Find books and more!
1. Searching, finding, getting! (note: for getting need to explain locations)
Scenario 1 (demo): finding things on green marketing
*point out the usual things
*point out there is a subject heading facet for green marketing (refines search)
(we’ll do more on the facets in scenario 8)
Scenario2 (students): how are businesses becoming greener?
*Follow-up: broaden the search with subjects that you find
Scenario 3 (demo): find a copy of the Iliad to read at UW
*grouping editions, when to just go with the representative edition and when to look at other editions
(e.g. maybe want a newer copy or one at UW or one checked in etc.)
Scenario 4 (students): find a copy of On the origin of species to read at UW
Scenario 5 (demo): find the following article
Dennis, Carina. Australian scientists protest at loss of funding board. Nature Vol. 436, no. 7050 (July 28
2005), p. 451.
*need to search the journal title not the article title
*online link direct from results list
*dealing with SFX when more than one provider
*how to get to the volume
Scenario 6 (students): find the following article
White, R.G. and F.D. Sack. Actin Microfilaments in Presumptive Statocytes of Root Caps and Coleoptiles.
American journal of botany Vol. 77, no. 1 (Jan. 1990), p. 17-26.
Scenario 7 (demo): do we have McGill law journal online?
*found in Primo as print, but link on e-journals at top of page
Scenario 8 (demo): too many hits! How can we refine the search? E.g. you need books about Napoleon
*using the facets
Scenario 9 (demo): go back to scenario 1 and talk about actually getting the book
2. Primo Extras: e-shelf, export, alerts, tagging
E-shelf , export and alerts: Go back to a scenario we’ve already done and build on it?
Tagging ideas:
 Use instead of e-shelf for a course or project
 Add subjects words that make sense to you
 Add course codes for shared projects
Your library account: show while in e-shelf
3. What if you don’t find what you are looking for?
Watch for did you mean…
Check the “may we suggest…” section
Try an advanced search (use art history as example)
Art history
in the title
Date
last 5 years
Language
English
Location
Waterloo
(415 vs. 11,000 results!)
Maybe it isn’t in Primo at all: RACER
Journal? Check the A-Z list