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3.1 Online Catalog -- The Sextant

While an OPAC (online-public-access-catalog) is often associated with a search for books, the Luce Library catalog --called the Sextant -- also includes information about our collection of print magazines and journals, historical collections, maps, videorecordings, and more.

Each item has its own record, which includes all the identifying information about that item. Most of the fields in each record are indexed and searchable.

Here is a sample of a catalog record for a print book in the Sextant:

Sextant Record

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Contents - Module 3
  3.1 Online Catalog - The Sextant
  3.2 Catalog Searching Basics
  3.3 Sextant Keyword Searching
  3.4 Results List
  3.5 Subject Headings
  3.6 Boolean Operators
  3.7 Narrowing Your Results
  3.8 Expanding Your Results
  3.9 Using Truncation
More than Books...
  The Sextant includes information about our collection of print magazines and journals, historical collections, maps, videorecordings, and more

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