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Reading catalog records

As you can see below, a record in the catalog contains a lot of useful information:


catalog record


It contains information about the author, title and publisher info:


catalog record


location, call number and availability, or status, of the item:


catalog record


and subject information about the item:


catalog record


This subject information can be very helpful to you as you search for items in the library. In addition to giving you an idea of the content of the book you are looking at, this information can provide additional ways to search.

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