Satakunta University of Applied Sciences
Tyrni Online Catalogue Quick Reference

www.samk.fi/library/tyrni

From the online catalogue you may search material, renew your loans and place holds. You can search for records using Basic, Advanced, Subject or Author search.

BASIC SEARCH

You can use Basic search if you know the author, title or subject or if you have some idea of what you need.

Within field:

Keyword anywhere

• the system searches keywords from every field
• use a question mark (?) for truncation
• use quotes to search phrases

Author

• last name first

Title or Journal title

• enter the title or just how much you know from the beginning of the title

Subject or Subject browse

• searches subject fields

ISBN/ISSN/Standard number

• search a title with ISBN/ISSN/Standard number

Boolean search (and/or/not)

• use operators AND, OR, NOT to combine search terms
• use opening and closing parentheses to group search terms
• use a question mark (?) for truncation
• use quotes to search phrases

ADVANCED SEARCH

• You can use Advanced search to find records using one or more keywords located anywhere in a record, or only in specific fields.
• Type in the search terms you want to find in the Search field. Punctuation and case are ignored. Use a question mark (?) for truncation.
• Select from the Within drop-down list in which fields you want to find your terms.
• Select from the second drop-down list whether you want to search for all the search terms, any of the search terms, or as a phrase.
• Select which Boolean operator is applied to the next search terms: AND, OR, or NOT.

Narrow your search by further limiting by entering information in the following free text fields and selecting options and boolean operators from the drop down menu as needed. You can direct search terms at different fields. Use year or other limits if needed.

MY ACCOUNT AND RENEWAL

You must login in order to access your customer information, renewal and to place holds. If you are not logged in, the Login window will display when you select "My Account". Enter your library card number, last name and password in the text boxes. If you are logging in for the first time, you must enter the default password "12345". Click Log in. The Customer Information page displays information about charged Items, requests and fines and fees.

You can renew charged items. To renew click in the check box beside the item and then click the Request renewal button.

Requests section informs you if any requested items are available and the location for pickup. Fines and Fees section contains charges for overdue items and other fines and fees.

PLACING HOLDS

NOTE: Placing holds on the Internet is temporarily NOT possible because of a software bug.

You can place holds for items that are charged out. Holds can't be placed for journals. Please contact the library to place a hold for an item available at the library or for a journal.

• Search for a title. Check that there are no items available. Please contact the library to place a hold for an item available at the library.
• Click on "Make a request" and login.
• Click on "Hold".
• Follow the instructions on the request form.

Please note: the pick up location can't be selected. It will be the items' home location.

Possible reasons for failure:
- There are no copies to place a hold for: no copies are checked out or the library location (collection) does not allow holds to be placed.
- You have already borrowed the title.
- You have fines and fees more than allowed or your customer information needs to be updated. Please, contact the library for further information.

After you are finished please click on "Logout".

Please ask the library staff for help, if needed!