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Specialty Searching
Here are tips for finding material by location, language, genre, material type, and call number.
- limit by location (branch)
- Non-English language books
- Fiction and film by genre
- by call number
- Other types of materials:
Children's
Young Adult
Large Print books
NetLibrary ebooks
Audiobooks
Downloadable audiobooks
Videos
Foreign films by language
Music CDs
By location (i.e., branch)
In the first search box enter your author, title, keyword, etc.
In the second search box, select the location. Your results will be limited to holdings at that location.
You may request materials from any location and have them delivered for your pickup to any other location.
Non-English language books
You can browse through the library's holdings of items in a non-English language.
Enter the abbreviation of the language you want and do a call number search.
| LANGUAGE | CALL # TO SEARCH |
|---|---|
| Haitian Creole | CR |
| French | FR |
| German | GR |
| Italian | IT |
| Spanish | SP |
You will get results with call numbers. All of the results will be materials in the language you entered.
NOTE: For Spanish only, you can use any type of search (author, title, subject, etc.), then select "Spanish" from the second drop-down menu.
Enter both the language abbreviation plus abbreviations for types of materials to get more precise results. For example, FR plus FIC gets all the French language fiction.
See below for abbreviations of types of materials.
Fiction and film by genre
Genres are special subject headings for types of fiction and of films. Genre headings help identify materials in your area of reading and viewing interest.
Search for the most popular genres at the Collier County Public Library by entering a heading (from the list below) as a Subject search.
NOTE: You will get hundreds, even thousands, of titles! Use SORT and REVERSE YEAR to display titles by most recent year of publication/production.
What to enter as a Subject search:
| for FICTION | for FILMS |
|---|---|
Adventure fiction |
Adventure films |
Call number
Select "call number" in the catalog search and enter the following abbreviation. All call numbers beginning with the abbreviation will display.
| ABBREVIATION | TYPE OF MATERIAL |
|---|---|
| B | Biography (shelved in Biography collection) |
| CAS | audio cassette |
| CD | compact disc (audiobook) |
| CD-MUSIC | compact disc (music) |
| CD-ROM | computer software |
| CR | Haitian Creole language materials |
| DVD | Digital Video Disc |
| E | Picture book (Juvenile collection) |
| EASY READER | Easy reader (juvenile collection) |
| FIC | Fiction (shelved in Fiction collection) |
| FLA | Florida collection |
| FR | French language materials |
| GR | German language materials |
| IT | Italian language materials |
| J | Juvenile |
| LANG CAS or LANG CD | Language learning (audio) |
| MYS | Mystery (shelved near Fiction) |
| PBK | Paperback (on wire racks) |
| Q | Queen (oversize) book, over 32 cm. |
| REF | Reference or Ready Reference |
| SCIF | Science fiction (shelved near Fiction) |
| SP | Spanish language materials |
| SS | Short stories, multiple authors (shelved near Fiction) |
| VC | Video cassette (VHS) |
| WES | Western (shelved near Fiction) |
| YA | Young Adult |
OTHER TYPES OF MATERIALS
Children's materials
In the first search box enter your author, title, keyword, etc.
In the second search box, select Juvenile collection.
Types of materials for children's have call numbers that help you identify reading and interest levels.
For pre-school and early readers, call numbers are preceded by EASY READER. For older children, call numbers are preceded by J.
Young adult materials
In the first search box enter your author, title, keyword, etc.
In the second search box, select Young Adult collection.
Types of materials for young adults (roughly ages 13-18) have call umbers that are preceded by YA.
Large print books
All large print or large type books have LP at the beginning of the call number.
Other than coming across large print books when searching,
you can find all large print books in any of three ways:
1) You can search by author, title, subject, etc. and specific Large Print collection;
2) You can enter a call number search for LP, which will return all the large print books in call number order, or
3) You can search by Subject "Large type books" and retrieve and sort all the large print books.
NetLibrary™ ebooks
When you search by author, title, subject, etc. click the checkbox "Limit to NetLibrary ebooks," then search again.
The results will only be NetLibrary ebooks. This is the most direct way to find NetLibrary ebooks, since the collection numbers nearly 30,000 titles, so browsing is almost impossible.
If you only want hardcopy books in your result, use the drop-down menu (which displays "Entire Collection" by default) and select "Books" in addition to searching by author, title, subject, etc. This will limit your results to hardcopy books.
When you search by author, title, subject, etc., select a collection so that your results will only be materials from that collection. For books on cassette and CD, select the collection "Audiobooks." You can also search "Audiobooks" to retrieve and sort all audiobooks on compact disc or cassette.
Downloadable audiobooks & ebooks
Do not use the catalog for finding downloadable media from OverDrive™ but go to our separate
Digital Media Collection web site: http://digitalbooks.collier-lib.org,
Videos
When you search by author (actor, director, producer, etc.), title, subject, etc.,
select a collection so that your results will only be materials from that collection. For videos, select "Videos: DVD and VHS."
Foreign films by language Music CDs
Use advanced search to find foreign films by language. (In this example do not use quote marks - they are used here for clarity only.)
In a "field" section of advanced search, make the field "Subject" and enter as text "foreign films".
Enter a location if you wish. Select "videos" as the material type and highlight the language you want to use.
Press
When you search by author (performer, conductor, etc.), title, subject, etc.,
select a collection so that your results will only be materials from that collection. For music CDs, select the collection "Music CDs."