Some questions for the researchers...

• What is Title?
• Do all books have a Title?
• What about Videos, Kits, CDs, Websites, Magazines, Newspapers, Games, etc?
• What is the Title of this book? (With a book in hand...)
• Can a book have more than one Title?
• What is a Sub-Title? (Try to find a book with a sub-title... Teacher Reference is an easy place to find an example)
• Is this a good Title for this book? Why?
• If you wrote this book, would you give it a different Title? Why?
• What is the difference between a Begins with and a Contains search?
• How would you find this resource using a Title Begins with search?
• How could you find this resource with a Title Contains search?
• How do you do a Begins with / Contains search using the computer?
• What about in the Junior Catalogue search (if you have it installed!)
• What about in the Web Catalogue?
• Do you think you could show Mum and Dad how to look up some Titles in the Web Catalogue from home if they would like to see if we have a book?

Doing a Title Begins with Search...

1. Go into the Catalogue (CMEPlus)
2. Click on the Title and Other Searches tab
3. Type in a few letters of the Title you are looking for
4. Click the Title Begins button

Play around with the results until you end up printing a list of looking at the details screen to see if the item is available or not

Doing a Title Contains Search...

1. Go into the Catalogue (CMEPlus)
2. Click on the Title and Other Searches tab
3. Type in a few letters of a word you think is in the Title of the item you want to find
4. Click the Title Contains button

• Again, play around with the results until you end up printing a list of the results or looking at the details screen to see if the item is available or not
• Notice there will be some strange entries if you used a few letters that could be the start of a word or in the middle of a bigger word!

See Using the Results Screen (Resource Lists) for more details about manipulating the list of resources that appears as a result of your search...