Introduction

Basic Search

Advanced Search Options

• Keyword search
  
• Call number search
• Browse search
• Search only electronic books
• Search only videos

Search Results

• Category analysis (coming soon)
• Copy status
• Cross reference
• Full details
• Printing, e-mailing or viewing
• View options

Navigation

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Search Tips

• Searching for Authors
• Searching for Titles
• Searching for Periodical Titles
• Searching for Subjects
• Precise phrase searching
• Substitution and truncation
• Operators
• Operator precedence
• Nesting
• Stopwords
• Standard entry tags
• Searching numbers in a list
• Special characters

Glossary

Help with Acorn

Advanced search options: Call number search

An item's call number is a code which identifies both the item's subject and its shelf position. This type of search will retrieve a browse list of call numbers close to the term you entered, as well as the title and author for each call number displayed.

• Go to Advanced Search Options and select Call Number Search
  
  
• Type all or the first part of a call number.
  
  
• Select library. Browsing call numbers across all libraries is not possible.
  
  Selecting VUPROCESS browses materials that are on order or being processed. VUCENTERS browses the collections of departmental libraries such as the Margaret Cuninggim Women's Center Library. Items in the INTERNET library include both paid electronic subscriptions and freely accessible Internet resources that have been selected for inclusion by Vanderbilt librarians.
  
  
• Select shelving scheme. Most items will have one of the following shelving schemes:
  
  

  Shelving scheme:	is primarily used by:	to organize these materials:
  LC	all libraries	books, serials
  ALPHANUM	all libraries	CDs, CD-ROMs, microforms, videos, other audio and video materials
  SUDOC	Central, Law	US government publications
  NLM	Biomedical	books

• Set other limits as desired. Successful use of these limits requires specialized knowledge of how Acorn records are coded. If in doubt, retain the default setting (ANY).

Sample call number searches: