1. Welcome to the land of Quad-LINC

2. Quad-LINC is Quad Cities Libraries in Cooperation
Consortium of over 30 online libraries
Includes materials from other libraries that are not online
(e.g. Illini Hospital)
Includes Public, Academic, School, and Special Libraries

3. Why do you need to know Quad-LINC?
It is useful to find materials for assignments
It is useful to find materials for pleasure during breaks
(e.g. a novel, a CD, or a video)

4. What does Quad-LINC provide?
It provides information about materials owned by libraries within
River Bend Library System
Scott County Library System.

5. What types of materials are available?
Books
Videos
CD’s
Cassettes
Magazines
DVD’s
CD ROM’s

6. What information does the Quad-LINC catalog show?
Title
Author
Subjects
Location (i.e. library that owns the material)
Short description of material

7. Where can Quad-LINC be accessed from?
Home
School
The Library
Any computer with an Internet connection

8. Objectives for this lesson
Access Quad-LINC within allotted time
Open browser window
Type in Quad-LINC address correctly
Type in terms in allotted time
Save relevant records in allotted time
Click “Full Record” (validates ability to find possible record)
Click “Save” (validates that record is relevant based on Quad-LINC information
Able to print saved records
Find books using call numbers

9. Now it’s time to show you an example of what you will see using Quad-LINC 

10. Start your Web Browsers!! It’s time to access the Internet
Now click the little

11. Which gives you the opening screen
Note: this is the opening screen for the instructor’s computer. You will see whatever the opening screen is on your computer.

12. Now it’s time to type the address for Quad-LINC as shown
which gives you this screen, then you click on the icon “Welcome to QuadLINC”

13. Now you click on the Guest Login icon

14. Now you click All Quad-LINC Libraries

15. Now you would type in the words Transcultural Nursing in the box labeled Search for just like this.
Then press the Enter Key

16. Now you would find a relevant book
Now you would find a relevant book. The first one looks good  So you click

17. Two views of the Full Record
This book looks relevant
for your needs, and it’s in the Trinity library
even better 
So you click

18. Now you click

19. Which returns you to the list of books from your search

20. Do you want more books?
If so, you can repeat the steps we’ve been through
If not, you can continue to print your list of books .

21. Let’s say you’ve found enough. Now you click

22. Now you click

23. Now you click
This will print your list of books to the printer

24. Now you click
Return to Marked Records

25. Now you click

26. Now you click Logoff to end your session. Which returns you to

27. The opening screen of Quad-LINC

28. Now locate the call number on your printout
An example
Location/Call Number:
TRINITY MEDICAL WY107 L531t 2002 Non-Circ

29. Now find your book(s) on the shelf

30. Do the books fit your need?

31. If so, terrific. You’ve done it
If so, terrific!! You’ve done it. If not, it’s back to the beginning to try again

32. Or… You can ask a librarian for help

33. Are you ready to try on your own?
Pick a topic
and see how you do 