Limit Your Search of the Library Catalogue
There are 2 ways to limit a search:
If using a Keyword Search it is possible to pre-limit using the following options.
Otherwise,
the list of items located by your search, can be post-limited by using 
Simultaneous, multiple limits may be used.
Limiting by location of item:
Use the pulldown menu to limit your search to a particular campus and collection.
For example, select Bendigo Short Loan (to limit your search to Bendigo high use materials) or Bundoora AV (to limit your search to non book materials at Bundoora).
Limiting by material type (eg. videos, computer files):
Choose this option to restrict your keyword search to non-book or special materials (such as videos, audio lectures, theses, maps, kits, music scores, etc.)
Use the pulldown menu and select the appropriate material type.
Limiting by language:
Use the pulldown menu and select the appropriate language.
NB: the language codes have only been entered for books acquired in the past few years and for Spanish, Portuguese and Chinese language items. Therefore, this option may have limited use for older books or those in languages other than those listed above. Problems may also exist when limiting to English language materials.
Limiting to books or serials (eg, periodicals, journals):
The Library uses the terms serials, periodicals and journals interchangeably - they are all publications that come out periodically with no fixed final (end) publication date. For example:
- Albury-Wodonga - A-W Journals
- Bendigo - Bendigo Periodicals
- Bundoora - Bundoora Serials
There are two ways a catalogue search can be limited to journal titles:
- From the Book/Serial pulldown menu select Serial
OR
- Type a Keyword (e.g., Anthropology) and include the word Periodicals as a search term (NB: this will give a more general list).
Limiting by year of publication:
This limit option is very useful if you need to find recent books.
For example, if you wanted to retrieve books published in the last 5 years, type 1997 in the After box and leave the Before box blank.
To find books published between 1970 and 1980, type 1969 in the After box and 1981 in the Before box. See also Search and Sort.
Sort results by year, alphabetically or by relevance:
To see all your titles with the most recent materials first:
in Keyword search, from the Search and Sort options, select Date
in Limit your Search, select the Sort Results by Year box.
The relevance option will order your results so that those with more occurrences of your keyword, or your keyword in the title, will be higher in the list.
An alphabetical list (by title of the item) is the default.
Having problems?
If you want any further help in using the Library's resources, contact the Information Desk at your campus library.