Library Home Page Search Bar: It Doesn't Work Like Google!

Have you ever tried to use the search bar located at libraries.uta.edu and wonder why you are not able to find what you need? That is because this search bar is best used for those items you already have some information about and are trying to locate the actual item in our systems. The search engine on the libraries' home page does not have natural language processing like Google. Instead, it relies on simple keywords or some known attribute of the item you are attempting to locate.

The search bar on the home page is called the library catalog. It is simply a database that centralizes the attributes of items that we own so that our users can find them. There are many ways to use this search bar. We recommend clicking on the "Advanced Search" link to access all of the search options available to you within the library catalog search function.

The video below will walk you through how to use the library catalog search bar more efficiently.