====== Mystic Help ======

===== Searching using the OPAC =====

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In order to search the catalogue using the OPAC, select the **[Search]** menu option from the side bar in the Workspace. Mystic displays a simple text field in which the reader can enter a word or phrase that is required. Either click the **[Search]** button next to this field or just press **[Enter]** on the keyboard to start the search.

Mystic uses the word or phrase as a key to search the catalogue titles, series name, authors, keywords and several other dynamic data fields in the catalogue.

Any catalogue items that are found are displayed as a list below the search field, initially displaying:

  * The Mystic HID (the barcode or accession number) of the item
  * The Title 
  * A date when the item will be returned, if it is already on loan
  * Whether the item is additionally reserved for someone else.
  * The Classification of the item (such as its Dewey code)

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==== Displaying Item Details ====

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To display more details of the item, either **Double-Click** the item line, or click the **[View]** button in the line.

Any data field displayed with an __underline__ represents a field that can be clicked in order to perform a new search on those details - a reader can therefore walk from search to search by clicking fields in item details displays.

As well as the details of the item, the Item Details dialog displays four buttons:

  * **[Previous]** and **[Next]** allows the reader to  display the previous or next item in the results list with our needing to return to the list first.
  * If the reader is permitted and the facility has been turned on within the library, the **[Reserve]** button allows the reader to place a reservation for the item.
  * The **[Close]** button closes the Item Details dialog and return the reader to the list of search results.

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Next: [[PergamonMystic:linkedhelp:borroworreturn|OPAC - Borrow or Return an item (own circulations)]]
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