How To: Find a Video/DVDs….
Video/DVDs are found by searching library catalogs. Understanding this catalog will allow you to more easily use any catalog.
To access the DSU library catalog, you need to first go to the library home page, your gateway for academic research. Do you remember how to do this? From the Library Home Page (http://library.dixie.edu/), select Books & More
In addition, we can search by either keyword or alphabetical browse.
Alphabetical/Browse looks for terms in one part of the records and returns results in alphabetical order (authors' last names, titles, etc.)
Often, searchers will want to limit results to only video presentations of material. Certainly, some topics are best covered in a visual format. To find videos in all formats (DVD or VHS), type in the word and videorecording.
However, to make it even quicker, you can truncate videorecording to videor$ (don’t use video*)
To limit the results of such a search to only DVDs, you can add DVD.
Example: ecology and videor$
Example: ecology and videor$ and DVD.
To find out about one of these items, click on the title.
If you decide one of the video/DVDs might be useful to you, write down the call number and location. The call number is the item's address within the library. You must use the entire call number, not a portion. DVD's can be in a locked case, oversized, AV stacks, or Blu-Ray.