Searching SIRSI Unicorn: Series Searching

Definition

• You use the Series Search to search for books or other media that are issued as a member of a series of publications, though not necessarily on a periodical basis.
• Examples:
  • The "Dune" novels are a "series" of novels.
  • The "Internet Workshop" series of books are a non-sequential, non-periodical group of books that all address some aspect of Internet instruction.
• Items that have an entry in the MARC series field (400) usually have a name for the series.

Definition

• Booleans, nesting, and proximity operators can be used.
• You can enter significant (non-stopwords, non-logical operators) words of the title in any order without beginning articles such as: a, an, the, le, l', la.
• If any of those "significant" words is not in a single record, you will be taken to a title index to browse for the correct name. For example:

  internet	Produces 10 records
  internet work	Takes you to a list of serial titles.
  internet workshop	Produces 8 records, all from the "Internet Workshop"

Viewing records resulting from a search

• A search with the correct title words retrieve one record or a list of catalog records containing the series words, usually ones in the MARC 400 series field.
• The number of records in the search results list matching each heading is shown in brackets to the right of the heading.
• To go previous or succeeding parts of the list, press the respective forward or backward button.
• To view an individual record or shorter list of records for a particular heading, simply click on the heading, then click on the view button for the item you wish to see.