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Home  >  Teach yourself skills  >  Library and research skills  >  Catalogue search skills

Advanced search skills

Advanced search 

gives you more options for searching. You can:

  • Search by material type, e.g. DVDs, sheet music 
  • Search by language, e.g. Chinese.
  • Search by location, e.g. Avondale

How to limit - type in the title or any search term and choose any of the following:

  • Material type

    - click on the arrow to choose DVD, Large print, Audio CD or any other material type.
  • Location

    - click the arrow to choose your Community Library or Children's collection, for example, 'Onehunga' for everything Onehunga has or 'Onehunga Children's' for their children's fiction and non-fiction collections only.
  • 'Only Show What's In'

    - click in the box beside this to only show you titles that are currently on the shelves for you to borrow

The Advanced search page within the catalogue provides further search tips for advanced searchers.


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