Guide to the Smallbone Library and its services: Searching the Library catalogue and reserving items

Basic searching

This video shows you how to do a general search for an item on Heritage, our online catalogue, and explains what information the catalogue gives you about that item. It covers general searching, using links to authors, subjects and keywords and briefly touches on limiting your search to a particular section of the Library (e.g. talking books).

The main focus of this video is fiction items. If you are reasonably confident with general searching but want to be able to refine your search technique, and especially if you are looking for non-fiction items, you should watch the Advanced Searching video below this one.

You will need to log in using your school email address and password to view the video. If you have problems with the embedded video here is the direct link to the video in Stream. Mac users using Safari should check the notice to the right.

Advanced searching

This video shows you how to do an advanced search for an item on Heritage, our online catalogue. It is particularly (but not exclusively) focused on non-fiction items and covers:

• Using * to stand for a number of unknown letters
• Limiting a search to particular locations in the Library
• Using the Boolean operators AND, OR and AND NOT
• Using ? to stand for a single unknown letter

If you are uncertain about general searching on the catalogue, you should watch the Basic Catalogue Seaching video above first.

You will need to log in using your school email address and password to view the video. If you have problems with the embedded video here is the direct link to the video in Stream. Mac users using Safari should read the notice to the right.

The video below shows you how to reserve a book on Heritage, our Library catalogue. Students who are allowed into the Library can also ask us at the issue desk if you would like us to reserve an item for you. Please contact us if you have any issues or queries.

You will need to log in using your school email address and password to view the video. If you have problems with the embedded video here is the direct link to the video in Stream. Mac users using Safari should read the notice to the right.