Books & Videos!!!
Not only have we acquired a collection of books, we also have an
electronic Card Catalogue. We're always looking for new ideas and ways to
present our collection, especially if you would like to be part of the digital
revolution. Please e-mail
your comments and your desire to join us in keeping up the Parish Library. Lois
Shellworth is the librarian.
Welcome to the St. Denis Parish Library's Electronic Card Catalogues!
If you want to go directly to our Card
Catalogues on the Internet, here are the links:
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Introduction
Through the generosity of our parishioners, we have been able to start a collection of books and videos. Many of the books in our library have been used in our discussion groups; most of the videos have been used in our Religious Education programs.
We have both a title and author
catalogue for you to browse through. In addition, we've tried to
determine the age-suitability for each item, especially important for the
videos which we've found that kids just love to watch. We encourage you
to write a review of any book or video you may borrow and e-mail it; we'll put in our
database and it will become part of our Card Catalogues.
We want our parishioners to use
our collection. Some of it is housed in the Library in our Parish Center
We ask that you be considerate of your fellow parishioners and return books within 3 weeks, Religious Ed videos with a week. Our collection is growing. So come back and visit us often; we might have added what you are looking for. Finally, regarding our children's videos, unfortunately we haven't been able to catalogue them as of yet. (Perhaps you might want to help?) So they're not quite ready to be loaned out. Just as soon as that is done, we'll let everyone know who expressed an interest in borrowing them.
let's get started . . .
Remember, our Card Catalogue is housed in a genuine, full-fledged database, so
the buttons will be a little different. We have tried to make it simple
for you to use. Here are a couple of pointers to remember:
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always start out in a Table View in either the title or author card catalogue. It
presents up to 25 items in a table, with columns containing title, author,
subject, and book/video information. |
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By
clicking on the underlined number to the left of an item in Table View, the Form View is displayed. The
Form View contains additional information on this item, such as
age-suitability, a review (if available), and whether or not it is checked
out. |
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Clicking
on the Home link in the database
brings you back to this page. |
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You
must return back to this page to change from the Title Catalogue to
the Author Catalogue, and vice-versa. |
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Both
Catalogues contain the same information--just the presentation is different. |
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When
doing a Search, we recommend changing Type
from "begins with" to "contains". |
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Here are our Card Catalogues:Items
in the Title Catalogue are always sorted by Title, with all
books coming before any videos. Items in the Author's Catalogue are always sorted by the Author's last name. And if there is more than one author, the item listed under each author's last name. Again, all books come before any videos. Should you want to look at only videos (or books, or for a particular author, or just about anything else), simply do a Search and specify what you want. The results of your search are returned in Table View sorted appropriately. St. Denis
Parish Phone: (650)
854-5976 Fax: (650) 854-3754 |
