On-Line Public Access Catalog (OPAC) Manual

Prepared by the Iowa Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (October, 2009)

Table Of Contents:

Using the On-line Public Access Catalog (OPAC)

• Introduction
• In This Manual

  Searching Methods

  • Introduction
  • Media Types
  • Searching By Author
  • Searching By Subject
  • Searching By Word in Title
  • Searching By Title
  • Searching by Narrator

    Working with Search Results

    • Introduction
      • About the Results Page
        • About the Bibliographic Page
          • About the Login to Send Page

          Exercises: Searching the OPAC with JAWS For Windows

          • Introduction
          • Exercise Objectives
          • Exercise: Accessing the OPAC On-line
          • Exercise: Performing an Author Search
          • Exercise: Performing a Search by Subject
          • Exercise: Performing a Title Word Search
          • Exercise: Performing a Title Search
          • Exercise: Performing a Search by Narrator
          • Exercise: Requesting a Book