How to Find Videorecordings
Using CLIO
| General
Information |
| Title Search |
Author Search
|Subject Search |
| Foreign Film Titles |
Keyword Search |
DVD's |
General Information
The purpose of this guide is to provide examples of the various
ways to search for visual formats using CLIO. Videorecordings,
laserdiscs and DVD's (digital versatile discs) held in the
Butler Media collection are catalogued in CLIO and searchable by
title, author and subject.
IMPORTANT: CLIO is available in two versions,
Telnet and Web. If you choose to work with the telnet version,
enter the searches as illustrated below. If you select to work with
the Web version, select the search type by clicking on one of the
options listed and enter the TERMS ONLY in the search box.
- Titles with the location Butler Media circulate
overnight.
- Titles with the location Butler-Media Reserves circulate for
one week to officers and PhD students with semester loan
privileges.
- The Butler Media collection circulates from the Butler
Reserves Desk, 208 Butler Library.
Title Search
If you know the title of the film you are looking for, enter a
title search. Search results will either take you directly to the
bibliographic record that matches the title search or retrieve a
listing of title matches. If the film is owned by the library, the
title will be followed by the word < visual >. Select the
entry to see the full bibliographic record and the item's
location and call number. Example:
t=sunset boulevard
Author Search
If you are looking for works by a specific director, producer or
screenwriter, enter an author search.
Example: a=wilder,
billy
Subject Search
Film formats are assigned subject headings, similar to books. If
you are looking for works in a particular genre or on a topical
subject, enter a subject search. The following are examples of
subject headings frequently used in cataloging videorecordings,
laserdiscs and DVD's.
feature films |
comedy films | documentary films | biographical films | gangster
films | war films | |foreign films|
Example: s=feature
films For additional subject headings, see
the Library of Congress Subject Headings, copies
of which are in Butler Reference and other reference departments
within Columbia University Libraries.
Foreign Film Titles
Subject searching also allows you to retrieve listings of foreign
film titles. If you are interested in seeing a list of Spanish
films held in the collection, try
s=motion pictures,
spanish. For French films, try
s=motion pictures,
french. You can also limit language by using
keyword search. If you are interested in seeing a list of Spanish
language films, try a keyword search
k=f.fmt. spa.la.
Keyword Search
Keyword searching is useful for identifying visual formats in
CLIO. Use keyword to perform the following.
Limit by format.
- Using a keyword search, you can limit by format. You can
limit a search to retrieve only book titles, or serial titles,
music and sound and film formats. To limit to film formats, use
f.fmt. Example: To
locate films featuring Gregory Peck,
try k=gregory peck
f.fmt.
Link terms
- Use keyword to link terms from different parts of a record,
such as an author, screenwriter or director's name with a
word from a film title or a subject heading. Example: To locate
the film entitled Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
based on the play written by Edward Albee try,
k=albee.au. virginia.ti.
f.fmt.
Search LON view
- Look for a word or combination of words anywhere in a record,
not just in the author, title, subject or call number fields.
This is useful for identifying actors and their films. Actors are
usually credited in note fields located in the long view of the
CLIO record and are not searchable by author. Use keyword and
check the long view by typing lon. Example: To locate feature
films starring Robert De Niro
try,k=de niro feature films or k=de
niro f.fmt.
Display list of DVD titles
- If you would like to see a list of DVD titles, try
k=dvd.
If you would like to see films directed by Martin Scorsese on
DVD try, k=scorsese.au.
dvd
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