ROARing CAT (Rochester Area Regional Catalog)
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To locate ROARing CAT on Wally click on Electronic Resources
when you first enter the homepage. There you will see the heading
for ROARing CAT.
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The ROARing Cat is a union catalog of the holdings in over
400 libraries throughout the five-county Rochester Regional
Library Council area. These libraries include:
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- All academic libraries
- All large hospital libraries
- Some corporate libraries
- Public libraries in the Pioneer Library System (including
Wayne, Ontario, Livingston and Wyoming counties)
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Why use ROARing Cat?
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Use ROARing Cat to locate materials not a part of RIT's
RIT Library Collection. Also, since RIT Library's holdings
are included in the database (although not totally current),
ROARing Cat can be used as a "back-up" in case the Einstein
catalog is ever down.
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How to get Help
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Help is always available by clicking on the "Get Help!"
button at the bottom of the search page.
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How to use ROARing CAT
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Easy Search Options
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VIEW CATALOG: Searches alphabetically for the word
or words entered. This is helpful when you may not know
exactly how to spell a particular word or are looking for
a word that may have various endings. You may scroll
through the catalog to find a specific item by clicking
[Lynx users press <enter>] the "Page down" button
at the bottom of the list of items.
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Example: A search for SHAKES will provide a
list of words beginning with SHAKES. By scrolling down
you will eventually get to Shakespeare and beyond.
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Shakes
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Shakesby
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Shakespeare
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FIND ANYTHING: Searches everything in ROARing Cat
and will search for an exact match to the words entered.
Terms are searched as an exact phrase and if nothing is
found, in reverse phrase order.
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Examples:
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Theatre
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Shakespeare
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Romeo and Juliet
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Pilgrim's Progress
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Advanced Search Options
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There are 3 search types -- alphabetical, phrase, keywords
-- and 7 search modes -- author, title, subject, author
and title, author and subject, title and subject, and word
or phrase -- which can be combined to search ROARing CAT.
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ALPHABETICAL SEARCH: You may search alphabetically
by author, title, subject, author and title, author and
subject, title and subject, and word or phrase.
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Examples:
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To find Pilgrim's Progress alphabetically as
a title:
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FIND Pilgrim's Progress as Alphabetical
by Title.
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To find Stephen King alphabetically as an author:
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FIND King, Stephen as Alphabetical
by Author.
[Author's name can be entered with or without the
comma, but last name must be first.]
You may set the number of items per page that will be
displayed, and you may continue to scroll alphabetically
through the catalog by clicking on or selecting the Page
down button at the bottom of the listing.
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PHRASE SEARCH: You may search for an exact phrase
either by author, title, subject, author and title, author
and subject, title and subject, and word or phrase. Do
not use punctuation. Phrase search first looks for an
exact match, and if nothing is found, reverses the phrase.
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IMPORTANT NOTE: You can set the number of records to be
retrieved. Unlike an alphabetical search, phrase search
and keyword search do not allow scrolling through the catalog.
(The more records retrieved, the longer the search will
take.)
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Examples:
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To find the phrase civil war diaries anywhere
in the catalog:
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FIND civil war diaries as Phrase
by Word or Phrase.
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To find the titles or subjects on Adirondack canoeing:
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FIND Adirondack canoeing as Phrase
by Title or Subject.
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[The phrase "Adirondack canoeing" is not in the catalog
as a title or subject, so the phrase is automatically
reversed.]
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BOOLEAN OPERATORS in PHRASE SEARCH: In phrase search
you may do simple Boolean searches (not nested Boolean)
using Boolean operators (and, or, not).
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Examples:
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To find subjects about trains or railroads:
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FIND trains or railroads as Phrase
by Subject.
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To find titles with the word apple but not macintosh
or computers:
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FIND apple not macintosh not computers
as Phrase by Title.
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KEYWORD SEARCH: You may search for a word or words
in author, title, subject, author and title, author and
subject, title and subject, and word or phrase mode. The
search will automatically use the Boolean operator "and"
if more than one word is entered.
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IMPORTANT NOTE: You can set the number of records to be
retrieved. Unlike an alphabetical search, phrase search
and keyword search do not allow scrolling through the catalog.
(The more records retrieved, the longer the search will
take.)
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Examples:
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To find Rochester fiction as a subject:
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FIND Rochester fiction by Keyword
as Subject.
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Viewing the Record
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Once you receive a list of records you may view any by
clicking on that item [Lynx users hit <enter>.] A
brief record will be displayed with holdings locations.
You may view the MARC record by clicking [or selecting,
for Lynx users] the MARC Display button at the top of the
screen.
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NlightN Search
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You may continue your search in NlightN, which searches
a variety of proprietary and free databases, including WWW
sites. To carry your search to NlightN, click or select
the NlightN button at the top of the page.
Help contact: RIT Library Reference Desk 716-475-2563 (voice
or TTY)
Compiled by RRLC (edited by Sarah Reynolds)
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