Searching SIRSI Unicorn: Title Searching

Scope

• You use the Title Search to search for titles in the library in general.
• Booleans, nesting, and proximity operators can be used.
• This is an exact search, but you can enter significant (non-stopwords, non-logical operators) words of the title in any order. Omit 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:

  old man sea	Produces: "The Old Man and the Sea"
  man sea old	Produces: "The Old Man and the Sea"
  old man zircon	Takes you to the Title Index at "old man ...."
  man sea zircon	Takes you to the Title Index at "man old ...."

Viewing records resulting from a search

• A search with the correct title words retrieve a list of catalog records containing the title words, usually titles in the MARC 245 title field.
• The number of records in the search results list matching each heading is shown in brackets to the right of the heading.
• To view 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.

Searching for Periodical Titles

• You can use the Title Search as well as the Periodical Title Search to specifically search for journal, magazine, newspaper, newsletter, and other Periodical Titles in the library.
• Unfortunately, the Title Search will bring up a lot of other titles (books, videos, etc) that contain the words in the periodical Title.
• Thus, it is generally better to use the Periodical Title Search when trying to find out what journals and issues that library has.

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