Koha-Library-Management-System/C2/OPAC/English

Time	Narration
00:01	Welcome to the Spoken Tutorial on How to use OPAC.
00:06	In this tutorial, we will learn: how to find an item using Search
00:13	and find an item using Advance Search.
00:18	To record this tutorial, I am using Ubuntu Linux OS 16.04 and Koha version 16.05
00:32	To follow this tutorial, you should have knowledge of Library Science.
00:38	To practice this tutorial, You should have Koha installed on your system.
00:44	And, You should also have admin access in Koha.
00:49	If not, please refer to the Koha Spoken Tutorial series on this website.
00:56	To begin with, I have added 2 more books on Microbiology.
01:02	One with author as Powar and Daginawala and another with author as Heritage.
01:12	This makes it a total of 3 books in my library.
01:17	Before going ahead, please add 2 more books of your choice into your library as has been explained in an earlier tutorial.
01:27	Open your Web Browser and type: 127.0.1.1/8000
01:39	This URL is based on- the port number and domain name given at the time of installation.
01:47	Please type as per what you had mentioned. Now, press Enter.
01:54	The homepage Welcome to Spoken Tutorial Library opens.
02:00	On the top left side from the Library catalog, drop down, we can search by the following options:
02:09	Title, Author , Subject, ISBN , Series and Call number.
02:22	And in the right side field I will type Microbiology here and click on Go at the right side of the field.
02:33	All the Library items having the word Microbiology, are listed in the results.
02:40	The listed items with the search word, can be further sorted as per the user’s choice.
02:47	To do so, go to the right side of the list and click on the tab Relevance.
02:54	From the drop-down, I will select Author (A-Z).
03:00	You may choose any other relevant option as per your requirement.
03:06	Upon selecting Author (A-Z), a list of Authors is displayed in alphabetic order.
03:14	Look below the title of the listed items. Here, we can see the availability of that particular item across all the libraries.
03:26	So, how can we improve our search for even better results?
03:31	We can do so by clicking on the ‘Refine Your Search' tab on the extreme left.
03:38	Then go to the various tabs under sections like: Availability, Authors, Item Types and Topics.
03:52	Now, let us see what to do in case the required material is not found with a general search.
04:01	On the Search Catalog page, click on the link Advanced Search.
04:07	A new page with the title Search for opens up.
04:13	Using the multiple drop-down options, we can refine our search for our required material.
04:21	From the first drop-down on the left side, select the appropriate option such as: Keyword, Subject , Title , Author , Publisher, Publisher Location, ISBN and Barcode.
04:40	I will select Subject. And in the right side field, type the details of the option selected from the left side drop-down.
04:51	I will type Microbiology here.
04:55	Using the second drop-down option, I will select Author as Patel.
05:03	Using the third drop-down option, I will select Publisher as Pearson.
05:11	On the same page, notice the other options under the section Item Type-
05:18	Book, Reference and Serial
05:23	followed by options such as- Publication date range, Language and Sorting.
05:34	So, under the section Item Type, I will click on the radio button for Books.
05:41	I will leave the Publication date range as blank.
05:46	For the Language, select English from the drop-down.
05:52	Under the section Sorting, for Sort by: I will select Author (A-Z).
06:00	After filling all the details, click on Search at the bottom of the page.
06:07	This page will have a list of all items having the following: Subject as Microbiology,
06:16	Author as Patel Arvind H.,
06:20	Publisher as Pearson.
06:23	Now, let’s go back to the Advanced Search page and click on More Options button at the bottom of the section Search for:.
06:36	On doing so, the layout of the Advanced search page changes.
06:42	Once again, in the first drop-down, I will select Subject.
06:48	Then I will type Microbiology.
06:52	Now come to the second row of options.
06:56	In the first drop-down, I will keep the option “and” as it is.
07:03	And, in the drop-down to the right, I will select “Author”.
07:08	Then to the right of this, I will type “Patel”.
07:13	Next, come to the third row of options. In the first drop-down, I will select the option “or”.
07:22	And, in the drop-down to the right, I will select “Author”.
07:28	Then to the right of this, I will type“Heritage”.
07:33	If required, you can further expand the search using the search options under the section Item type or the rest of the options.
07:45	After filling in all the details, click on the Search button at the bottom of the section.
07:52	This is how we can search for items in the library using OPAC.
07:58	With this tutorial, you have now learnt how a user can easily search for a library item.
08:05	This brings us to the end of this tutorial.
08:08	Let us summarize. In this tutorial, we learnt to find an item using Search
08:17	and find an item using Advance Search.
08:22	For assignment- using keyword as Biology, search for the list of Journals in OPAC.
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09:03	This is Bella Tony from IIT Bombay, signing off. Thank you for joining.

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