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Ever want to direct someone to the exact tab on the Libraries home page?  Shane points out that you can see the exact url if you hover over the tab. Here they are for your convenience:

Books http://www.lib.umn.edu/#books
Articles and Databases http://www.lib.umn.edu/#articlesanddatabases
Journals http://www.lib.umn.edu/#journals
Courses http://www.lib.umn.edu/#courses
Videos http://www.lib.umn.edu/#video

Links to MNCAT in general also include:

MNCAT Plus http://prime2.oit.umn.edu/primolibrary/libweb/action/search.do?vid=TWINCITIES&fromLogin=true
MNCAT Classic http://umnlib.oit.umn.edu/F/?func=find-b-0&localbase=tcmncat
MNCAT Mobile http://www.lib.umn.edu/mobile

Have you tried to remember or find the MNCAT Classic Command for the Bibliographic Record no. / System ID number and couldn't find it listed anywhere?

This crucial identifying number, which appears at the very end of a MNCAT Classic record, can be searched in either Classic (Command) or in Primo (keyword). Let's say that you copy it from the last line in a MNCAT Classic record, or somebody gives you a Bib record number, also referred to as a  system ID number -- for example, 005918770. Let's say you write this down, and need to look it up later and can't remember or don't have the title, or the title is too short to get the specific record you want, or maybe the book is in Russian, or some other language that seems tricky to type into MNCAT. 

Here's what to do:

• For Classic, use SYS= and you can remove the leading zeros, or leave them in; (SYS= does not have to be in capital letters, either)

• For Primo, you must keep the zeros and stick it right onto umn_aleph

Try it:

in MNCAT Primo        umn_aleph005918770

in MNCAT Classic Command:  
SYS=5918770
SYS=005918770
sys=005918770 or
sys=5918770

Certain  MNCAT records will now include links to HathiTrust, a shared digital repository for collections from over 25 major academic and research libraries. The text of all of these materials in Hathi can be searched and many of them are available in full text. The University of Minnesota is one of the major library partners that have launched HathiTrust Shared Digital Repository through the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC). 
 
The links are shown with a HathiTrust icon.
  For individual volumes, an orange HathiTrust icon means the complete text of the item is available for viewing online.

  A gray HathiTrust icon means that the book is searchable but the actual text is not displayed. In other words, you can use Hathi as a search mechanism to identify page numbers where your search word appears within the actual book. This will help you decide if you want to check out the book from the University Libraries. If there are multiple volumes the link will take you to a HathiTrust page that shows you the availability of the individual volumes.

 

Incidentally, the name Hathi is from the Hindi and Sanskrit word for "elephant".

 

You can also search HathiTrust directly at http://catalog.hathitrust.org/.

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Try it out in MNCAT Plus - here are a few titles we own that are also available or searchable in Hathi:

Examples of titles searchable in Hathi:

• The sun fetcher : poems  by Michael Dennis Browne
  

(note: the word sky appears seven times in this book. Use Hathi to get the page numbers. (Find the book in the library or use the Get It service)

• Graceland : going home with Elvis by Karal Ann Marling

Examples of titles available full text in Hathi:

• The Select poems of Dr. Thomas Dunn English

• The mammals of Minnesota, a scientific and popular account by Herrick

Did You Know?  You can search by call number in MNCAT Classic.
Try it yourself in MNCAT Classic:

(example is Library of Congress call number PS3573.A425 C6 1986, the call number for The Color Purple )

Did You Know?

Did you know that you can search by call number in MNCAT Plus?
Here's how:
Simply enter the call number into the search box. No need to change any settings. Example is PS3573.A425 C6 1986

Try it in MNCAT Plus: