Links and Buttons
For best results, use the following links and buttons within MadCat. Avoid your browser's Back button, as results can be unpredictable.
| Links |
| New Search |
Reloads the Search page and allows you to begin a new search |
| Return to Headings |
Displays the headings from your most recent search |
| Return to Titles |
Displays the titles from your most recent search |
| Search History |
Displays a record of searches and allows you to reexecute or edit a previous search |
| UW System Search |
Allows you to search other UW System library catalogs simultaneously |
| New in MadCat |
Allows you to view recently added items |
| Login / Logout |
Allows you to access My MadCat Account or place requests for books and other items |
| My MadCat Account |
Accesses your patron information, including the list of items you have checked out |
| Place Requests |
Allows you to request items that are available, checked out, or renewed (A short video tutorial on Place Requests is .  ) |
| Help |
Displays information about how to search efficiently, place requests, interpret records, and more |
| Exit |
Ends your MadCat session |
| Buttons |
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Displays the previous page (if the button is "grayed out" there are no previous pages to view) |
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Displays the next page (if this button is "grayed out" there are no next pages to view) |
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Enables you to narrow your searches by restricting them to certain years, languages, formats or locations within MadCat |
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Deactivates any limits set earlier in your MadCat session |
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Lists the see references, see also references, broader terms and narrower terms related to the heading you selected from a headings list |
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Title, author, publisher, publication date, and location information appear for each item |
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Subject headings, tables of contents, notes and summaries appear for items when available (in addition to the information that appears in a brief record) |
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Displays item information in MARC coded format (primarily for library staff) |
