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You may access the Media Catalog Search from here.
Quicklinks
You can perform a search by selecting options from one or more of the pulldown menus and pressing submit (i.e. the search terms entry box can be blank).
Words that are one or two characters long, and words that occur very frequently in English such as "the" and "have", are indexed only for Title, Titles by Series or Subject, and Series or Subject Browse searches. For all other search field types, these words will be ignored if you include them in the search terms.
Punctuation (-,.?/%^ etc.) is ignored and text on either side is treated as separate words, e.g. two step searches for two and step.
Entering letters plus an asterisk will search for all words beginning with those letters. For example, typing math* will match on all words beginning with math.
By default you are in simple search mode which returns only catalog items with all words listed. You can choose between a simple search and an advanced search using the search menu.
If it finds more than the limit you set, Medianet will provide a next button to display the next set of items.
HINT: If you change the limit options, press submit rather than the next button as submit starts the new search's display at the beginning whereas next skips over the number of entries already displayed.
When keyword is selected, each field visible in the title record except sound, color, country of origin, distributor and both producer fields will be searched for the text entered in the search terms entry box. If you wish to search for an item with a specific sound field specified, choose that sound from the sound type menu. Similarily to search for an item with a specific country field specified, choose that country from the country of origin menu. To search by distributor or producer, change the default of Keyword for this menu to Titles by Dis/Pro/Pub.
HINT: If Subject Browse is selected, the Media Format, Audience Level, Language, Sound Type and Country of origin menus are disregarded. To search only words in the subject terms, switch to Titles by Subject and enter as many subject words as are needed to narrow your search to a manageable size. If you know the exact subject term, it may be entered in double quotes for an exact match (e.g. "art history").
Standard search types Subject Browse or Series Browse limits the search to those fields but returns subject or series names rather than actual titles (a great way to browse).
Titles by Dis/Pro/Pub allows you to retrieve all titles with a Distributor, Producer, or Publisher whose name matches your search terms.
Additional search types such as Author Browse and Titles by Author may be present depending on your site's particular configuration. These choices behave like Subject Browse and Titles by Subject, except that the field being searched differs and search terms of words less than 3 characters are indexed (i.e. like Title searches). The hint about limit conditions noted above also applies to these fields.
If the search field is Subject Browse or Series Browse then Full display returns the subject heading or series heading followed by a list of its titles.
The Brief multi-pick and Full multi-pick options may be present depending on your site's particular configuration. (For details, see tutorial). Select one of the multi-pick options to make checkboxes display in the search results. Use the checkboxes to select multiple items to order. Then press at the bottom of the list to pick all checked items at once.
Choosing Brief or Full multi-pick changes the amount of detail as described above for Brief display and Full display.
Format abbreviations are printed in the brief title display, inside the brackets, after the title code in capital letters.
The following menus are database dependent and will only be displayed if each individual category is available.
Audience level abbreviations are printed at the end of the brief title display in capital letters.
This menu will only be displayed if there is more than one sound type available for the titles in the database.
This menu will only be displayed if there is more than one collection available for the titles in the database.
Menu choices followed by a "+" match on the indicated year and every year following it, up to and including the current year.
Hint: just enter * in the search terms entry box to list all titles added within the selected number of days.
This menu will only be displayed if mediagraphies have been defined.
This menu will only be displayed if there is more than one country available for the titles in the database.
Hints:
Rest the pointer over the icon to see the date the title was added to the collection. If the date does not show up, turn on ToolTips in your browser's preferences.
