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How to find Graphic Novels

Burn by Simon LeClercQ: Using One Search, how can I find Graphic Novels?

It's true: we do have a lot of graphic novels, as well as comics, and scholarly works about both graphic novels and comics.  Here is a genre search in Discovery which targets graphic novels and comics:

Click here to search for Graphic Novels and Comics in OneSearch

"Burn" by Simon Leclerc is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0

Running a list in Sierra

If you don't run a lot of lists in the ILS, it can be easy to forget how to do it. In the old system, Millennium, there was a button in the left sidebar for "create lists". In Sierra, this is in the "Function" drop-down menu:

screen capture of function drop down menu in Sierra 

 

 

Choosing "CREATE LISTS" will pull up a list of review files. Select an empty review file (see the column marked "status"); click SEARCH RECORDS.

CLASSIC SEARCH -- this looks much like the interface in Millennium. 
ENHANCED SEARCH -- this works like the classic search, but may be more intuitive for those with less experience with the "old way"
JSON -- this allows you to paste in the code of a previously used search -- therefore: if you compose the "perfect search" for something you only have to find once per year, you should save this code to use again as needed.