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- Resource Sharing
- November 2006
- Issue: 207
Searching the Request Manger in WorldCat Resource Sharing
Here are some reminders that may help you to retrieve ILL requests from the Request Manager in WorldCat Resource Sharing:
Searching is by exact match on the field. Searches must contain all characters, spaces, punctuation, and initial articles (a, an, the).
Wild card searching is recommended for any author, title, or patron name search.
Request searching is not case-sensitive.
Author/Title searching is obsolete.
Review Number searching is obsolete, since all requests now share the same numbering scheme.
Keyword searching of requests has not been implemented (but may be a future enhancement).
Search |
Search Type |
Notes/Example searches |
| Author | Wild card match | Enter the author’s name the same way you believe it is stored in the case insensitive database; include punctuation but ignore leading and trailing spaces. |
| rob* Will retrieve: Robert Ludlum Robert James Waller Robin McKinley |
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| Will not retrieve: McKinley, Robin Ludlum, Robert |
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| Author/Title | Obsolete | |
| Borrowing Library | Exact match,case insensitive | Enter the institution symbolto list requests from a particular institution. |
| Enter your *own* institution symbol in order to retrieve all your requests with you as the borrower (note: replaces the ‘lending library: ?’ search). |
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| Call Number | Wild card match, case insensitive | Enter the call number of the item in the request you want to retrieve. |
| Lending Library | Exact match, case insensitive | Enter the institution symbol to list requests from a particular institution. |
| Enter your *own* institution symbol in order to retrieve all your requests with you as the lending (note: replaces the ‘borrowing library: ?’ search). |
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| Patron Department | Wild card match, case insensitive | Enter the department of the patron in the request you want to retrieve. |
| Medical * Will retrieve: Medical Department |
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| medic* Will retrieve: Medical Medical Department Medicine |
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| Patron Identifier | Exact match, case insensitive | Enter the ID number of the patron in the request you want to retrieve |