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Lesson 1
Familiarize Yourself with MNCAT

Lesson 2
Basic MNCAT searching

Lesson 3
Browse searching in MNCAT

Lesson 4
Advanced searching in MNCAT

Lesson 5
Locating Books in the Library

Lesson 6
Evaluating the books you find

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Finding Books
Basic MNCAT searching

*new* Try the Searching for Books tutorial.

You can search MNCAT in several different ways: by author, title, subject and keyword. We're going to focus on keyword searching.

To start, choose the first topic below:

Search strategy

Choosing effective keywords
Choosing effective phrases
Combining keywords to narrow or broaden searches
Using truncation for different forms of keywords

Searching MNCAT

Entering a keyword search in MNCAT
Interpreting MNCAT search results
Finding the books in the library

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