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Category: Search Tips
CLIO Tip: Saving Records and Managing Lists
CLIO allows you to select CLIO records and save them to a list. 1. Select the records you wish to save 2. Under “Selected Items…” choose “Add to My Saved List” 3. You will be prompted to log in. 4. A blue banner will confirm that items have been added to your Bookbag, which lists […]
Software Now Findable in CLIO
Software titles available at the Libraries’ Digital Centers were recently added to CLIO along with information about manuals, additional documentation, tutorials, and more: To search for a particular software program, just use the search box at the top of CLIO. The software program will carry a (PC), (Mac), or (Web) designation in the list of […]
How to Exclude Formats from a Search
We are sometimes asked how to exclude formats from a CLIO catalog search. Recently a faculty member was looking for rare books in our special collections, and wished to exclude records for online material. To exclude material with an “online” format: Enter search terms (or leave the box blank to find everything) Select the Format: […]
Create a Customized RSS Feed of New CLIO Titles
Would you like to know when the library adds new titles in your area of interest? Create an RSS feed from any CLIO search using the RSS icon , and add the feed URL to your feed reader or blog. 1. Enter any desired search terms in the CLIO search box. Use the asterisk for […]
Changes to the CLIO Catalog Search
We’ve made two adjustments to the CLIO Catalog search based on feedback from faculty, students and librarians. Stemming has been disabled. Stemming, or lemmatization is a default feature of some SOLR databases. It functions by reducing a word to its “stem” and then adding all possible suffixes. Before the change, a search for Methodism retrieved […]
Search tips for Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Tibetan languages
Our librarians in the Starr East Asian Library have prepared tips for searching the CLIO Catalog in: Chinese Japanese Korean Tibetan These guides are linked from the Catalog guide, and also from the Guides tab. For more detailed information, please consult: Chinese Studies homepage at http://library.columbia.edu/locations/eastasian/chinese.html or ask the Chinese Studies Librarian, Chengzhi Wang (cw2165@columbia.edu) […]
Searching Part or all of a Subject Heading
The subject headings in CLIO Catalog are context sensitive. Where you place your mouse will determine how much of the heading is searched. As you hover your mouse over the heading, text will display what will be included in your search. This allows you to be as specific or general as you wish. The headings […]
Selecting, Emailing, and Saving Records
Release 7.9.1 is the first public release of list-management (one of our most requested features) – both the ability to operate upon a list of items from the search results screen, and the Saved List capability. It is now possible to select multiple items for emailing or saving. The new Bookbag allows items to be […]