Search tips: Searching for Videos in PITTCat
Keyword Search Tips
- Start at the Keyword search screen.
- Click on the Set Search Limits button and choose Videorecording from the Medium column. Click the Set Limits button. This will take you back to the Keyword search screen. Type your search terms in the top Search for box. In the drop-down menu, choose how you want the terms to be searched (any of these, all of these, as a phrase). Next, in the Search by drop-down menu select whether you want to search the full record (Keyword Anywhere) or selected fields (Title, Author Name, etc). Then click the Search button.
- To view summaries/abstracts of videotapes, select the Long Record option.
Example: Type the terms adjustment adaptation, select any of these and choose Subject in the Search by box. This will retrieve all videos which are about psychological adaptation, but which might be described by using either term (for example, Adjustment (Psychology) or Adaptation, Psychological).
- If you wish to search for videos in a specific library, click on the Set Search Limits button. Choose Videorecording from the Medium column, and the preferred collection from the Location column. Click the Set Limits button. Then, type your search terms.
Example: To retrieve all videos in the WPIC collection about behavior disorders in children, limit search to Videorecording and WPIC Library, type terms behavior disorder? child?, search for all of these, and choose Subject in the Search by box (Note: the question mark is a truncation symbol in PITTCat)
Author/Title/Subject Search Tips
- Beginning at the Author/Title/Subject screen, you can choose limit(s) as described above and perform a Title, Journal Title, Publication Date or Advanced Search.
Example: To retrieve all videos in the Falk Library that were published in 2002, limit search to Videorecording and Falk Library, then Search for 2002 and Search by Publication Date
- Limits do not apply to Author, Subject and Call Number searches.
- Have you ever wanted to view the full list of videos available in WPIC Library? You can!.
Examples: From the Author/Title/Subject search screen, limit search to Videorecording and WPIC Library, as described above, and perform an Advanced Search for the term video? OR from the Keyword search screen, limit search to Videorecording and WPIC Library, and Search by Keyword Anywhere for the term video?.
- You can re-sort this list by title, author or publication date using the choices from the drop-down list of the Sort by box on each search result screen.
- In fact, you can also “produce” video lists for the Falk and UPMC Shadyside collections using the same strategy.
- To view summaries/abstracts of videotapes, select the Long Record option.
--HSLS Catalogers
