Introduction

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Help with Acorn

Navigation

Use only the Acorn toolbar buttons to navigate.

View Options takes you to the View Options page, where you can change the library holdings that are displayed, change whether full or brief records are displayed, or change the record format display.

Go Back returns the display to the activity screen that immediately precedes the current screen.

Help accesses Acorn's online help.

Print/Email takes you to the Print/Email page, which includes a listing of titles from yourt most recent search that you have chosen to mark for future reference. On the Print/Email page, you can sort item information by author, title, or call number. In addition, you can view, save, e-mail, or print the item record contents.

Limit Search jumps you to the bottom of the Search Results page to the Search Again area. You may limit your original search in a number of ways, including by language or publication year.

Logout logs you out of Acorn and returns you to the Heard Library home page.

New Search returns you to the Basic Search page.

Top returns you to the top of the Acorn window.

Cross Reference displays when a record has cross-references attached to it and if a search term matches an entry in a thesaurus. Select Cross Reference to display a list of terms related to the previous search expression on the Catalog Lookup By Cross Reference page. Select from these terms to continue browsing or searching the catalog.