Help Using Library Resources

This page is devoted to helping you get most out of the many resources offered by the Huntington Public Library.  A virtual tour of our library is provided to help you familiarize yourself with the layout of our facilities and resources across the library's three (3) floor levels.  Step by step tutorials on such subjects as how to use our web and text based card catalog terminals are also provided.  This page is constantly being updated, so check back here often!

Online "Card" Catalog Tutorials
This Library utilizes two different types of electronic card catalog "terminals." One type is text, or "character" based where the user input is done solely through the keyboard -- there is no mouse support. See the Using our Text-based Card Catalog section for detailed written instructions on how to use these types of devices.

Our other type of card catalog is operated via a web browser, and is the focus of the following tutorials. This "web-based" electronic catalog accepts both keyboard and mouse input; uses standard web navigation tools; is capable of displaying graphical content as well as text; and is available online from anywhere on the World Wide Web via our web site's home page.

We now offer two types of tutorials. The tutorial links immediately below are our original slide-show presentations developed from actual screen shots of our web-based online card catalog. The enhanced ViewletBuilder™ tutorials that follow are also developed from actual screen shots, but are animated, self-running and have much smaller download times.

Our Original Tutorials

   Performing a "Basic" and "Limit" Catalog Search

   How to Request an Item from our Collection

   Viewing your Patron Record


Please Note: The relatively large images needed to make the above presentations legible may take a while to download on slower modems. Please be patient.

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Our New Enhanced Tutorials using ViewletBuilder™ Technology

   Performing a "Basic" and "Limit" Catalog Search

   How to Request an Item from our Collection

   Creating Your Patron PIN for the First Time

   How to Self-renew your Checked out Items


Please note: Our ViewletBuilder™ Tutorials are self-running. Once you click on the above links, all you need to do is watch. However, you can use the Tutorial's navigation buttons at any time to pause, play back, or move forwards and backwards through the presentation slide by slide.

The navigation buttons are located along the upper right edge of the viewlet window and look like this:*



* The adjoining button explanations are not indicated on the actual viewlet.

Dewey Decimal Demystified
An Overview of the Dewey Decimal System used at HPL

The Dewey Decimal System puts library materials in numerical order for easy retrieval. Here's a broad listing of those tables with the major subject areas and their corresponding Dewey subject number described. The online text or web-based catalog should be consulted for information on your topic, author or title. The catalog will also give you the location and current status of the item(s).

000	Generalities	500	Pure Sciences
010	Bibliographies	510	Math
020	Library & Information Science	520	Astronomy
030	General Encyclopedias	530	Physics
040	(Not used)	540	Chemistry
050	General Periodicals	550	Earth Science
060	General Organizations & Museums	560	Paleontology
070	Journalism & Publishing	570	Life Sciences
080	Collections	580	Botany
090	Manuscripts and Rare Books	590	Zoology
100	Philosophy	600	Applied Sciences & Technology
110	Metaphysics	610	Medicine
120	Epistemology	620	Engineering
130	Paranormal Phenomena & Occult	630	Agriculture
140	Specific philosophies	640	Home Economics
150	Psychology	650	Management
160	Logic	660	Chemical Technologies
170	Ethics	670	Manufacturing
180	Ancient, Medieval & Oriental Philosophy	680	Application-specific Manufacturing
190	Modern Western Philosophy	690	Building
200	Religion	700	Arts
210	Natural Religion	710	Civic & Landscape Art
220	Bible	720	Architecture
230	Christian Theology	730	Sculpture
240	Christian Moral Theology	740	Drawing
250	Local Church & Religious Orders	750	Painting
260	Social & Ecclesiastical Theology	760	Graphic & Printed Art
270	History & Geography of Church	770	Photography
280	Christian Denominations & Sects	780	Music
290	Non-Christian & Comparative Religion	790	Sports & Recreation
300	Social Sciences	800	Literature
310	Statistics	810	American Literature
320	Political Science	820	English Literature
330	Economics	830	Germanic Literature
340	Law	840	French Literature
350	Public Administration	850	Italian Literature
360	Social Concerns & Services	860	Spanish & Portuguese Literature
370	Education	870	Latin Literature
380	Trade & Commerce	880	Classical Greek Literature
390	Customs, Etiquette, Folklore	890	Literature of Other Languages
400	Languages	900	History & Geography
410	Linguistics	910	Travel & Geography
420	English Language	920	Genealogy & Geography
430	Germanic & Scandinavian Languages	930	Ancient History
440	French	940	European History
450	Italian	950	Asian History
460	Spanish & Portuguese	960	African History
470	Latin	970	North American History
480	Classical Greek	980	South American History
490	Other Languages	990	History of Other Areas