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Oxford Public Library logo. Color brick background: How to OPAC! https://oxfordpl.booksys.net/opac/opl/index.html#menuHome  Orange Cartoon book, with small glasses and paper tabs with a happy expression. How do I search for an item in the library's collection? OPAC (Online Public Access Computer system) On the top left of the OPAC site, you will see a search box like this. Orange arrow pointing to an example of a search bar, with a type box, go, and yellow buttons for advanced, combo and media searches. You may enter in your query into the box, and press enter. This will perform a broad search that may find what you need. (The color of the box may change.) Beige Cartoon book with paper tabs, and sheepish look on its face. There are three buttons below the text entry field. Advanced -- This will allow you to search by specific fields, such as Title, Author, Series Title, Subject, Copyright, or ISBN. Combo -- This will allow you to quickly search multiple fields: Title, Author, and Subject. Media -- This will allow you to quickly search for a particular type of item: Audiobooks, AVJ, CD, DVD, and eBook.
Oxford Public Library logo. Color brick background: How to OPAC! Purple Cartoon book, with a pink bookmark and a happy expression.  For more advanced searching, you may click on the tabs just below the search box. Orange arrow pointing to an example of a search bar, with a type box, go, and yellow buttons for advanced, combo and media searches. The Search tab allows the above searches, plus three other options: Study Programs -- This allows you to search our children's collection for items that have been classified as AR (Accelerated Reader). The AR information in each book will tell you the AR level and the points level. Visual Search -- This allows you a different way to search for a type of  item. Please take note that there are two searches here that you won't find elsewhere: Readers -- These books are designed just for those learning how to read. These are great for pre-schoolers or young grades. Recent Additions -- You can search the items added to the  library in the last 90 days. Award Winners -- These will search specifically for award winners. The awards featured are Newbery, Caldecott, and National Book Awards. Search results. When you use one of the above methods to search OPL's online catalog, you will see a search results page like this one: Green Arrow pointing to a green box, an example of the Opace website, with Book covers and description of those books. https://oxfordpl.booksys.net/opac/opl/index.html#menuHome
Oxford Public Library logo. Color brick background: How to OPAC! Yellow Cartoon book, with a red bookmark and glasses with a happy expression pointing to the right. You can tell much about the search results from right here. First off, the image shows that a simple keyword search for Harry Potter shows 37 results. These results may be sorted by Title, Author, Copyright, or Call Number by clicking on one of those selections towards the top of the page. (NOTE: To sort in series order, perform the search again as an Advanced Search, and select Series Title. The results will automatically populate in series order.) You may also narrow your search results on the left of the page. Click on the Search Within box to perform a more narrow search within the already existing search. You may also want to narrow only to the audiobooks in OPL's collection. Simply select Audiobooks inside the Material Type box. You can see immediately that of the first five results shown here, four of them are currently in the library waiting for you to come check them out. This indicator is to the right of each item's title. Clicking on the one item that is checked out will show you the Full Details Screen. It has three tabs across the top. Each of those tabs are shown below. Three Orange arrows pointing to description boxes that you will find on the OPAC system. https://oxfordpl.booksys.net/opac/opl/index.html#menuHomeOxford Public Library logo. Color brick background: How to OPAC! Yellow Cartoon book, with a red bookmark and glasses with a happy expression pointing to the right. You can tell much about the search results from right here. First off, the image shows that a simple keyword search for Harry Potter shows 37 results. These results may be sorted by Title, Author, Copyright, or Call Number by clicking on one of those selections towards the top of the page. (NOTE: To sort in series order, perform the search again as an Advanced Search, and select Series Title. The results will automatically populate in series order.) You may also narrow your search results on the left of the page. Click on the Search Within box to perform a more narrow search within the already existing search. You may also want to narrow only to the audiobooks in OPL's collection. Simply select Audiobooks inside the Material Type box. You can see immediately that of the first five results shown here, four of them are currently in the library waiting for you to come check them out. This indicator is to the right of each item's title. Clicking on the one item that is checked out will show you the Full Details Screen. It has three tabs across the top. Each of those tabs are shown below. Three Orange arrows pointing to description boxes that you will find on the OPAC system. https://oxfordpl.booksys.net/opac/opl/index.html#menuHome
Oxford Public Library logo. Color brick background: How to OPAC! Description boxes you will find on the OPAC website. Two orange arrows pointing to thos boxes. Each of these tabs holds very useful information. The one that is most useful to most patrons is the Holdings tab. Using this tab, you will see how many copies of this item is in the library's collection, and when each of them is due back. (Note that there may be more items with the same title, but paperbacks are a different item than the hardcover version.) Also on the Holdings tab, you may click on the Reserve button at the top to reserve this item. When it checks in, the library will hold it for you at the front desk. As always, if you have any problems or questions, please contact the OPL staff. We are always glad to help! Picture of a boy standing on a book, while a dragon hovers in space over a Fairytale book. A floating castle in the sky among the clouds is in the background. https://oxfordpl.booksys.net/opac/opl/index.html#menuHome
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