Help - Search tips
- Annual reports, newsletters, bulletins
- Items in languages other than English
- Items in a particular format, for example, videos
- Talking books and captioned videos
- Items published in a particular year
- Newspapers
- Journals and magazines
Annual reports, newsletters, bulletins
To find items with very common titles, for example:
'Annual report', 'Bulletin', or 'Newsletter',
which are produced by organisations and government bodies:
use the Author /Title search.
Type the name of the organisation or government body in the exact order used by the Catalogue, for example:
Author : New South Wales Dept of School Education,
Business and Professional Women's Club of Sydney.
You can type keywords in the title box, for example:
Title: report
Annual report
Bulletin
If you do not know the exact current name of a government department or organisation, you can refer to The Australian Government Directory or ask at the information desk.
or , you can: do an Author (keywords) search to find the correct name, then repeat the Author /Title search. For further help check Selecting keywords
Items in languages other than English
First do a search, then in Results list click Limit/sort button.
Select your language.
TIPS:
To search by title, you can use either the for eign language title or the English translation/version, then limit by language.
To search by subject, use English language headings then limit by language.
Click Limit/sort items retrieved using above data button.
Items in a particular format, for example, videos
First do a search, then in Results list click Limit/sort button.
Select your format.
Click Limit/sort items retrieved using above data button.
Talking books and captioned videos
Talking books
Select Subject (keywords) search and type: talking books.
To then find talking books by a particular author, in Result list click Limit/sort button, and then Keywords in Author. Type word(s) in author's name.
Click Limit/sort items retrieved using above data button.
Captioned videos for the hearing impaired
Select Subject (keywords) search and type: video recordings for the
hearing impaired.
To then find captioned videos by a particular author, in Results list click Limit/sort button, and then Keywords in Title. Type word(s) in Title.
Then click Limit/sort items retrieved using above data button.
TIP:
You may also use the Keywords search and type: talking books and author name, for example:
talking books and Dick Francis.
or type: video recordings hearing impaired and title, for example:
Video recordings hearing impaired and Wiggles.
Items published in a particular year
First do a search, then in Results list click Limit/sort button. You can limit your results by year of publication or sort your results into date order:
Limit by year of publication
To limit your results lists by year, you need to fill out both boxes, for example:
To limit your results to items published after 1998:
To limit your results to items published in 1997:
Click Limit/sort items retrieved using above data button.
or sort results by year
Click sort results by year radio button to list your results in date order.
Newspapers
If you are looking for a newspaper from a particular place and do not know its title:
In Subject (keywords) type the place name, for example:
Mudgee
In Result list, click Limit/sort button. Select Newspapers from 'MATERIAL type' dropdown box.
Click Limit/sort items retrieved using above data button.
Journals and magazines
If you are looking for journals or magazines published by, for example, a specific organisation, or with a title that brings up many results:
First do a search, then in the result list click the Limit/sort button.
Select serials from the MATERIAL type dropdown box.
Click Limit/sort items retrieved using above data button.
