The on-line catalogue manual of the
Galgóczi Erzsébet City Library
The on-line catalogue is available on the website of the library: www.gevk.hu
If you wish to check the reading materials of the library, please browse the catalogue or use the "Search" and/or "Quick Search" option(s).
Browsing
This option is available, if you click on the Browsing button. This search mode is usually used, when you do not exactly know the features of the reading material you are looking for, and/or you have only partial information on it. In this case, the programme looks for inexact matches, and it rather lists results that stand the closest to the search definition.
Browsing can be completed in accordance with various aspects, and it can be started by clicking on the desired definition.
The list displayed this way can be viewed, and by clicking on the appropriate definition, you can check the results connected to it.
The elements of the browsing list can be inserted into the search window by clicking on the 
sign.
Search mode
This option is available, if you click on the Search button. You can choose, based on which feature of the desired reading material you wish to search, and you must specify the definition to be searched and/or the connection between more definitions if this is the case. If you click on the down arrow, you can shift the field titles shown as default set-up on the search window.
Wildcard characters (truncating, masking)
Wildcard characters can be used in the search term (marked: *). Truncating can substitute any number of characters, but at least 3 characters must be entered (e.g.: muh* ). Masking (marked: ?) can substitute and stand for any single character. For example:
Small and capital letters are equivalent in the search mode the same way as the short and long diacritic marks of the umlauts are (e.g.: "Malmö" and "Malmõ" gives the same amount of results, but "Malmo" would not). You can use the ordinary AND, OR, NO logic operations among the definitions.
The number of results to be shown on one page can be set up.
If you click on the 
button, you can start searching in the catalogue, and if you click on the 
button, you can delete the search mode definitions inserted in the search window.
The previous searches giving results are shown numbered in the "Previous Searches" window. (If you do not use it for thirty minutes, the programme will omit this option.)
If you wish to redo a search, or you need to expand and/or focus a search, you should click on it again, and the programme will retype it in the search window.
Quick Search
It is recommended to use the "Quick Search" mode, if you do not need explicit search. Wildcard characters can be applied here as well, and you can type in more words to the title, of which connection the programme will interpret as an AND logic operation.
Showing results
The results operate as links. The more explicit description of the items shown as results, as well as the results of the search mode can be viewed, if you click on the title. The bibliographical description of the defined reading material is shown in a titled format in the default set-up, but you can also choose the MARC format. The "Stock Data" chart shows how many copies of the given reading materials are available in the library and what lending status they have.
Moving between the pages
- one page back
- one page forward
- click on list
Highlighting items / deleting highlights for export / set operation
All or part of the results can be exported and/or saved for the following set operations. : Highlighting can be done as follows:
- individually, by clicking in the box in front of the title
- highlighting results on a full page
- highlighting all of the results
- termination of the highlight of results on a full page
- termination of the highlight of all results
- saving highlighted results for set operations
Export
The highlighted items can be exported in order to load them into other databases (MARC format) or into text format by clicking on the „Kijelölt rekordok exportja” ("Exporting highlighted records") button. Options:
By formats
- Readable
- MARC (applied in library application)
The following can be found in the readable format:
- Record format: Simple/Explicit (suits the view shown)
- File format: Printable (PDF) / RTF / Text
- Character coding: ISO- 8859-2 / ISO-8859-1 / UTF-8 / CP852
- Save: send in letter / save into file
Sets
Sets can be formed only if you highlight the items on the list of results. Sets can be titled, they can be combined, and items can be highlighted from the sets.
Options:
- New set (If you give the title, you can make a new set. As long as no other set is defined, the results of the searches are stored in the last defined one.)
- Rename set (modification of the existing name)
- Shift of actual set (moving between sets)
- Set operations (third set can be made as a consequence of operations between two sets – merger, segment, difference )
- Delete set (sets made can be deleted individually – if you finished your search, it is expedient to delete it)
Password functions – Own OPAC
You can check your own data, book lending and borrowings, and you can request for the prolongation of the lending term, you can make appointments and send messages to the librarians. In order to reach these functions, you must supply your identification (the bar code of your Reader’s Pass) and password to log in through the "Reader’s Access" section in the upper right hand corner of the page. The bar code and the password are basically identical, while the latter one can be changed. If you have forgotten your own password, please ask for our librarian’s help!
Personal data: the correctness of your personal data and the validity of your registration can be checked. The password can be changed.
Book lending and borrowing: you can check the copies of reading materials you have borrowed, as well as your dues. If you click on the "Prolongation" button, you can prolong the lending term of the reading materials you have borrowed three (3) days prior to the expiry of the lending term.
Appointments: you can view the list of existing appointments. You can also check the title / copy of the reading material appointed, the date of appointment and/or of the expiry of appointment, and your number on the appointment list (in other words: how many appointments are ahead of yours in concern to the reading material you want to borrow).
Appointments can be made in three (3) ways:
- By title of the reading material (identification title), if all of the editions and all of the copies of the particular book / reading material is listed in the same library (Galgóczi Erzsébet City Library).
- By edition of the reading material (by title); in other words, by the particular edition of the particular reading material, if all of the copies of such edition (2005) are listed in the same library, i.e. in the Galgóczi Erzsébet City Library, or you need only one specific edition (e.g.: a specialized book for your university studies).
- By copy of the reading material, if the specific edition of the book / reading material searched for is available in any of the branch libraries, and you need only the central copies (Galgóczi Erzsébet City Library).
The copies of the specific book / reading material are shown in the search and browsing modes.
| Copy identification | Warehouse index | Library | Classification | Status | Expiry of lending |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00016452 | H 74 | Galgóczi Erzsébet City Library | lendable | lent | 16 Jan. 2008 |
| 376641 | H 74 | GECL Szentiván Branch Library | lendable | available | -- |
IMPORTANT! YOU CAN MAKE APPOINTMENTS ONLY IN CONCERN TO COPIES OF READING MATERIALS AVAILABLE AT THE GALGÓCZI ERZSÉBET CITY LIBRARY, i.e. THE CENTRAL LIBRARY! CONSIDERING THE ABOVE AS AN EXAMPLE, IF YOU CLICK ON THE "APPOINTMENT" BUTTON, YOU CAN MAKE AN APPOINTMENT IN CONCERN TO THE DOCUMENT COPY NUMBERED 00016452! (Computer assisted book lending and borrowing services will be available at the branch libraries later on, but all documents stored there are also available in the document catalogue. If you need any document stored at any of the branch libraries, please do not hesitate to request for our librarians’ assistance!)
Appointments can be made in concern to one (1) document of the media archives, eight (8) books, and four (4) lendable periodicals at a time. The validity term of appointments is twelve (12) weeks. No appointment can be made for available documents! Under no circumstances can you make any appointment, if your book lending term has expired! Only our librarians are authorized to call off appointments, after you have confirmed such request via OPAC messages, or by telephone, or personally!
Messages: You can send messages to our librarians, and you can check the librarians’ answers here. More themes can be opened; all comments to a particular theme can be viewed at the same time. The typical use of this function: information on the function of the library, and requests for new books / reading materials.