arrow in the boxes under the search.

5. Click on the Search Button.

• The status bar at the bottom of the screen flashes a message that the host or server is being contacted. As the search progresses, additional messages appear in the status bar. When the search is complete, the message in the status bar reads: "Document Done".
• If there are no records for the search, a message reports that there were no results.

Hit Lists and the Brief Record

• If more than one record matches the search, the search term(s) will display at the top of a list of highlighted titles that  make up the Primary Hit List.
• If the search results include more than twenty-five hits, a hypertext link "(next)" appears at the bottom of the page.
• If the search results include only one record, the title displays in the Brief Record format rather than the Hit List format.

Click on a highlighted title in the Primary Hit List.

• The heading from the Primary Hit List displays at the top of the Secondary Hit List which is made up of Brief Records.
• If activated, Holdings information displays under each Brief Record, including call number, material, and the status of the item.

The Full Record

Click on the Brief Record, (all of which is highlighted and makes up a single hypertext link to the Full Record.)

•  The initial title heading displays at the top of the Full Record.
•  Additional hypertext links in the full record activate new searches for the highlighted text.

Keyword Searching

Searching Rules:

1 . Click on the Search the Catalog link.

2 . Click on the Search by Other Number link on the resulting search page.

3 . Click on the dialog box to activate the cursor and type in the number in the format recommended on the screen.

4 . Indicate what type of number it is by clicking the appropriate white circle.