To conserve user licenses, much of the OPAL catalog is protected from web crawlers, such as Google or Bing.  However, the Search pages are exposed and as a result your students can find your particular library’s search page with the simplest of searches, such as “Wilberforce catalog” or “Mount Carmel catalog.”   Spread the word–the catalog is easy to find!

You can create hierarchies of search criteria by grouping your search terms. After you have specified three or more rows of search terms - follow these steps:

1. Select the rows to group by highlighting multiple rows with your cursor. (You must select at least two rows to create a group) Terms that belong to a group must be adjacent.

2. Choose the “Group” button and Millennium will place paraentheses around the search terms you selected.

To “ungroup” your terms - highlight the grouped rows and choose the “Ungroup” button. Millennium will remove the paraentheses around the search terms.

Have you ever had a large review file that you’d like to break down to 3,000 or 5,000 records at a time? To pull a subset of records from a larger list, take the following steps:

• Highlight an empty review file that handles only 3 or 5,000 records
• Click on “Search Records”
• Choose your record type
• Switch from “Range” to “Review”
• Select your larger review file from the list
• Click on “Search”

The system will pull the first 3 or 5,000 records into the new list. They will remain in the larger list until you remove them. You may do so by highlighting the appropriate amount and clicking the “Remove” button at the top of your original list. You will then be ready to repeat the process and extract the next batch.

Have you ever made a mistake while editing a record and didn’t know how to fix it? Following are two easy shortcuts that will help. To UNDO your last action (you can cancel up to ten of your last editing actions):

Hold down the “CTRL” button and the “z” key
OR
Under “Edit” choose “Undo”

And to really confuse you - you can always REDO your most recent UNDO (you can cancel up to ten of your last “undo” actions):

Hold down the “CTRL” button and the “y” key.
OR
Under “Edit” choose “Redo”

But never fear - if all else fails just say “NO” when you close the record and the system asks if you want to save your changes!

To obtain a list of all the items associated with course reserves, take the following steps:

• Collect all your course records into a review file by searching for the location code associated with your institution. The criteria used to generate this list is: COURSE LOCATION between “xx” and “xxzzz”.
• You can work on this list by opening the Course record and then clicking on “Summary”. This will take you to the item in the list.

You may also choose to go into telnet and generate a list of all items associated with the course records from that review file.

To do so:

• Launch telnet and key C > C > Z.
• Key “y” to use a review file and select your review file from the list.

Additional info regarding this process may be found here:

Printing Reserve Lists