School of Information of Information Management and Systems
University of California, Berkeley
SIMS202: Information Organization and Retrieval
 Ray R. Larson -- Marti Hearst
Fall 1997
 
Online Worksheet #1: MELVYL Search Exercise
 

Do the following searches on MELVYL and display the results. You can display the search results in different forms. Try the following forms of display for some of these searches. (The DISPLAY command can be abbreviated as DIS or D):


Your Name:

F ISBN 0872879674 - What is the title?

 


F LCCN 91-24851 - Does this and the following searches get the same record?

 


F XT INTRODUCTION TO CATALOGING AND CLASSIFICATION AND DATE RECENT -
How many? What sort of differences between these?
 


F DLA ID 7475308 - Same?
 


F PA WYNAR, BOHDAN S AND DATE RECENT - How many?

 


F TW CATALOGING CLASSIFICATION INTRODUCTION - How many?
Can you find the same book without scanning through all the results?

 


F SE LIBRARY SCIENCE TEXT SERIES - How many?
Is the same book in here? What do all these have in common?
 


F TITLE WORD HEROICKE - Try (especially) D 9 LONG
What sort of things are these? Look especially at the long and MARC displays



F TW LOTUS - How many? Then enter command AND FORM MRDF and
look at results - what do these have in common? (Type EXPLAIN FORM for more information.)