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LLC: Effective Practice Guide

Supporting Effective Practice in our Library Learning Commons in SD57

Note: Searching DLC Collection

Note: Use our DLC Bookings catalogue to search for and request to borrow DLC resources. The Enterprise search of the DLC collection a) will not let you order and b) will display everything as available all of the time (which is not true!).

Searching Your Library

1. Go to the DLC portal.

2. Click on the dropdown menu to select your school. They are in alphabetical order. Selecting All Library Collections will search all of the libraries at once. NOTE: The search bar at the top will search the DLC catalog for bookable kits, streaming videos, novels and more.

Note: Use our DLC Bookings catalogue to search for and request to borrow DLC resources. The Enterprise search of the DLC collection a) will not let you order and b) will display everything as available all of the time (which is not true!).

3. Type in your search terms in the keyword search and click Search or press Enter. Multiple editions of the same title will be grouped together. Click on the grouping to see the individual titles and open their detailed view.

Example search results:

Narrowing Searches, Detailed View, Explore Tab

You can limit your results by changing your search terms or using the limiters on the left side. Click the checkbox beside a limiter and then either Include or Exclude. Include will only show your results where the limiter applies (ex. if you include the format Books, it will only show you Books) and Exclude will exclude limiters from your search (ex. if you exclude the format Books, it will show you all of the formats except Books).

Click on a title to open up the detailed view as a popup. Here, you can see ISBN, subject headings, language, series, publisher, etc. You can also see which schools have this item in their collection. The Status beside each will tell you where the item is located: when it is checked out, you will see the date it is due back.

Some titles have catalogue enrichments, such as a table of contents, tags, professional reviews, etc. provided by Syndetics Unbound, on an Explore tab beside the District Availability.