The Beinecke Rare Book and
Manuscript Library
Cross Collection Search Survival Skills
The Cross Collection Search Page is a search and discovery
tool that reveals digitized images, sound recordings, and video clips that are
part of the collections of material at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript
Library at Yale University.
The Cross Collection Search Page is the starting
point for any search. Two important characteristics of this page are:
- You
can include/exclude specific collections for your search
- You
can search three different ways :
Word search , Phrase search , Image ID search.
Collections are included/excluded by simply
checking/un-checking a checkbox next to the collection name. (In addition to
launching searches against multiple collections from this page, you have the
ability of going directly to the search page of any of the individual
collections that are represented on this page. This is accomplished by clicking
the arrow icon next to the collection name.)
There are currently three different types of searches that
can be performed from this page.
- Word
search: Enter one or more keywords, each separated by a space. Click ANY
to make this an “OR” search; click ALL to make this an “AND”
search. Note that articles and
prepositions are ignored here, and recognized only when imbedded within a
phrase search.
- Phrase
search: Enter any phrase. Note that this search looks for an exact
match on the phrase that you enter.
- Image
ID search: Use this search to retrieve a single item if you already
know the Image ID.
The Cross Collection Search Results Page is returned
if your search found any matches. There can be one or more of these pages. Each
page will contain up to 20 images. A search that returned 100 images will have
5 pages of results. Each image, as well as the page itself, offers the
opportunity to perform several actions.
Each image on this page can be:
- Saved:
The word “Save” appears above each image. Clicking “Save” will add this
image to your “Group”. The Group will persist for as long as you have your
browser open. Entire groups can later be saved or ordered. Note that
cookies need to be enabled for this feature to work.
- Enlarged:
Under each image you will two buttons for enlarging the image, a 4x size
and an 8x size.
- Zoomed:
Many images will also have a Zoom button which will attempt to open a
wavelet compressed image. This image allows for a high degree of
“drill-down” into the image detail. Note that it requires the use of a
browser plug-in program available for download from www.lizardtech.com.
- Expanded:
Clicking on an image will launch a new browser window containing
descriptive detail and an enlarged view of the image. Two actions can be
taken from this page:
- Click
the image to see an even larger view.
- Generate
a “Reference Print” page. Similar to the current page but with a smaller
view of the image.
A Page Navigation tool is located at the top and
bottom of the Cross Collection Search Results Page. This tool simply
allows you to page backward or forward by a single page, or jump to a specific
page number.
There are two buttons at the top of Cross Collection
Search Results Page:
- New
Search: and clicking it will
take you back to the Cross Collection Search Page to begin a new
search.
- My
Group: clicking this button will open up your Image Group page.
You will not have an image group unless you clicked “Save” on at least one
image.
The Image Group page displays all the images that you
previously selected (by clicking “Save” over an image).
You can remove any image from your group by clicking
the word “Remove” under an image.
You can initiate two actions with your group:
- Create
a web page that displays the group. You do this by clicking the
“MakePage” button. You will see that the page that is generated looks very
similar to the Cross Collection Search Results Page except that
there is no “Save” option over the images.
- Order
prints, slides or TIFFs (on CD) of the images in your group. You do this
by clicking the “Order” button. This takes you to the Order Summary
page.