Reference at Newman Library

How to Browse by Author or Subject or Call Number in OneSearch

In my last OneSearch tip on the blog, I focused on how to browse by title in the catalog and OneSearch. In the catalog, there are of course other browse options we tend to use a lot, such as browse by author, by LC subject heading, by LC call number:

Browsing options in the catalog

In OneSearch, you have all these options, too. Just go to the BROWSE mode and click the dropdown menu to pick what you want to browse by:

Browsing in OneSearch

A caveat about title browse in OneSearch applies here as well for the other kinds of OneSearch browsing. When you use the browse function in OneSearch, the books you find will be almost exclusively print books. What you are browsing in OneSearch are just the records that we’ve carried over from the catalog. In OneSearch, we represent our ebook titles not from catalog records but instead from records in ebook collections that Ex Libris (the vendor behind OneSearch) gets directly from the vendors of the ebook platforms we subscribe to (such as Ebook Central from ProQuest).