Simple Search (Offline library intranet)
The Nirmala College Library uses the
Libsoft Integrated Library System
for book searching. Here is a detailed guide for users to search for books
effectively:
1. Launch Application: Double-click the Libsoft icon to open the application.
2. Login Credentials:
- Username: "user"
- Password: Leave blank
- Click the "OK" button
to proceed.
3. Confirmation Window: Upon logging
in, a pop-up window will appear. Click
the "OK" button on this window to continue.
4. Search Interface:
- In the search interface, use the "Look For" box to enter the required keyword(s) and click the SEARCH Button
- Use the star symbol (*) for multiple keyword combinations in your search.
5. Book Availability: If the book is
available, note down the call number
provided by the system for that particular book.
6. Locate Book:
- Proceed to the designated racks within the library.
- Use the call number to locate the book.
- Refer to the subject location
board near the circulation counter for assistance in finding the book's
section.
Document Select Box
Document Select Box is used for
selecting the document for which you are going to retrieve the information.
Default selection is the Book. You can select any other by just clicking on the
button. A pull down menu will appear and you can select from it.
You can select Book, Member, Issue,
reservation, Journal, Indexing, and Multimedia. On selecting the document the
fields in the “Field Name” will change to the fields of the document you
selected.
Field Name Select Box
Select a field name here. The default field name will be ‘All’, which
means that all fields selected. All the fields we enter in the Book Accession
are listed here. Using the scroll button we can scroll to the appropriate field
and select that field which we are using to search.
The
fields for searching are listed when you select the document. Fields to each
document will be listed in the Field Name when we select that document. Field
name will change according to the document we select. If any field of a
particular document is not listed you can type it there.
Operator Select Box
You must select an operator here. There
are 7 operators listed here. The default operator is ‘Like’. Other operators
are
“=” :
Is Equal to
“<
>” : Is not equal to
“>=
“ : Is greater than or equal to
“<”
: Is less than
“<
=” : Is less than or equal to
‘Like’ operator is used to display
similar words or like things which are given for searching.
Look for Text Box
What you are searching must be added
here. You can replace space, character or a group of characters with the
asterisk (*) symbol here. You can use more than one Asterisk (*) symbol in one
search item. For eg: Searching for “Modern English Literature” book can be
entered like this “Mod*eng*lit*” will display the text if it is present.
Searching for Malayalam text “Nalukettu” can be entered like “*al*ketu” will
display the book.
N.B. You can use this facility if you
don’t know the spelling correctly of the author, title or any field of a book.
For displaying total book in the
computer select ‘Book’ in the Document, “All’ in the Field Name, ‘Like’ in the
Operator and Asterisks (*) in the Look For will display the total books that
had entered in ‘Libsoft’.
The
displayed search result can be sorted in ascending order or descending order in
respect to any field you select in the select box. Clicking the check button
before Asc/Desc will get it sorted ascending otherwise descending. The fields
available for sorting the results are Acc_No, Call_No, ISBN, Author, Title,
Subject, Series, Imprint, year, Supplier, Bill_No, Date_Release.
Boolean Search The Boolean Search does searching based
on more than one condition. Just clicking on the BOOLEAN command button, you
can change from Simple search to Boolean search. The window will change as
shown below and the Boolean command button will turn to a simple command
button.
Logical operator select box is used to
select a logical operator. Three logical operators are given AND, OR and AND
NOT.AND Operator: If AND operator is used
only those results are displayed when the two conditions are true (Simple and
Boolean)OR Operator: IF OR operator is used if any of the
conditions becomes true the results get displayed.AND
NOT Operator: If this operator is used the first condition must be true and the
second condition must be false satisfying this condition the result gets
displayed.
Operator
This
is same as the Simple Search Operator. Select appropriate operator from the
list. The default will be “Like”.
Look for
This
is same as that of the Simple Search. You can follow the same rule as that of
the Simple Search. You can use as asterisks (*) here also.
Search
This command button is used to start
the searching. Giving the conditions and clicking on the button SEARCH the
system starts searching for the records according to the condition given in
LOOK FOR. After entering the conditions in ‘Simple’ and ‘Boolean’ or Simple
search just click on the search button or press the enter key, this will
activate the search.
NB: You cannot execute a Boolean search
with giving conditions only in the Simple Search Look For.
Detailed View
This button is used to view the details
of the book as shown below. All details of the book will appear in the window
with the ‘OK’ and ‘CANCEL’ button. Clicking on the ‘OK’ will move to the next
record and its details will be displayed. Cancel will cancel the window. Seeing
the details of a particular record select that record and click on detailed
view.
Displayed record number will be
displayed at the top of the window. All fields will be displayed like this.
Fields with null values will not be displayed.
