Using the NEW MIRLYN

Documents Center

University of Michigan

October 2004

MIRLYNhttp://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/

Search Ann Arbor– Books, Periodicals, and Electronic Materials in

Library System, Bentley and Clements

Find Articles– Periodical Indexes

Find Other Library Catalogs– Catalogs of Independent Campus and Big 10

Libraries, EMU, Ann Arbor District, Business Administration, Law

MIRLYN Catalogshttp://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/

MIRLYN Signonhttp://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu

GUEST Signon is automatic.

VALIDATED Signon at first chance for:

Indexes, recalls, renewals, remote retrieval

Links to campus-licensed web products, saving searches

MIRLYN – Two Major Searcheshttp://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/

BASIC – browse or keyword;

ADVANCED – keyword in multiple fields (e.g. author, title)

MIRLYN – Basic Searchhttp://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/

Browse or keyword: author, title, subject, entire record, journal, call number

MIRLYN – Basic Search http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/

Browse Title

MIRLYN – Basic Search http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/

Click on Title for Search Result

MIRLYN – Basic Search http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/

Search results list location and call number. Click on Location for circulation and retrieval information.

MIRLYN – Basic Search http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/

If book is in Buhr Storage or North Campus, you can request delivery to the Graduate Library

Retrieving Bookshttp://mirlyn.web.lib.umich.edu

For the most part, you want to come to the library to retrieve the book in person

Graduate Library Stacks Directory

http://www.lib.umich.edu/navigator/gradstax.html

Circulation Periodhttp://www.lib.umich.edu/circ/

Length of circulation varies with library

Undergraduate = three weeks for everyone

Graduate = eight weeks if graduate student semester if faculty or T.A. three weeks if undergraduate

Books can be recalled after three weeks regardless

of initial circulation period

MIRLYN Subject Searchinghttp://mirlyn.web.lib.umich.edu

Subjects Use Library of Congress Subject Headings(Controlled vocabulary regardless of title)

MIRLYN Subject Searchinghttp://mirlyn.web.lib.umich.edu

LC Subject Country and Form Subdivisions

Country Subject Subdivisions

United States--Foreign Relations China--Foreign Relations Elections--Yugoslavia Elections--United States

Form Subdivisions

Elections--Bibliography Politicians -Biography Economics--Dictionaries

MIRLYN – Basic Search http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/

Typical Library of Congress subject browse search

MIRLYN – Basic Search http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/

Results provide a browsable list with all subject or geographic subdivisions

MIRLYN – Modifying Search http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/

Default list is alphabetically by title

You can sort the list (e.g. by date, format, author)

Use MODIFY to limit by language

MIRLYN – Modifying Search http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/

Use Modify Search to Only List English-language Titles

MIRLYN – Printing http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/

To print, save, or e-mail an INDIVIDUAL record, use your web browser or click on Print/Export/E-Mail button

MIRLYN – Printing http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/

To print, save, or e-mail search a list of results, either SELECT ALL (all boxes checked) or CHECK

INDIVIDUAL BOXES and add to BASKET

MIRLYN – Printing http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/

VIEW THE BASKET

MIRLYN – Printing http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/

In the VIEW BASKET mode, click on the Print/Export/Email button

MIRLYN – Printing http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/

Choose RECORD format;then PRINT, SAVE, or EMAIL.

Printing or saving with web browser doesn’t always work well.

MIRLYN – Basket http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/

You can add NEW search results to the Basket

To see what’s in the basket, click on the blue BASKET at the top

MIRLYN – Basket v. My Shelf http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/

Baskets for all searches can be printed or exported for current session only

You can save individual titles in baskets to MY SHELF for subsequent logons, the call numbers will NOT be saved.

MIRLYN – Saved Searches http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/

Your searches are automatically saved during your session.

Click on PREVIOUS SEARCHES to see them.

MIRLYN – Saved Searches http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/

Searches in one session can be combined (and OR or)

They can be saved permanently through ADD TO MY SAVED SEARCHES.

MIRLYN Keyword Searchinghttp://mirlyn.web.lib.umich.edu

Uses Boolean Logic

MIRLYN Keyword Searchinghttp://mirlyn.web.lib.umich.edu

http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/training/boolean.pdf

MIRLYN – Keyword Searching http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/

Keyword searching available in Basic Search for ONE field: all, author, title, subject, or journal name.

MIRLYN – Keyword Searching http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/

KEYWORD PROTOCOLS:

Phrases in quotation marks: “gender gap”

AND, OR, NOT russia not soviet

Truncation as * or ? wom*n or wom?n

cat? Or cat*

Within a few words: ! “security council” !5 resolution

MIRLYN – Keyword Searching http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/

“gender gap” is phrase; and = operator; vot* is truncated

MIRLYN – Keyword Searching http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/

Blair !5 Bush means blair within 5 words of Bush

MIRLYN – Keyword Searching http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/

Keyword (vietnam) and author (ellsberg) would identify titles when you don’t exactly remember; use resulting subject headings in record for similar materials

MIRLYN – Format Symbols http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/

Symbols in search results stand for format, e.g. book, journal, microform, CD-ROM, internet; internet items are hot-linked

MIRLYN – My Account http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/

Includes books checked out to you, recalls, holds, fines; allow you to renew books